Quicksilver audio silver 88 mono amps

I’m considering buying a set of these from the music room in Erie, Colorado. Does anyone have experience with this amplifier. My McIntosh MC75’s need some work and I’m going to have them refurbished to factory specifications. I want something in the meantime to use in my system. Thanks for your input.

Mike

OK, I first must admit that I have no experience with this amp. But, I will tell you that for fifteen years or so I have been looking to buy a pair of these. Keep in mind that Mike Sanders has discontinued a fair number of his prior products and this is one of them. These amps, more so than the other discontinued models, has quite a fan base if not a minor cult following. If your speakers are suitable-and I assume they are given your Mac75’s, you are going to get great sound. The price, imho, is kind of steep at only $1,000 off of msrp but this dealer (which I have now bookmarked, thanks!) must be factoring in their lack of current production and demand.
Let me put it this way-I would never snipe you-but if you don’t want them, pm me and I will call Erie and try to negotiate for them. Seriously.

Have owned the Silver 88’s for the past 5 years. I have a friend who had them previous to my purchase and still does. There is an issue with two of the electrolytics that I was fore warned by my friend, not if but when they would fail. Well finally 3 years in they failed. Mike Sanders mailed a replacement set which I replaced. Mike offered a long term fix to this problem if I would send the amps to him. Luckily for me, this was remedied by my friend who with Mike’s blessing did a final fix, improvement in the power delivery was significant, an added benefit and surprise! So it was more than just a "fix".

So as to the amps overall performance; I’ve owned ARC, Berning, CJ, Trancendent, and McIntosh tube gear and am familiar with many other esoteric/boutique amps both tube and SS. I’ve listened to the 88s for the past 5 years in my current set-up with the latest 3a DeCapo speakers. "For the money" in the right set-up one can expect reference performance well beyond what you might expect at the price. Also of importance, to me at least, point to point wiring which means long term reliability and flexibility. These are great amps and depending on the speaker might be well worthy of consideration. Amazing resolution about as good as you might ever expect, certainly that is my impression. I can’t say enough about these amps at this price point. Beyond my above comments, all amps are system dependent with a given speaker in a given system so the usual cavaets. Do your homework.

It is nice to see such a well-written note that takes into account the relative nature of this hobby and system matching. Thank you. 
Out of interest, what is entailed with the "final fix"? I gather you are referring to the output caps. Is this correct?
On a different topic, my humble op is that a tube amp's largest limiting factor is the quality of the input and output transformers, particularly the former. That is where this amp likely shines.