Monostrapped Atma-sphere M-60


Well made a ton of changes to my system.
Fell into Atma-sphere great buys.  Waiting to get my M-60’s. Just wondering if down the road I got different speakers like Maggie’s or Higher End Vandersteens. Instead of buying a different Amp if it would make sense to Monostrap the M-60’s. Wondering if anyone had had experience doing this.
My system is as follows.
Quicksilver M-60 ( Replaced most likely by the Atma-sphere.
Atma-sphere point to point UV-1 updated with Vcaps. Next Power Regulation at the end of the month.
Bel Canto Dac 3 
Vandersteen 2ce Sig ii


pstores

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I know the 2ce sig ii can easily be powered and will sound great with the Vandies. I guess my question is...... If I went with a harder to drive speaker. Has anyone monostrapped the M-60 to drive such speaker. Could just go with the MA-1 down the road. But could be fun to play with a set of four M-60’s.  My guess is no one has tried this but Ralph. I’ll be talking to him soon. Just have bugged him enough. Thought I’d ask here if anyone has monostrapped the M60 or even the MA-1. Am guessing no reason to Monostrap them. 
Jim,
   You could always Monostrap the biggest set of Atma-spheres..... Lol... My guess is the amplifiers would work less. And be easier on tubes. Be interesting to see what it’s like. 3x Power is huge. I was think it would only be 50% increase maybe double. Wow, they would just purr along.....  considering average listening levels they’d never see anything but light use. Maybe after I recover from my purchases as of late I will look at this more closely.
   Thanks Ralph for your input. I did read in several places that these were easily Monostrapped.  Good info.... 
  Bob thanks for the input also. I’ll look at the speakers. Still will need some recovery time. But next year I’ll be looking to do that upgrade. 
Al,
   That was exactly the information I was looking for. I was going to ask Ralph about that. Ummmmm.... Thanks  for the response.