Aragon Amps any good for Planars?


Have an Aragon 4004mkII and am now considering various planar speakers (ML and Maggies). I have faith in the amp, but noone seems to know for sure if this amp is a good match or will hold up over time. Any thoughts??
sturzinator
I have heard this amp with Maggies and with electrostats. It sounded pretty good with the Maggies but thin and edgy on the electrostats. It was definitely not a good combination, as the same electrostats sound great with tubes or Pass Aleph amps.
My dealer has Maggie run by an Aragon 8002 with an Audio Research pre and is sounds great to me. The Maggies that they are using do not have a lot of bass. Man the dealer here is using an Aragon 8008 to drive B&W Natilus 801 in his main room he likes the Aragon amps so well.
I too have a aragon amp (4004) and I drove a pair of maggies (smga's) with no problem. True the maggies don't go low but with proper placement you will be surprised. Don't under estimate the aragon. Good listening.
I don't want to be negative, but just want to caution you about the Aragon. I lived with that model for a while and found with very high resolution speakers there was a persistant colouration that irritated me for months, until I took the Aragon out and the music improved. The colouration was almost undiscernible in a brief listen, but taking the Aragon in and out of the system enabled me to isolate it. It is an upper-midrange grain which adds a coolness and wiriness to vocals. Arguably, most solid state amps have similar traits, so I am not dismissing the Aragon. Just warning you that the Aragon is not perfect and moving to higher resolution speakers may be problematic.