Px25 and Jtinn, although I thought you are pulling my leg Jonathan, I could not help but ask Mr. Strassner what he thinks about compatibility questions with amps and cables (not necessarily only tube amps) He gave me a lecture in cable physics and I am not sure if I completely understood everything he said, but I will try:
He said that if amps have a zero feed back design, cables with a big capacity would not work and could make the amp to start oscillating and clipping. So according to him, in very rare occasions, cables might have issues with amps.
Patrick, I know that tube amps are not the perfect choice for electrostatic speakers, but since the reviewer of these Wolcotts owned a pair of Soundlab electrostatic speakers, which he called an impedence load from hell, was so absolutely excited about this combination, I felt I had to give it a chance, when I came across used Wolcotts for a very good price. So I can hear myself, what this amp with electrostatic speakers is all about. When you say that the Wolcott amp together with the SS amps will blend together and mess up the midrange, is it that you mean that biamping in general with any amp will do this (until recently I have used 4 identical SS monoblocks WBE- a German monoblock- or is it the compatibility issues of tube amps and SS amps in general? In other words - not that I really intend doing it just yet but what about using 4 Wolcott monoblocks, two for the panels and two for the woofers?
Anyway I am also concerned that the ML could be a bit slow with tube amps, but then the owner of the Soundlab speakers was so excited with the Wolcotts, he called it life before Wolcott and after Wolcott, that I have assumed speed is not an issue. Was this a wrong line of thought? Do Soundlab electrostats behave differently in this respect? Please excuse this rather naïve question, since this is all new terrain for me. Until recently I tried to upgrade my knowledge in regard of cables physics only. But I never turned away from a new challenge.