I used to,own Magnepans with a true ribbon tweeter. You can give these speakers too much power - I once burst a ribbon when I was playing the music at a very loud level. That was an expensive mistake.
Maggies are interesting. You need to give them juice because at lower levels they can be pretty flat and sort of grainy. But you also run into dynamic compression at higher levels. At the right level- which to me meant relatively loud, they are smashing. Bottom line- it you want Magges and want to listen at realistic levels, find a solid state amp rated at 200 wpc or more and which puts out at least 1.5 x it's rated output when into 4 ohms.
Maggies are interesting. You need to give them juice because at lower levels they can be pretty flat and sort of grainy. But you also run into dynamic compression at higher levels. At the right level- which to me meant relatively loud, they are smashing. Bottom line- it you want Magges and want to listen at realistic levels, find a solid state amp rated at 200 wpc or more and which puts out at least 1.5 x it's rated output when into 4 ohms.