I’ve owed 1-series Maggies since 1980. For a while I used to have a pair of 1.6s. Now it’s 1.7i for the front channels and 1.7 for the rear channels. Count me in with the Bryston crowd.
A few years ago I picked up two Bryston 4bst amps and have been very happy with them. A really sweet 4bst will stretch your budget by a hundred or two, but at that level you would have a high quality, 400W into 4 ohms amplifier with a few years warrenty remaining.
One other consideration, (thinking that you might like that good ol' tube sound), Bryston amps will match up better with almost any tube pre-amp (if you decide to go that way), than most other amps. Most Bryston amps are rated at 50K ohms of input impedance which puts them in a small 50K+ group that includes my old Adcom amps, McCormick amps, I believe Levinson amps, and maybe one or two more,
In my system I use a pair of reworked and improved MacIntosh C-20 preamps, one right before each Bryston amp. These two C-20s provide volume control and l-r balancing for my front and rear channels, and have been providing that sweet tube sound to my ears for almost 4 decades. Long before the term "tube buffer" came into vogue. In the C-20 instructions, MacIntosh advises against using the preamp will amps with less than a 50k impedance.
Just saying - if you ever decide to go with a tube preamp in the future, it would be good to pay some attention to how the output impedance of preamps you might consider match up with the input impedances of amps you are considering. I like a 1 to 10 ratio, others go as high as 1 to 20. (Thats ouput pre to input amp).
On the other hand if you stick with SS equipment, you can disregard everything I just said. 🤔
Below is the wording from my MacIntosh Manual to give you a better idea.
"The MAIN and TAPE output jacks are fed from cathode followers. The input impedance of devices connected to these outputs should be 50,000 ohms or greater, and the capacitive reactance of audio cables connecting these devices should not be less than 8,000ohms at 20,000 cycles. This is the reactance of acapacity of 1,000 mmf. Audio cable having a capacityof 25 mmf per foot may be 40 feet long; 13.5 mmf perfoot cable may be 75 feet long."