Some of the best sound I have heard out of the Maggie 3.5's have been with ss gear. True, tubes do something magical, but the Maggies are magical in the midrange. What you don't want is brittle ss with them. The ss recommendations earlier were very good. I might add some budget ones I have heard that work well. The ARC D300, Bryston 4BST, Bryston 4BNRB(but a bit sibilant in the mids, and I would definitely use a tube preamp with a ss amp. Tubes are needed somewhere in there. With the D3oo and 4BST, the sound was magical. The preamp was an ARC or Sonic Frontiers SFL-2. I would use a ARC as a preamp, L15, 16, or Reference if you can swing the scratch. One tube amp I forgot to mention was the Music Reference RM9MKII with 6550 Svetlana tubes...glorious. You might even check out the new RM200. A good choice for low impedance speakers like the Maggies. Try both and see what you like best, jeff
