Tube Amps vs Sanders ESL Amp for Electrostatics
audiofool1, read this thread where Albert Porter asked a similar question & I did post my thoughts as well.... https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/sanders-10b-electrostatic |
Bombaywalla and Hew, thanks for your comments. I think it would be difficult and costly to find a good tube amp to work successfully with electrostatic speakers. That said in addition to Sanders and Coda high current amps I think there may be a few hybrid amps that make be suitable as well. As it is difficult to audition all the possible available amps, I am relying in part on the advise from my fellow Audiogon members. Thanks for your input. Regards |
A lot depends on the ESL! Sound Labs and older Quads like the ESL57 and ESL63 are good matches with tubes. Martin-Logans are designed (meaning they have a lower impedance but otherwise have an impedance curve typical of ESLs) to work with solid state; all you need to get a tube amp to run them might be a set of ZEROs (www.zeroimpedance.com). We've got customers that have been running our amps (which are zero-feedback OTLs) in this manner quite successfully with MLs for many years. |
