amp for maggies 3.6

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.

I am using the Wyred 4 Sound MC 250/500 biamping my 3.5Rs. The W4S is a balanced design but can be run SE, though I don't know why. Of course your source would need to be balanced to appreciate the huge benefits of a balanced system. I augment the bass with a SVS powered sub. I use a an inexpensive Behringer CX 2310 XO, but am looking for one with better pots.

Hello again to all.
I hooked my 3.6 Magnepans to a Classe CA-300.
Sounds good but I keep blowing the ribbon tweeter (but not the 2.5 fuse) and the mid fuses. I am not sure why this is occurring - does anyone know how to test the amp - I would rather not haul this beast anywhere but I am not knowing much about electronics. I would biamp in a heartbeat if it would solve me the pain (in the wallet) of the destroying of numerous ribbon tweeters. The last ribbon tweeter lasted about 15 hours over 5 weeks and blew at volume level of -12 on a scale of -30 to + 30. definitely not loud. Thanks.

Is it possible that the culprit is not the amplifier, but your taste in "dance/trance club music"?