Arkless Electronics
Trade: Amp design and repairs.
Depends on your context, but with vintage speakers such as ESLs, Tannoys etc the Quad will kill modern solid state. It sounds way, way closer to say a Quad II, Leak or Radford in this context than some dry and over-damped modern amp, and yes, I have compared all at length. Sure, if I wanted to use Mission 770s or whatever you are using these days I’d pick something very different. Context, always, is everything when it comes to audio. Cost is of little issue to me, the 303 just seems the right tool for the job of driving my similar vintage studio Tannoys, so that’s what I use!
I keep meaning to get the tweeters back in and resurrect them... prob will soon I reckon... but Spendor BCII's are my main daily speaker here, Leak Stereo 20 driven for the last few months... oh and Mordaunt Short festival II's in the workshop with Tandberg TR2055 receiver gets more use than anything! Really good receivers are those big Tandbergs BTW and will give most big Jap receivers a bloody nose. One of the best tuners around in it and a very good 55WPC amp section