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Bought a pair of Magnepan LRS. Should I buy a Schiit Vidar or Bryston 3B-ST?

Has anyone heard both? I plan on travelling so small form factor matters to me but I'd like to stay with class ab, and balanced connections. I like the idea of having monoblocks with the Schiit when I get the money, and I've had good experiences with the brand. (Owned a Saga, a Mani, and a Jotunheim twice) but Bryston has the name recognition. I'm also concerned that upgrade fever would be relentless with the 3B-ST until I got the new and very expensive 3B3.
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Usually with Magnepan, the more power the better, but current is less critical than most so less beefy high power amps may work quite well.

I had a Carver m4.0t amp (tube amp like SS design), 360w/ch into 8 ohm, not much more into 4, that matched with my Magnepans better than most. Not so much with other more power and current hungry speakers, much as would be expected with most higher output impedance tube amps.

The Bryston is a good amp and more then twice as powerful I believe.....I would choose the Bryston.
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