Solid state amp recommendations for Maggies?

Hello, I have many years of experience in hifi audio.  There are some amplifiers I can easily recommend but a more important point to make is about quality.  I’ve never had good success matching tube amps with Magnepan speakers.  And also had to go through many Solid State amps till I found the one that sounded great on my Magnepans. If I were you, I’d first be heavily leaning toward a Class A design amp because I’ve always found them to sound the best. Class A designs are more transparent and “flesh” out the music better.   I would also go with a very well known and popular amp amongst audiophiles.  Newer or older designs won’t make much of a difference IMO as long as it’s a Class A amp and built with high quality.  You shouldn’t need much power as I have gotten great results using a 50 watt amp on the big Maggie’s. I think my main points are,  stick with quality, choose Class A design, and research what’s extremely popular and sought after amongst audiophiles and you will be happy with your purchase.  Some amps are very detailed and others are very musical but with tweaks like cables, you will be able to adjust the sound to your liking.  Good luck in your journey, I’ve been in it for 30yrs and have settled on what I believe sounds best to me. 

Many very well respected amps mentioned. Whichever you choose do yourself a favor and take a close look at Hegel; as others have recommended. I would suggest the H360 which is an excellent amp/DAC/streamer that you can acquire on the after market at very reasonable prices. Also a step up is the newer H390. This is an excellent amp that will match perfectly with your speakers. Either Hegel will drive them with ease and sound beautifully doing it. I have owned both and compared them with amps costing many times the price and believe it or not they always performed on par with the best at fraction of the cost. Your ears will thank you!

Well,….

what did you get?

sanders Magtech!

all you need,.. will drive anything

there’s an article about two Sunfire 600’s driving,the,MBL Radiostrahler speakers, they worked fine he said, until he bought 2 Sanders Magtech o use in mono, those MBL snapped up and he said nothing has been able to drive those speakers the way the Magtechs did.

check it out, has the current you need for Maggie’s!

Following on a couple of postings here on class A and Classé (an intentional pun on an intentional pun by the original Canadian company), I'm using a vintage Classé DR-9 (David Reich's final design for the company) class-A amp with very few hours on it to drive my LRS. It delivers very good audio quality through those speakers and I'm pretty happy with the setup.

I was searching for 'Sander's and stumbled on this thread.

I own Magnepan 1.7i.  I don't own LRS, and I bet that they can benefit from $$$ upstream, too.

Amps I've used with the 1.7i - Pass Labs Aleph 30s, Crown K2, Integra Research RDA7, EVS 1200 by Ric Schultz, Sanders Magtech.  The Magtech seems to bring out more bass from Magnepans.  Depending on the size of your room, and listening level, you probably will not run into clipping with a Magtech. 

I believe Roger Sanders chose to use less speaker protection circuitry in the Magtech, which helps the sound quality.  It also has a fully regulated power supply, which helps the amp stay cooler than a class A solid state amp.  I found the Sanders sounded better plugged directly into a wall outlet vs. power supply conditioning.  (I own an Equi=Tech balanced power unit.)

Changing loudspeakers can be a big deal.  I upgraded my Maggie 1.7i with Mye stands, Cardas jumpers, and Cardas spade adapters.  Those 'tweaks' were less significant than trying tweeters inside vs. outside, and trying different speaker placement in the room.

I went back and forth reading about crossover mods, and Peter Gunn Magnestand models.  If I could audition 'gunned' Maggies locally, I would have given them a shot.

My opinion: See if you can wring out the best performance of your LRS before you move 'up' the Magnepan line.  A great amp for the LRS will still be a great amp for a different Magnepan model.