best amp for a Maggy 1.7i

Magnepan is a great speaker with amps of sufficient current. You may find that the amps which have the muscle, great current and enough WPC will ALLOW the speakers to sound their best. And why wouldn’t one want a speaker this good to sound the best? Also I think of inefficient speakers as not hard to drive.... rather they demand too much from amps which were not designed for them. It really is a matter of the speaker pulling too much from the amp.

As far as the 1.7, I would either go with a really good integrated like the Musical Fidelity M6500i or a pair of quality mono blocks like Parasound JC1. 

To the OP and many others about the out of budget amps I had suggested JC1 and Musical Fidelity. My apologies for not staying within budget. If it were me, I would get a used amp that is dual mono and high current and use those until my budget would allow the bigger amps. Parasound, Adcom and Aragon are all older units that one might get used within the budget. I have heard the 1.7 with amps that sounded ok and amps that were high current and the speakers always sounded better with the higher current. I have MMGs that are driven by a Marantz receiver preamp and Adcom dual mono amp in my bedroom and it sounds pretty good. Just my two cents...