Amp / Pre-Amp for Sonus Faber Serafino

ganeshgswamy OP
Will McIntosh do a good job?

It will make sounds, sorry I’m not a believer in degrading the performance and putting an output transformer on a perfectly good solid state amp.
The only reason to me to do it, is if the amps solid state design is poor and needs it to make it stable, or to make it idiot/bomb proof against owners shorting out the speaker outputs. Whatever it is it will never out perform a good solid state amp. To me the only thing Mac did well was the old 275 tube amps, even their speaker design is questionable

ganeshgswamy OP
Gryphon seems to be on the higher side.

I you want the best from those magic speakers and want a big "warm sound", why compromise them with the amp? Gryphon, it’s the way to go, the only tube amp that I know that "could" do it, is Roger Modjeski’s Ramlabs 100w RM200 which has a 2ohm output tap, "but" wattage is much lower from this tap and it may not be enough for you.

Cheers George

Thanks George.

McIntosh is shown often driving SF speakers and get good reviews. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to what George said regarding the output transformers.  McIntosh has been using them for 70 years and if it wasn’t any good, no one would buy their equipment and they would not still make them.  It is those transformers that gives McIntosh their house sound. 

I wouldn’t pay too much attention to what George said regarding the output transformers.

Back at ya sunshine, obviously technically inept.