Aragon Amps any good for Planars?

I had an Aragon 24+ years ago. 😉

Twenty four year old post actually....

@daveteauk you're shouting back at a 4 year old post.  and at 1 post, looks like he jumped ship.  

@burnside9806 

STOP using UPPERCASE for all text! It's bad etiquette, and means you are SHOUTING!!

FORGET MAGNEPAN WITH ARAGON ! MY PARTNER AND I DECIDED TO GET NEW SPEAKERS AT THE SAME TIME AND HAD THEM SHIPPED TO THE FACTORY . HE HAD TO BRING MINE BY MY HOUSE FOR ME [ NO TRUCK] SO WE DECIDED TO TRY HIS MAGNEPAN 1.5/QR [IDENTICAL TO 1.6 ] BECAUSE MY SYSTEM IS FAR BETTER . THE 4004 DROVE THEM FINE BUT THE WERE FLAT & DULL COMPARED TO MY VANERSTEEN 2CE'S WHICH I AM REPLACING . THEN WE CONECTED MY NEW SPEAKERS APOGEE STAGES . WHAT A CHANGE ! FROM DULL ,TO THE BEST SOUND I HAVE EVER HEARD !! COULD BE THE ARAGON OR THE MAC PRE AMP THAT MADE THE MAGNEPLANERS SOUND BAD . NOT ENOUGH TIME TO TEST OTHER EQUIP. I ALSO HAVE A MELOS $6000.00 PRE AMP AND WHEN CONNECTED WITH THE ARAGON & VANDERSTEENS IT SOUNDED HORRIBLE . I COULD ONLY TAKE IT FOR 30 MINUTES OR SO AND HAVE NEVER WANTED TO TRY THAT COMBINATION AGAIN .

I don't want to be negative, but just want to caution you about the Aragon. I lived with that model for a while and found with very high resolution speakers there was a persistant colouration that irritated me for months, until I took the Aragon out and the music improved. The colouration was almost undiscernible in a brief listen, but taking the Aragon in and out of the system enabled me to isolate it. It is an upper-midrange grain which adds a coolness and wiriness to vocals. Arguably, most solid state amps have similar traits, so I am not dismissing the Aragon. Just warning you that the Aragon is not perfect and moving to higher resolution speakers may be problematic.

I too have a aragon amp (4004) and I drove a pair of maggies (smga's) with no problem. True the maggies don't go low but with proper placement you will be surprised. Don't under estimate the aragon. Good listening.

My dealer has Maggie run by an Aragon 8002 with an Audio Research pre and is sounds great to me. The Maggies that they are using do not have a lot of bass. Man the dealer here is using an Aragon 8008 to drive B&W Natilus 801 in his main room he likes the Aragon amps so well.

I have heard this amp with Maggies and with electrostats. It sounded pretty good with the Maggies but thin and edgy on the electrostats. It was definitely not a good combination, as the same electrostats sound great with tubes or Pass Aleph amps.