How much Power for Maggies 3.6 is enough


What about the Levinson gear. Perhaps used 20's ....

What are u all using ?

Thanks for info in advance.
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Whoa, dangerous topic. It depends on how loud you like to listen, after all, 1000 watts is only twice as loud as 100. If you want to play Mahler at front-of-the-orchestra levels without clipping, you need that thousand watts. Even then, you can't quite capture the peaks of the loudest acoustical music. However, the ear will tolerate some clipping, particularly with tube amps, and most unamplified music is not this loud even at natural levels. We're talking about true instantaneous peak levels which are about 10 dB higher than what you'll measure on a Rat Shack, if you played pop at these levels you'd ruin your ears. As a general rule, tube amps only need to be about half the size of a transistor amp. Hence the fact that you'll find some people recommending 50 watt tube amps, and some recommending 1000 watt solid state amps, and neither are wrong -- for them.