Tubes and less sensitive speakers

I thought I heard Atmasphere amps can work well with Maggies but could be wrong.  Worth checking or maybe @atmasphere can chime in. 

Convergent amps will drive anything, but tend to be pricey.  

I thought I heard Atmasphere amps can work well with Maggies but could be wrong.  Worth checking or maybe @atmasphere can chime in. 

@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.

Rogue Audio amps have prodigious bass and slam for tube amps, and are a great value per dollar. Especially as you step up to M180 monos or (even better) the discontinued Zeus and Apollos

I haven’t heard Maggies myself, but hear from others I trust this is a favorable pairing. I even know a dealer who prefers big Rogue amps on Maggies over (much more expensive) ARC amps (the ARC Reference preamps are much better than Rogue’s RP line, though - IMO and others too).

The downside to Rogue tube amps is they won’t have a "tubey" midrange like many other tube amps. They can sound sort of like a hybrid between tubes and SS, though they’re all tube. But the bass, dynamics and power - wow.