Bad idea? Budget int. tube amp with Maggie 1.6's?

Philjolet
"I have owned maggie 1.6 and tried Rogue 120 magnum and also manley stingray and quite frankly the stingray sounded more alive and is suprisingly a great match. I was going to mention it before reading the post above. One more vote for the stingray. the rogue sounded blah in comparison like i would expect most tube gear to sound with maggies in general, just no current to drive them babies."

Hmmm, I'm surprised by this. My 4 ohm Apogee Duetta Signatures are harder to drive than the Maggie 1.6's...go a lot deeper in bass also (25hz)...oh well, I've heard stranger things.

Dave

this isnt what you want to hear, but high powered ss is the way to go for maggies.....seek out mccormick, cj, forte, or bryston. a nice used amp and pre would be reasonibly priced and allow you to get the magic from your maggies.

There are some solid state integrated amps rated at 100 wpc or higher; the Consonance C-100 and Qinpu are a couple nice sounding "budget" integrated amps that will easily drive your Maggies. Any of the push-pull tube integrated amps using KT88s or 6550s should also be able to drive your speakers without any problem.

CarverPro ZR1600 and Maggie 1.6. Synergy? I don't know, but it would cost you less than a grand to find out.

I have 1.6 maggies and they like a lot of high current power. The best budget way ($300) to power these (IMHO) is with a vintage luxman R117 receiver using the cd bypass when utilizing your cd player as a source. I'm now using my old threshold 4000 (200watts/channel class A) and the speakers can take even more so I'll eventually bi-amp. IF YOU ONLY PLAY JAZZ AND SMALL VOCAL GROUPS you can go with a lower powered tube amp but I expect they would really open up with more powerful and expensive walcott and VLT mono amps etc.