RE: Any sense of tube amp for 4Ohm medium speakers

Posted by tvr2500m (A) on April 14, 2010 at 11:26:18

In Reply to: Any sense of tube amp for 4Ohm medium speakers posted by avsBuddy on April 13, 2010 at 12:26:41:

I have driven various Magnepans with tube amps. I've liked the results plenty well. Way back when, I did use a stock ST-70 occasionally to drive a pair of MG-IIBs. I recall this as sounding just fine most of the time. Really cranking things up didn't always go so well. Things got soft and compressed, and occasionally a bit worse.

I haven't had any issues powering speaker as inefficient as Maggies, and those speakers more efficient than the typical Maggie, with tube amps in the 70-150 wpc range. I haven't typically spent that much time looking at nominal impedance and impedance curves.

I would guess that a Cit II would be very nice, the Manley Snappers could possibly be fun, etc. Lots of choices.

- SJ

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Topic - Any sense of tube amp for 4Ohm medium speakers - avsBuddy 12:26:41 04/13/10 (13)

RE: Any sense of tube amp for 4Ohm medium speakers - tony s 10:35:01 04/15/10 (0)

Maggie 4ohm 86db sens + 100wpc tube amp = Heaven. nt - DragonEars 22:14:49 04/14/10 (0)

Either Manley or VTL amps - E-Stat 16:20:23 04/14/10 (0)

RE: Any sense of tube amp for 4Ohm medium speakers - tvr2500m 11:26:18 04/14/10 (0)

There's always the brute force method - AbeCollins 07:18:31 04/14/10 (0)

My buddy drove 88 db speakers with a Dynaco ST-70 - Paully 05:46:05 04/14/10 (0)

RE: Any sense of tube amp for 4Ohm medium speakers - Audioquest4life 21:29:28 04/13/10 (0)

RE: Any sense of tube amp for 4Ohm medium speakers - dls123 16:40:02 04/13/10 (3)

RE: Any sense of tube amp for 4Ohm medium speakers - Jim McShane 06:25:55 04/14/10 (2)

How about Manley? - avsBuddy 07:42:31 04/14/10 (1)

RE: How about Manley? - Eli Duttman 17:12:48 04/14/10 (0)

RE: Any sense of tube amp for 4Ohm medium speakers - Eli Duttman 15:51:45 04/13/10 (0)

RE: Any sense of tube amp for 4Ohm medium speakers - Neff 13:34:38 04/13/10 (0)

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