good amp for Maggies?

McCormack DNA-500, or down the money chain, DNA-225 used or a DNA-1DLX will work very well with Maggies.

Listen for yourself and you will hear......

I have had great luck with three amplifiers - an Audio Van Alstine 250 wpc FETvalve hybrid ampflifier (heavily modded, including bybees), Canary CA-160 tube monoblock amplifiers, and Tube Audio Design Hibachi monoblock amplifiers.

I was persuaded to try the tubed Canary monoblocks because I was under the belief that tubes don't sound good on maggies. That was clearly wrong as they sound wonderful driven by reasonably high power tube amplification - at least these tube amps (modded by Bob and Gary Backert at RHB Soundezign).

I had an Accurus amplifier that was modded with bybees and some power supply changes that sounded OK but not as good as those listed above.

My Rotel RB 1090 with 380 wpc @ 8 ohms and 700 wpc @ 4 ohms along with my Conrad Johnson PV-12A tube preamp make my 3.6 maggies really sing. The Rotel was very well reviewed years ago by Stereophile.

I had the Rotel RB-1070 with my 1.6s for only a few months. It simply didn't have the guts. I liked the Rotel 'house sound' and had I bought the model up, the RB-1080 I may still own one.
The 1070 has no factory 4 ohm power rating, though the bridged mono rating into 8 ohms implies a 4ohm power of about 180 a side.

While many panel owners like the 'd' amps, you can't go wrong with any of the mentioned amps.

Time for an audition? How long is 'a while'? I'd be reluctant to let any electronics sit for more than say......a year, before using.

I've heard Rogue tube amps do very well with the latest Maggies.