Tube Amps vs Sanders ESL Amp for Electrostatics

I have not heard the ESL amp but have heard the Magtech amp driving Maggies on quite a few occasions and I think that it’s quite impressive. Several of my buddies with more experience are of the same opinion. BUT, sound quality is a personal consideration. To me this sound may not be ideal if you seek ultimate warmth, body, mid-range purity and the dimensionality you would get with tubes. The perfect balance for me would be to match the Magtech with the right tubed dac and/or tubed preamp.

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

Roger Modjeski (Music Reference) is making an ESL speaker with an integral direct-drive (no output transformer) tube amp. I'll bet it's killer!

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.