One Thing Audio
Quad
ESL 57, Reviews, Amplifiers with the Quad ESL
57
Introduction
Below you will find opinions on which amplifiers are best used with the Quad ESL 57's
Information
Bernhard Fischer provided the following information:
I have driven my Quad ESL-57 very successfully with the Hiraga 20W Class A amp and in a relatively small room (17 m2) with the Hiraga Le Monstre (8W class A). The 20W gives a very slight metallic sheen in the highs while Le Monstre is the cleanest amp I have heard so far with the Quad and very very natural at the same time. Alas it isn't powerful enough for larger rooms.
Chris Malcolm provided the following information:In your pages about the QUAD ESL-63 Christian Steingruber wrote that the Naim NAP-160 "worked quite well" with the Quads, and that he personally thinks the QUAD 303 "is quite a good choice".
I bought the NAP-160 to drive my QUAD ESL-57s because its performance was so stunningly superior to my QUAD 303 that I could hardly believe it. The most obvious difference was that a congested sound on high volume complex orchestral passages with the 303, which I had always attributed to the recordings, completely vanished. I'm still using the NAP-160 to drive my new QUAD ESL-63s, and this quality is equally evident with them, although, since I no longer have the 303, I can't say whether it might not suffer as badly with the newer and less demanding speakers.
