Originally Posted by
spendorman
Well, I have piles of stuff, mostly in good order. It surprised me how good the Stereo 70 sounds through the LS3/6. To me, my best sounding amp is a Williamson, but mono I'm afraid. The next best is a Radford STA25 III, this is very good. The Stereo 70 is almost up with the Radford.
The LS3/6 speakers are very revealing. They show up differences in amplifiers more than most speakers.
Each to their own. I have several stereo 30 plus, 70, delta 30's, delta 70's and the receivers with the same amps in them. I regard the amps as poor. All of them.
Strangely the original Stereo 30 (not the plus) with awful germanium transistors can sound really good but it's a lottery as to whether you get a good one or an awful one... they vary THAT much!
I've even rebuilt a stereo 30 plus with modern components, bigger smoothing caps etc and set it up very carefully for lowest crossover distortion etc... much better than a standard one but still nothing to write home about. Most SS amps from before about 1980 are pretty meh IMHO... and generally for good technical reasons. No I don't like the 303 before anyone says "but what about the Quad 303"
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