amp for maggies 3.6

Budget.....................budget..............BUDGET?

Not that it means anything since I do not own Maggies but check out these
(on used market if you want to save):

Pass
Sim Audio Moon

if you are looking for 5ch amps
Butler
Parasound

Just a few to consider

Not sure what your budget is but electrostatic speakers usually equate to dips in impedance throughout a song. Look for amps that can go down to 2 ohms (or 1 ohm) and remain stable with no meaningful increase in distortion.

I'd suggest the new Bel Canto REF1000 II, Spectron MK2 and I'm sure there are others that can meet the 2 ohm spec.

Perhaps the imedance characteristics are also challenging, but Magnepans are planar speakers, not electrostatics.

Mrsilver123

For a bargain basement solution, I had success driving Apogee ribbons and Martin Logan electrostatics using an Aragon 4004 MK II.

Curious you are not happy with your Bryston as I believe the Magneplanar factory uses Brystons, although perhaps the higher powered monoblocks.

Many also suggest there is nothing like Magnepans with tubes, but high powered tube amps can obviously be very expensive, both to buy and to run and maintain. Audio Research has several to choose from.

Biamping is also highly recommended, where I understand the factory also uses Bryston crossovers.

Perhaps the ultimate would be huge amounts of solid state power on the bass, and tubes for the mids and treble.

For a less expensive solution with my Tympanis, I have been using a Mark Levinon 23.5 with great success for a few years.

This was also recommended (albeit off the record) by someone I knew at the factory.

Good luck.

I would opt for a Hybrid like a Moscode 600 @300w per channel in 8 ohms. The Moscode tubes/mosfet output 150w/chan 9 ohms and I believe they double in 4. If you find one with the George Kaye mods Kudos for you. Mates well with many preamps. Very quiet and reliable too.
They make Electrostatic and Planars sound wonderful. Excellent bass too.

A very robust subwoofer will help them tremendously. If set up properly they let the amp
push the Maggies and the sub takes over from there. There are crossovers available to help you too. Tom Tutay custom makes tube crossovers for the 20.1's and I think the 3.6's too.