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Amps for Bi-amping Maggies

I have been contemplating bi-amping my Maggies forever and I think I'm about to pull the trigger. So here are the known factors:

Speakers - Magnepan 3.6R/Mye stands and ZuAudio Libec Cables

Crossover - Marchand XM44 (much research done)

Amp Low - Cary Audio CAD 500 MB

now my quesetion is on the amps for the high end, I have listened to many, but not with my system actually

(2)McIntosh MC275's in mono

Rogue Zeus

VTL ST 150

Rogue 150's

I really love the VTL sound, but are any of these enough juice for the top/mid on the Maggies? I assume they are, I love the idea of the tube sound on top.

Any one have some experience with these?

thx.

macdadtexas

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barrysandy
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Macdadtexas - You won't need much more than 100 watts per channel on the tweete/mids.

Theduker - that old EV XO not only won't sound all that good, the slope settings are not flexible enough for the high pass filter. You need 6db slope capability. The Bryston will work; not sure about ARC. Also check out Marchand and the First Watt B-4. Of course you could also go digital.
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