QUAD 57 ESL and SOLID STATE AMPS


I drive my QUAD 57's with VTL's TT 25's. I am interested if anyone has had success using QUAD 57's with solid state amps ?
mikeyaya

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Hey Mikeyaya. I love your Vtl tt's. I wish they were around when I had my 57's, seem like a very synergistic match to my ear. Yes, I have driven the 57's with many amps,both tube and ss. The original Mark Levinson ML2's and the little bedini 25/25 were pure magic on the 57's.I ran stacked 57's for years AKA the Levinson HQD system minus the hartley subs. As a matter of fact,both of those amplifiers were sold to Quad 57 owners and are still being used in their systems today.The bedini was sitting in my closet for as long as I can remember. A local buyer with stacked 57's purchased it so he could mate it with his bedini to drive each panel per amplifier channel. I have a very good friend with a pair of 57's being driven by a old 30 watt advent 300 intergrated and it still mesmerizes me every time I visit. Another local guy has a pair driven by an old classe dr3 and it's truly one of the finest systems I have heard. And to qualify things here, I am a die hard tube amp kind of guy.All the best in your endevour here.