No Bi-Amp but tubes for Maggies -- can it be done?


Someone please either put me out of my misery once and for all. Is there a tube amp that will drive Magneplanars (1.6 or 3.6). Most listened to are female Jazz vocals. If can get some real expert input I'll give up the dream and move on to the best cat coffins I can find or plunge into the world of electrostatic/ribbons. Thanks as always.

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I had a similar experience as Sscot1961. I drove a pair of Magnepan 1.6QRs with an ARC D-115MK2 and later a D-125. If your room isn't huge these amps provide plenty of power to make the Magnepans come to life. The midrange, especially on female vocals, is just glorious.

It CAN be done. It MUST be done.
Ease back there, Tireguy! Greenman said that the OTLs will not "eat" (damage) the Maggie's ribbon tweeters. He never said or implied anything about his Atma-Spheres having tweeters.

Reading comprehension is clearly not a strong-suit for you. Please, take your own advice and "...try and relax..."

Quit trying to save face...You're just digging yourself deeper.
Tireguy - Would it have helped if he hyphenated the phrase "tweeter-eater"? Maybe a pictograph would be more helpful.

Tweeter-eater, as in "Peter, Peter Pumpkin-eater..." I'm a bit of a meat-eater, myself. (Carnivore...get it?)

Holy crap, (or should that be hyphenated as well?) you're quite the sensitive one. For the record, Greenman is the party who was misunderstood.

And yes, you are digging yourself deeper. Luckily, you can handle it though, right? ;)

On a positive note, I now know, definitively, whose advice to ignore.

As you said "...there's always something new to learn." Might I suggest that you take your own advice and learn when to keep your proverbial mouth shut?

You were wrong. You're still wrong. Trouble is, you're too prideful to admit it.

"You LOSE! You get NOTHING! Good day, sir!" - Willy Wonka

The only thing left to do is set the Everlasting Gobstopper on Mr. Wonka's desk and the Chocolate Factory will be yours.

Just apologize and be done with it.

BTW - Sorry, Greenman for stepping in the middle of your post.