Quad 989 vs. SoundLab Millennium 2

I own m2's and drive them with audiovalve challanger 180 monoblocks and jeff roland model 6 monoblocks.
My speakers have tordial transformer,impedance mod and copper diffusion ring.
I moved from Dunlavy sc3's to the m2's and have been extremely impressed with them.I have not experienced any reliablity problems or hard failures since I bought them used here on Audiogon over 2 yrs ago.I do not leave them on 24/7 but this is just my preference;it does take a little more than 1 hr to sound their best after powering up but the tube amps do as well.
I play music ranging from Diana Krull,Choir with organ,Eric Clapton and even Pink Floyd performs in my living room;all I can say is they play everything I can throw at them and it is extremely enjoyable.
When I switch to the Roland amps they play very close to the sound of the tubes but I find the tube sound to be a little bit more involving with the music but again probally just a personel preference;I could easily live with the Rolands alone if I had too without regret.
I have never heard a quad speaker so I can not compare the m2 to them;but if you can listen to a soundlab it should be heard.

Ivanj, unless you have a damaged transformer the Wolcott should not be that hard to sort out.

I have in what is my second system, ELS 63's and tried 989's when I was upgrading, and then SoundLabs - chalk and cheese! SoundLabs excelled and surpassed the 989's in every area.
I went on to build my high-end system around a pair of SoundLab U1-Px. These proved a little hard to find the best tube amplifiers to drive them but I got good advice from the Stateside dealers, thanks again Atmasphere.

Scousepasty, uh, sure- I was helpful somehow??

FWIW about 80% of our MA-2s production seem to be running on Sound Labs.

Atmasphere-

A belated thanks for the comment. If I had known your adroitness and willingness I would have sent the amps to you!

I sold the Wolcotts and the Levinson. The Levinson kept crapping out due to thermal shutoff. I had a old carver amp as a backup 200WPC? that worked better than it did. The 432 was the nadir of the Levinson line as I found out later. What a dog.

Now using a Sandersound Magtech amp and I couldn't be happier. I would love to get your amps but you folks are beyond my pay grade, more's the pity.

I now have an Oppo BD-105 handling digital audio. Wonderful, flexible product. I've only used the Ikeda (the real kind with the Decca design) about 50 hours since it was retipped/updated by the late man himself so I am going to sell it and put the Ortofon on the Linn. It's been awhile since I've been on Agon and it is good to be back.