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Solid state amp recommendations for Maggies?

I am looking for another amp to drive my magnepan LRS, looking for a solid state amp to deliver more detail than my current tube amp, but don't want to give up (much) of the soundstage and depth.

I have a small listening room with a near field set up, so I don't need a ton of power for ear piercing volume. I listen mostly to acoustic rock, acoustic jazz and female vocalists.  I want more the guitar on Keith don't go and hotel canifornia intro from hell freezes over to  to sound... better...

at the risk of sounding stupid, I am driving these $650 speakers with many thousands of dollars of electronics.  The amp is a Primaluna HP (80wpc using 4 EL34s per channel), CJ ET7 preamp, PS Audio Direct stream DAC and a Naim digital source. All with MG audio silver interconnects and speaker wire. Even the interconnects cost more than the LRS.  

I am very happy with my current set up, but would like to grab another amp to a change of pace.

My budget is $5-8K, used or new.  My room is such that mono blocks set up well, but that is not necessary. 

thoughts/recommendations?

 

 

meiatflask
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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 

boomerbillone
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Hello meiatflas  Right now (11-21-2021) the Stark Sound AD4-320 is on a "Black Friday" sale at just under $1100 with free shipping. I have LRS and use this amp to drive them with excellent results. This amp comes from a Pro Sound company is is not a gleaming piece of audio jewelry. It is getting excellent reviews and is even smoother than the Purifi Audio modules used in the best NAD and LKV amps. I know that because I own the Purifi amps as well. This amp will outperform just about anything out there at any price anyone would consider reasonable  (Three "any"s! That's a record for me.) . It is as big a bargain as the LRS. 

pkatsuleas
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Agree on Hegel with Maggies.  My LRS sound best driven by my H360.

happyship
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I think a Ga class d amp with 500 watts per. I would modify the crossover too. Something with an impressive damping factor. I always wonder what the Technics feedback system would be like with Maggies.

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+1 Sanders Magtech. Will be the last amp you ever buy, power, headroom, clarity, massive sack!

 

Odyssey kismet mns. Great bs of current to keep the mags fed properly.

or themJC-1 monos will drive anything like the Sanders. Sanders will be revealing, bt that s what u want!

 

Odyssey audio orbSanders Magtech!

 

or search for a Carver Sunfire 300 or 600  both will drive ur mags to ear bleeding levels

 

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