Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57?

A friend of mine runs them with parasound and loves the match. He switched from big EAR tubes without sacrificing any quality.

It does sound like maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. Maybe it's a front end issue. I have heard the JC1's sound great with Quads but they are out of my price range unfortunately....

Thanks!

Hello Dhcod,

That's interesting!
I have two Parasound Halo JC1s but never thought these are good amps also for the Quads ESL
Do you think they are good on the Quad ESL63 too?

The Quads will only take a limited amount of power and can be damaged by over driving. I never had any trouble as I was careful with the volume but one of my customers bought 63s and a Musical Fidelity 270 [100 Watts?] and had to have them repaired 3 times because he constantly over drove them. A big amp is fine used with care.

Never used them with the speakers, but based on Atma-sphere's comments, it is possible that the older Pass Aleph amps might work in terms of the impedance issues mentioned - they are of course very good sounding SS amps, but the matching issue may be handled by the Aleph's output into changing loads, if I rememebr correctly, they worked much like tubes in that sense.