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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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milby1
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I would take a look into Audionet,some of best solid state amps available

fiesta75
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McIntosh, the 600 watt per channel beast. I don’t remember the model number, but @g_nakamoto has one. MC2600 - killer!

jenney
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Save your $$$  check out Ava HiFi in Minnesota  The Maggies need good power and Frank Van Alstine is located close to the Magnepan factory his gear will make those panels sing and it will not ruin your pocket book

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jjss49
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there are various tiers of ss class a/ab amps that work well with maggies... all sound very good, drive them just fine, deliver the needed current reserve, some are sonically subtly better, more refined powerful better imaging and space

high value/low cost (below 2 grand) -- ava, odyssey, usher (pass design), unmodded older mccormacks, older primare class a/b

middle tier (2-4 grand) -- hegel, belles, modded smc/mccormack, naim, exposure, new bryston

upper (above 4 grand) -- many here... from pass, psa/bhk, para/jc’s, good krells/levinsons (gotta know which ones to avoid like plague), gryphon, vin rossi and so on

there are others for sure, the above is what i know of, have, have heard at length

lpretiring
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Way back in my hey days I had Tympani 4's with Levinson ML-2 monos on the ribbon-midrange panels and a ML-3 on the bass panels along with a Levinson LNC-2 crossover.

That setup kicked some serious tush.

It would be quite a challenge to acquire these amps today in excellent condition.

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