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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
pkatsuleas
248 posts
 

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

happyship
11 posts
 

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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arcticdeth
1,549 posts
 

+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

 

tweak1
3,533 posts
 

@happyship

 

Prior to getting a Voyager 350 (GaN amp) I had a EVS 1200, based on dual IcePower 600/1200 modules, which I purchased because the other class D amps I tried (W4S, Emerald Physics 100.2SEs, PS Audio M700s) simply did not couple/energize my large room. I was skeptical that dropping back in wattage would be countrproductive, but it is far more potent than the ~ double the power class D and way better sounding to boot

 

hth

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spacecadet65
54 posts
 

You may want to consider the PS Audio M1200 monoblocks. I don't own them myself, but I have a close friend who has larger Maggies and pairs them with a tube pre and the result is a sense of immediacy and effortlessness dynamics that is very impressive. YMMV. 

 

G

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