I thought I heard Atmasphere amps can work well with Maggies but could be wrong. Worth checking or maybe @atmasphere can chime in.
Tubes and less sensitive speakers
I love the sound of tube amps but I use Maggie 3.7's. I have tried an 45 watt tube amp and while I loved the clarity of midrange, I missed the low end slam, even with a sub. Is there a tube amp out there that matches well with Magnepans? I am using the Hegel H360 and a friend recommended Coda high current amps but I still am thinking tubes.
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@soix We have a number of customers using our OTLs with Maggies. The smaller amps like the M-60 tend to be used with the smaller Maggies in tandem with a set of ZEROs. The bigger Maggies like the 3.7 might have MA-1s. Willard Diller of Magnaplanar used to make a point of telling me the best he ever heard the MG20s was with a set of our MA-2s. At any rate, if you want the best out of the tube amp, whatever it is, it makes quite a difference to keep the speaker cables as short as possible. To this end I've seen 8 inches of really heavy cable (8 gauge) make an enormous difference in how the amp made bass impact as opposed to 6 feet of a regular cable! But to do that you need monoblocks so you can put the amp right behind the speaker so its speaker terminals are as close to the speakers as possible.
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