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In Reply to: RE: Time To Simplify posted by russ69 on December 28, 2016 at 22:11:53
That would be a high end Musical Fidelity like the KW or nuvista 800 integrated. The others don't have the current capability at 4 ohms - and the 3.7 drops below 4 ohms and down to even below 3 over rather wide swaths of the freq range.
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I was thinking about the M6si, 220 watts into 8ohms. I have used the smaller one on the 1.6s and Martin Logan requests and they did just fine. Really robust little dudes and can handle low impedance loads. I even tried to shut down my buddies A3 (I think it was)and 1.6s playing ELP "tank" at full song and it breezed right through it. I'm willing to learn but I thought it might work? I have a little Creek Evo2 (75 watt) for testing and if it doesn't work out, I can put my Parasound A21 on it or my big Mac(400wpc)? Have you ever run a Musical Fidelity with Maggies or just looking at spec sheets?
Edits: 12/28/16
Tried the 3A on the Vandy 2C, they choked on loud passages and was rather hot, did not buy. The Vandy has a dipping impedance too, which the 1.6 does not but 3.7i does - and for a large portion of the freq range. The 3.7 is probably the hardest impedance curve of all maggies yet.
Though they are great sounding, the lighter MF amps are not high current amplifiers. The bigger ones are. Given the M6 is a bigger version then it might be a workable solution if you don't drive it too hard. But I would try first in this case if you insist. As an example of what happens when you run an amp into too low a load I can give the Bryston 4B NRB which ran scary hot driving my 2.75ohm tweeter. Which was electronically crossed over at 5khz. I then put a 1.25 ohm mills resistor and it ran cool. Didn't like the results in sound - thin and bleached.
Thanx Sadie. I listen at lower volumes but I'll check with the Musical Fidelity dealer before I buy. Perhaps if the little Creek integrated doesn't choke, we'll know something about my power requirements after that test. I usually can get away with a solid 60wpc amp. My days of playing loud are long past, I always set my volume at the lowest possible satisfying setting. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with difficult loads but if it gets smoking hot at lower volumes, it's a clue that the amp is not happy.
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