Will rebuilt Quad ESL 57s take the place on a great $30K dynamic speaker?

@mglik    You correctly observe the 57s are missing some punch on gutsy material.  This has always been the case and there is nothing to be done.  Peter Walker conceived them for operation with quieter music such as chamber groups and voices not backed with a big orchestra.  They excel on that.

But on rock and large orchestras on powerful pieces 57s won't satisfy many people.  This kind of issue is why many of us have more than one system.  Horses for courses and you just have to choose which way to go.  It's always a compromise.

useful context and food for thought given this discussion of q57’s... hang in there this is worth the watch, relevance directly to this thread is at 11 minutes in ...

@jjss49

Great video… I appreciated the first topic most… although his comments on the Quads are correct to my memory as well.

Wonderful speakers, I've owned two pairs over the years, the last pair about a year ago.

For my tastes, I could only keep the Quads if I maintained two systems. They're just not suited to about half of what I enjoy - Genesis, Rush, etc, played at realistic volumes. But for smaller-scale music, jazz, some classical, folk, etc, they're hard to beat.