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Solid state amp recommendations for Maggies?

I am looking for another amp to drive my magnepan LRS, looking for a solid state amp to deliver more detail than my current tube amp, but don't want to give up (much) of the soundstage and depth.

I have a small listening room with a near field set up, so I don't need a ton of power for ear piercing volume. I listen mostly to acoustic rock, acoustic jazz and female vocalists.  I want more the guitar on Keith don't go and hotel canifornia intro from hell freezes over to  to sound... better...

at the risk of sounding stupid, I am driving these $650 speakers with many thousands of dollars of electronics.  The amp is a Primaluna HP (80wpc using 4 EL34s per channel), CJ ET7 preamp, PS Audio Direct stream DAC and a Naim digital source. All with MG audio silver interconnects and speaker wire. Even the interconnects cost more than the LRS.  

I am very happy with my current set up, but would like to grab another amp to a change of pace.

My budget is $5-8K, used or new.  My room is such that mono blocks set up well, but that is not necessary. 

thoughts/recommendations?

 

 

meiatflask

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arcticdeth
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+1 Sanders Magtech. Will be the last amp you ever buy, power, headroom, clarity, massive sack!

 

Odyssey kismet mns. Great bs of current to keep the mags fed properly.

or themJC-1 monos will drive anything like the Sanders. Sanders will be revealing, bt that s what u want!

 

Odyssey audio orbSanders Magtech!

 

or search for a Carver Sunfire 300 or 600  both will drive ur mags to ear bleeding levels

 

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arcticdeth
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Well,….

what did you get?

 

 

sanders Magtech!

all you need,.. will drive anything

there’s an article about two Sunfire 600’s driving,the,MBL Radiostrahler speakers, they worked fine he said, until he bought 2 Sanders Magtech o use in mono, those MBL snapped up and he said nothing has been able to drive those speakers the way the Magtechs did.

check it out, has the current you need for Maggie’s!

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