What Ampliffier And Magico A3

I heard a system with Magicos and McIntosh tube preamp / DAC with their 1KW mono block amplifiers.  
The sound was phenomenal.  Should be within your budget.  

@mizra78  How did the Heimdalls 2s do? 

Hello jo1mtb
Not too bad, better than the MIT with my system, but i think that they are not enough accurate for Magico (maybe?). A friend of mine should lend me a pair of Audio Sensibility Signature. I will try them after summer hollydays, and i will do the Dave and Toy's recommandations too.
Cables: https://audiosensibility.com/blog/products-2/speaker-cables-2/

Note: my previous speakers were Dunlavy SC V..., Very hard to find better.
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Last month I realized that I’ve yet to hear what I heard at the showroom from the A3s. Perhaps I should have just gone with a Hegel amp, that’s what was used at the showroom. However, the dealer told me that my amp was roughly the same power and should work well. I had the Yamaha A-S3000 at the time.

Then a buddy who has S-7s brought over a PrimaLuna Dialogue One integrated for me to try for a while and the sonics were greatly improved but the amp didn’t have quite enough power. After his amp went back to him, I picked up a Dyna PAS-3X preamp which improved the sonics paired with the Yamaha. Then, I purchased a PrimaLuna EVO400 power amp and that was an upgrade from the Dialogue One. I was happy with the sonics for a while.

That is until I went over for a listening session at my buddy’s house who drives his S7s with VAC amps and preamp.

Now I’m waiting for new to me amps and a preamp. I’m going with NAT Audio Generator monoblocks and a Symmetrical preamp. I just happened to be reading this article and it seemed to confirm what I’ve been finding out the hard way.

"Magico’s proprietary Elliptical Symmetry Crossover integrates the drivers with a three-way network utilizing a 24db per octave Linkwitz-Riley filter that Alon explained maximizes frequency bandwidth while preserving phase linearity and minimizing intermodulation distortion.

The stated sensitivity is 88 dB with an impedance of 4 Ohms. Read this as meaning you need an amplifier that can deliver significant current without strain."

I haven’t tried any of the tweaks that are talked about upstream in this thread. The dealer where I auditioned the A3s was using Transparent cables.