Magneplanar 3.6R + Pass Aleph Amps Mate ?


I am considering a change to 3.6R's and am curious how an Aleph amp, in particular a 5 will perform with these speakers? I don't have a local 3.6R dealer and it is obviously difficult to determine if it is worth the effort.

Thanks in advance for your valuable input!
sayas

Showing 1 response by john_l

I wouldn't do it. I think you will be vastly underpowered.

I had the 100w 2's with the 1.6's and they really didn't light up at all. Very clean, but the power really wasn't there. In fact I had never heard such a mismatch with the wonderful aleph's and magnepans. The aleph's tend to sing with highly detailed, ultra clean speakers like audio physic. Magnepans tend to work well with high power tube amps. I didn't like my 1.6's with my mccormack amp either.

I did hear the 3.6's sound absolutely wonderful with ARC solid state at this year's CES. Those would be my number one consideration. They had it set up in a five channel arrangement.