PS Audio BHK 250 Power Amp owners?

the bhk250 sterep amp is rated at 250 wpc into 8, fully doubling into 4

so based on the specs alone one would think they would have no trouble driving any of the maggies to very nice levels in any normal domestic listening enviroment

i do recall some years back when the amp first hit the market and was all the rage that there were a few people saying that the amp would shut down or go into safety mode when they pushed it hard... don’t remember if it was maggies or soundlabs or which panel speaker... iirc the conclusion at the end of that tortured discussion was that that particular unit was defective

i also recall that folks reported that the amp sounded its best when using its balanced inputs (it is a dual differential circuit amp, so that makes perfect sense)

Sanders Magtech. 

I recall reading that Sanders amps are powerful but don't sound so great.  I will look on the PS Audio website to try to learn more about the BHKs.  Thanks.

Sanders Magtech are made for Maggies.  I've had Magtechs on 3.7, 3.7i, and 20.7.   Hard to beat that synergy.  I no longer have Maggies but I kept a Magtech on my Revel 328BE and it's staying there.   I've never heard/read a Maggie owner say anything to what you may have read.  They are loved once they are on a correctly setup pair of planars. There is 30-day in-home trial and I got a lifetime warranty, don't know who's lifetime however.    

Isn't a Magtech a Coda cousin?

I have a Coda 8 Continuum and it has to be the best amp (of 35 owned) in 20 years. I'd love to swing a Coda 16.

When I bought my Wilson Sasha's at Albert's shop we auditioned them with the BHK's and I absolutely hated them. No life or oomph. We hooked up some Sim Audio mono blocks and they made the Wilsons sing right into the back of my truck. But that is only one experience in a showroom so YMMV.

I'm not sure it does fully double into 4 ohms. That seems to be what PS Audio has on it's site but if you look in the manual you will find something different. And when asked about the 250 driving difficult loads Mr King said "Well music is transient." I'm not sure what to think about BHK 250.

I'm not sure it does fully double into 4 ohms. That seems to be what PS Audio has on it's site but if you look in the manual you will find something different. And when asked about the 250 driving difficult loads Mr King said "Well music is transient." I'm not sure what to think about BHK 250.

I've owned my BHK 250 amp for a couple years now.  I really like the amp and believe the tubed input stage helps the sound quality when it comes to providing a rich and lively sound from my DALI Epicon 8 speakers.  The speakers are rated at 5ohms and 89db so they are an easy load for the BHK amp.  When I had Maggie MG12's with 2 subs (Mcintosh c45 and mc352 amp) the treble was really too hard.  So I cant tell you that larger Maggies (MG12's were 54" tall) have more or less strident treble since I only had the MG12 but Trumpet, Alto/Soprano Sax and Vibes were very bright.  I think the BHK amp would be a better match than my Mcintosh MC352 for Maggies.