Scott 299/A/B El-84 amps, Scott 299/C/D 7591 integrated amps etc will blow away the amp section of any Tele/Grundig or any other '60s German console...as will the lesser Scott 222 (El-84), and even the 200 (6GW8)...see our articles featuring them in VTV. It's all about the excellent output trannies, wound in house by Scott.
There were some good open frame transfomers from Europe, Partridge being a prime example, but high-end quality transformers were not usually found in German units with the exception of some Klangfilm amps and the like, but were often found in UK made components. The German stuff was not true audiophile grade, as postwar Germany was fairly poor until the mid-late 60s, by which time the tube era was over. German bi-amp stages were very similar to the 3 amp stages (one for bass and 2 for mid-treble) used by Motorola, Magnavox and other consoles here in the 50s/early 60s, however those tended to use 6V6 outputs most often and fairly dinky output trannies, inferior even to those the Germans used. Folks who rhapsodise over the sound of Maggie console amps are pretty amusing.
None of the Euro-made amps ran pure class A afaik, generally class AB1, in fact very few if any 50s/60s PP hi-fi amps anywhere were pure class A, even McIntosh and Marantz were not pure class A, which designation itself has nothing to do with the quality of the sound, as it would seem, just a description of the tube operation in circuit. Like most US consoles (excepting Fisher, Pilot &c) of the time, they were as much about the look as the sound. Most of them even had the shortwave band in the receiver section. Comparing most consoles to most components is apples to oranges, but as noted some of the component makers did also make superb consoles, putting their components into very nice furniture, I've had several excellent Fisher President and various Pilot consoles containing top-quality components.
