Best Amps for Magneplanar 1.7i Speakers

This was published quite recently.

The Music room compared sound using 3 different amps. The differences noticed between different types of amps could be useful. 

fyi magnepan, at the start, jim winey used big audio research tube amps at shows showing off the speakers

over time, they switch to bryston solid state, then about a decade ago, switched again to pass labs solid state being used pretty much exclusively

hegel and other serious solid state amps with a natural smooth refined sound such as upper krells, upper musical fidelity, gryphon, classe, coda, boulder all do very well and show off everything the speakers can do - generally speaking, 100 wpc in 8 doubling into 4 (the maggies’ impedance) is a good rule of thumb

on the value end of the spectrum, odyssey and better van alstines do quite well

tube hybrids can do well too, so long as the solid state output stage is stout

I sell mine VAC phi 300.1 poweramp. (150 w.) i think , it will be a very good match ! Tube amp will be better than a transistor amp.

I have a pair of the original 1.7 and a pair of LRS+ . The system that I use for my Magnepan speakers has a Peachtree Gan400 power amplifier and it is a very good match. 

I've used a mc250 ss ,Mc275  tube and now a parasound p5  pre with a parasound A21+. Very happy.