Suitable for music or light welding jobs 
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I had a P35 mk2 for a number of years, remains one of my favourite amps of all time - and very far from P&S, at least with the pre and speakers I had at the time. Pair it wrongly and I guess anythingās possible, itās was only 30wpc.
Wilsons do need a lot of current to wake them up - valves donāt seem a natural partner, so not surprised it was underwhelming, especially compared to what you were accustomed to at home, even back then.
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If it still fits then not everything has fallen! 
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I remember going to a Quad demo at Whittlebury quite a few years ago, the theme of which was roughly āOur current large ESLs can hold their own against high-performance cone speakersā. The reference cone set was a pair of PMC pro studio monitors (MB2S or some such) and they gave a good account of themselves. The big flat Quads were indeed competitive, albeit with a very different character. Talking to the demonstrator afterwards (I think it might have been Peter Comeau) I noticed that there were a pair of Quad II-80s (nominal 80W/ch from four KT88s in each monoblock) hiding behind the scenery. They werenāt driving the speaks though. Apparently heād brought them hoping to use them but they just werenāt man enough in what was a pretty large meeting room full of sound-absorbing people. So heād borrowed a Krell from someone 
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ffs
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Ah - thanks - thought that mightāve been my ignorance added to the āTC Rd in the 80sā mania for ever-bigger amps. Our ābestā at the time was a MF A370, which I remember liking when you ran it with their battleship MVX pre, usually driving Magneplanar MG-3s or Kef 104/2s. The A370 ran pretty hot, and had to go back for repairs a couple of times. ISTR MF fielded an even bigger amp just before I left - SA470? Happy days.
Edit: with hindsight we probably never did the Beards justice in terms of matching; didnāt really know anything about valves and just plugged them into whatever roughly-in-their-price-range system we were demoing 
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To be fair, itās all a matter of opinion anyway - I like the sound I got from the Beard, Iāve no doubt many would run a mile!
I believe the MF A370 is still pretty sought-after - definitely one of their better efforts (usual reliability āquirksā notwithstanding!)
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Anyone heard this rumour, before?
From another forum
After some research I discovered that AT had run a secret programme to install nano-valves into cartridges, and what gives the AT33EV itās slightly soggy fullness is a very tiny EL34 based amplifier within the body of the cartridge. Incredible technology, and so small no-one will ever be able to verify it. Nor indeed falsify it.
Gone about three months early with this oneā¦
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I still canāt believe it was posted!
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link?
or a few days late - the Spanish version (Day of the Innocents) is on Dec 28th, if the message has jumped across from there
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Thatās just Andy trying to be funny, sold a phono to him many years ago and despite being a deluded Harbeth fan heās fairly normal.
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I remember when you had that sofa
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Was lovely,had the set.
Sadly was a nightmare for my back
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Thatās lovely.
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Iām honestly not sure if its just me, but Iāve yet to hear a pair of wilsons that I actually find even slightly musically engaging.
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No itās not just you, theyāre worse than Harbeth 
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