Bel Canto Ref 1000MK2 or Wyred SX1000MK2

I think it sounds best with hard to drive loads. With average or easily driven loads, the amps sound just average.

Macdadtexas, Sanders makes both an ESL amp and the Magtech amp, which is a different design, more expensive, and built for conventional speakers. I wonder if your experience might have been with the ESL amp.

Actually, I have heard both, and the Magtech is built specifically with hard to drive loads, such as Magnepan's in mind. I love the amps, they just are more special in my opinion with certain speakers, which in most instances are true for any amp.

Well, except for Pass and ARC amps, which have always sounded great with whatever they have been hooked up to when I have heard them.

Let's go back to the comparison between Bel Canto and Wyred 4 Sound.

" Let's go back to the comparison between Bel Canto and Wyred 4 Sound. "

About the year ago, TAS published review of Bel Canto Ref 1000 (MkI or MkII) and Wyred4Sound (model?) and reviewer liked more Bel Canto. You will have to search for more details.

Now, if Macdadtexas listen to early models of Musician III (or Musician II) then I agree with him 100%. I bought my Musician III fall of 2004, one of the first, and while I loved its control it was indeed very bright for my ears. Now, of course, its Mk2 and with all upgardes it, in onew word: "silky"

All The Best

I remember the TAS review of the 2 amps. In between the lines it seemed to say they both were the same, but we all know the saying "Don't bite the hand that feeds you."