Solid state amp recommendations for Maggies?

there are many many solid state amps that can deliver strong, ample current into low impedance loads - which is what is needed to drive maggies to appreciable volumes

maggies are also quite revealing so the input signal and power needs to be very pure, or else the maggies (like many very transparent speakers) will play the bad sound for you to hear, not smooth it over

so, the key is to get a powerful well built high current delivery amp (in all likelihood solid state) that sounds super clean super pure - there are still many out there that meet both criteria, but they are fairly expensive

there are various tiers of ss class a/ab amps that work well with maggies... all sound very good, drive them just fine, deliver the needed current reserve, some are sonically subtly better, more refined powerful better imaging and space

high value/low cost (below 2 grand) -- ava, odyssey, usher (pass design), unmodded older mccormacks, older primare class a/b

middle tier (2-4 grand) -- hegel, belles, modded smc/mccormack, naim, exposure, new bryston

upper (above 4 grand) -- many here... from pass, psa/bhk, para/jc’s, good krells/levinsons (gotta know which ones to avoid like plague), gryphon, vin rossi and so on

there are others for sure, the above is what i know of, have, have heard at length

op

as usual, scott (@verdant) provides good input

i would only say additionally that in my travels, i can confirm that maggies are one brand of speaker (atc from the uk being the other) that are seemingly modestly priced speakers, but they are truly highly engineered, exacting (and very demanding) devices that call for amplification that is both very strong/powerful and very good sounding, to bring out the best of the speaker’s ability (and driven properly, they are superb)

think higher end solid state, higher up pass, hegel, chord, and several others scott and others have mentioned - you can go for lower priced, high watt per $ ss amps, but with these speakers, you will hear the ill effects

good luck in your quest for the right one -- it is normal (and necessary) that you drive these sub 1000 dollar speakers with amps that are multiples of that cost - if you are committed to that speaker, you would be doing it right, imo

yes hegels are well known to work exceptionally well driving maggies, and their sound is uber pure and sweet, tremendous imaging

i don't own maggies anymore but am a big big hegel fan