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Driving Magnepan MMG's with 50 wpc Rawson GC

I recently purchased a 50 wpc Rawson Gainclone from the man himself and am using it with my Totem Arros. The sound is great! Both the MMG and the Arros are 4 Ohm and just a db apart in sensitivity: The Totems being 87db; the Maggies being 86db.

So, today I just bought a pair of MMG's direct from Magnepan and am faced with needing to buy another amp (and I really like this little Rawson). My understanding is that Magnepans in general require big-time current.

Am I out of luck even thinking of using the little Rawson to attempt to power them? Am I going to have to go back to using my Sony ES's internal amp? (110 wpc into 8 Ohm - electronically switchable to 4 Ohm)

There are a couple of nice Bryston 3B's on this site right now. I may have to sell some things and look in that direction.

Let me know what you guys think.
ballywho

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riley804
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This issue seems to come up from time to time and the answer that seems to be the same each time is this :

The amp that you currently have will work, but volume levels might not be as loud as you might like them at times....but if you listen at low levels, then you might be just fine.

My question to you is that if you already have a pair of speakers that are at 87 dB, and you have a fairly good idea of the levels that you can get, why did you get a speaker that has lower sensitivity....and then to ask the question of : Do you need more power ?

Not trying to sound rude when I say this , but the way I read this is that you didnt really "think" any of this through....and this is an after thought.
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