Nick Gorham wrote:

Tat Chan wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:21:48 +0000, Glenn Booth
wrote:


Sorry to change the subject in mid thread, but how difficult a load
are the ESL63s? Any opinion on whether they would be happy on the
end of an Audiolab 8000S? Sadly, the 988s are beyond my budget, so
second hand 63s are on my shopping list.




That classic amp had excellent load tolerance, and isn't quite
powerful enough to trip the 'crowbar' in the ESL63, so it should be a
very good match.


'crowbar'? do you mean arcing?


No, the first quad els was prone to arcing if overdriven, so the 63 had
a crowbar protection circuit that protected the speaker, but upset
amplifiers that didn't like driving a short circuit.


Ah, thanks. So how would I know if an amp had short circuit protection?
I have the same Audiolab amp as Glenn.