Magnepan 3a's with two bridged krell 1000wpc 8ohms

Maggies are a flat and stable 4 ohm load for the most part.

More power the better.

Overkill? What's that? Funny thing about Maggies is that if you overfeed them, they they don't get fatter.

I was at the local high end store and was asking about cliping. can you realy ruin a speaker without hearing distortion in the sound? Or is it like regular cone speakers where as if you here the speaker begin to distort you simply just turn the volume down.
He really scared me but I realize it could also be for a sale.

I have run the MG1.6 with 600 watts, and that's just for the 80 Hz (or so) up left over after the subwoofer. No problem. In terms of voltage (which is what the speaker responds to) 1000 watts is not much different from 600.

I made some measurements to see if I could get by with a smaller amp, and concluded that, surprisingly, 600 watts was not overkill. However, for monoblock convenience, I am now getting by with a mere 350, which my measurments showed would cover all but absurd volume levels.