Thoughts on mating ML ESL 11 A's to a butler TDB 2250 hybrid amp


Looking at the butler TDB 2250 Amp to drive ML ESL 11 a's kinda settled on the Parasound Halo A21 until was pointed in the Butler direction. Any thoughts? Will be using a Linn Majik DSM as source and pre amp.


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I would personally steer away from tube amplifiers with ML.  While I'm sure those Manley monos are very nice, they explicitly state the optimum speaker impedance is 5 ohm and the output impedance is 0.538 ohm.  The ML panels are very capacitive and the minimum impedance is 0.6 ohm at 20 kHz, so probably not a good match.  If you crave the tube sound I would look at a hybrid design, since you already have your source/pre.  For what its worth I have the predecessor to your ESL11A (Montis).  I power them with Pass INT-150.  I think Pass amplification works well with ML.  I'm sure there are many other (less expensive) alternatives that would work as well.