@joeycastillo thanks for sharing your experience! interesting though that a 18w 845 amplifier cant drive it but a 25 watt pass labs can! both are class A 😅
will check out the atmaspheres, but very hard to find in my country
Can single ended 211 or 212 amplifiers drive magnepan 20.7?
Dear All
I have been reading up about maggies and am chasing after a huge immersive soundstage that the maggies provide, and would like to combine them with a sweet and musical sound that single ended tube amplifiers provide.
I currently own the cary 805 ae mono blocks which uses a single ended 211 class A output of ~25watts, and am wondering if an amplifier like this or something much bigger like the 212 single ended tube amplifier with 40-50w of class A1 output can drive the magnepan 20.7s?
Cant seem to find much info on the web, or people with any experience. Would definitely appreciate any advice or sharing of experiences here! :)
Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Thegreenman
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yes sir! Let me describe the 845/LRS synergy. The tone and PRAT are there. Timbre is correct. BUT it seems kind of "Thin". The body of male singers like Belafonte and Johnny Matis seems thinner to me. Switching the Xa-25, then their voices have more body. Also, with the 845/LRS, the Strings and Bass guitars seems different in terms of the body of the string. While when using the Xa-25, then it changes to a fuller body. don't get me wrong, the 845 is on par with the xa-25 BUT only when they are driving the Falcon LS3/5a. |
I have used Maggies for more than twenty years and for most of that time was very happy using a hi quality 100 watt/ch class A/B amp. Now I drive them with a Rogue Farrah and it does fairly well, but I am not completely happy with the sound, and I am not completely happy with my hearing, so not sure what the problem is. Good luck on your search. |
@joeycastillo hahaha thanks for sharing! for me always tubes for easy to drive stuff :p even if i have to lose abit of bass :p for me i really dig the sweet highs and beautiful mids |
@assetmgrsc hahaha thanks for sharing! guess between soundstage scale and beautiful sweet highs/mids w tube magic i need to give up one of them! 😢 |
However, I am sure of the beauty of Maggy sound and the need for clean power. Stop trying to use low power tubes to power them and switch to any number of reasonably powered solid state ( including modern Class D ) amps and you will rewarded. I might add that a couple of years ago I added a 12 inch SVS 2000 Pro sub to the system and it filled up the bottom end quiet a bit. Don't let anyone poo poo you on the new SVS subs, they are pretty good.- 39 posts total