Maggies are much easier to drive than electrostatics, as the impedance is rel. invariant across the freq. range. They do require an amp that can handle 4 ohm speakers and their efficiency is about 87 or so (rel. low).
I have heard the $4,000 rouge amp driving 3.7i’s at a dealer’s and listened for 2 or 3 bouts covering several hours of my non-classical test music. It sounded good but I did not compare with other amps.
A good SS amp may be best but you will have to really do some serious blind testing with amps that can be compared and returned to the dealer to be sure.
Maggie uses Brystons when they haul stuff to shows, and has used ARC (their former distributor and neighbor).
I’d also check out the new benchmark AHD2 amp which has some very interesting new technology to reduce or eliminate crossover distortion.
I have heard the $4,000 rouge amp driving 3.7i’s at a dealer’s and listened for 2 or 3 bouts covering several hours of my non-classical test music. It sounded good but I did not compare with other amps.
A good SS amp may be best but you will have to really do some serious blind testing with amps that can be compared and returned to the dealer to be sure.
Maggie uses Brystons when they haul stuff to shows, and has used ARC (their former distributor and neighbor).
I’d also check out the new benchmark AHD2 amp which has some very interesting new technology to reduce or eliminate crossover distortion.