Magnapan LRS+ VS .7

I have finalized my setup in the small office with the LRS+.

• I tried a lot of amps with the LRS+
  • The best cheap amp was the PeachTree GAN400
  • The best amp was the CODA #16. That 100 watts of class A works nicely with the slightly bright LRS+. The CODA #16 is a beast of an amp, very powerful.
  • The second-best amp, and what I will use long term, is the Sanders Magtech. It lacked that beautiful warmth of the CODA but I think I solved that with my preamp and DAC
• I am using a slightly warm and uterrly silent Holo Audio Serene preamp
• I found the slightly rolled off and warm-ish Yggi+ Less Is More DAC amazing with the LRS+

So, I am done with the LRS+ system. One way to potentially improve this system is to get the comparable speaker from these guys, but I will not do that.

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Curios about the PeachTree GAN400. I've sometimes seen that PeachTree in general don't drive Maggies very well. Is this true overall?

I have owned the GAN 400 2 times to use with the LRS+. The first time was because I had it in the house when the LRS+ arrived. It was rather good and had more than enough power. I have a PeachTree GAN1 that was modded by Tweakaudio.com and it does not have enough power to drive the LRS+ (200 watts).

My issue with the GAN400 was a bit of hardness on top. I sold it for that reason. However, I bought it back again since I was not able to figure out what amp to use long term. I spent $1000 on the used GAN400.

The GAN400 seemed to drive the LRS+ within striking distance of the Magtech and the CODA #16. That is with punch and soundstage size. The Sanders and CODA sounded better overall. No hardness, just beautiful sound, especially with the Yggi+ Less Is More DAC. 

For the price the GAN400 is good. I owned the Parasound A21+ before but not when I had the LRS+. I have a feeling that would be even better than the GAN400 but not the Sanders or #16.

I  bought the LRS (not +) a few years ago. I drove it with an old HK Citation 12 and 11 and it sounded very nice. The LRS is a gateway drug and it was for me. I had more room to move the speakers out into the room and I found myself wanting more bass and oomph so I sold them and bought some used .7s which sounded similar to me but better. 

I don't know how the Magnepans will sound with Class D but my one experience with a Class D amp was that it worked with some speakers but not others. 

I ultimately sold the .7s and went to open baffle speakers because I wanted the open sound plus dynamics and I've stayed thereafter with the speakers I bought.

I'm setting up a Parasound JC 2 preamp and JC 1 monoblocks I haven't used in years to try with KEF Reference 1s.  This thread encourages me to drag a pair of LRS out of the garage to try with the JC 1s (400 watts@8Ω, 800@4Ω).  The LRS are light enough to set aside when not in use use.  I use low bias, so the JC 1s run as Class A to 10 watts rather than the 25 watts with high bias..