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Mixing Atma MA1s with solid state.

I'm driving Maggie 1.7s with Atma MA1s. I'd like to add the Maggie mid bass modules, but do not believe the MA1s will easily drive both the main speakers and the mid bass modules.

1) Thoughts from anyone with experience.

2) Is there a ss amp that will drive the mid bass speakers that will not change the character of the Atma sound.

Thanks,

G
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kevinkwann
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Maybe you can explain this Ralph: you make output transformerless amplifiers, obviously believing eliminating the output transformer yields great sonic benefits. Then you recommend Zeroes be placed in the signal path between amplifier and loudspeaker. What are Zeroes?

Transformers.

Sure, you can call them toroidal autoformers but the reality is that they’re outboard transformers. Rather than design them into your product—where you have complete control of their parameters—you recommend these outboard devices. Of course, this keeps the price of your product down since you don’t build the transformers in, but at the end of the day, the signal path is still transformer coupled, with all that that implies.
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