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Re: Anyone tried REDGUM gear with Maggie 3.6's?

Thanks, pneumonic,

If you're new to Maggies, you probably haven't picked up on the concept that most Maggie owners get nice sound out of them ... but only some (10 or 20%) get the best sound out of them ... these owners typically have high power/high current amps (or run them active, as I do! :-)) ).

That being said, many people with IIIa/3.X Series 3-way Maggies are running them with an amp of your sort of power. If the Redgum (fine Aussie amp BTW! :-)) ) is 170w into 8 ohms and can produce very high peak currents, it probably has a good enough power supply to produce at least 300w into 4 ohms (which is close to what a 3.6 really is).

So I would think it should be fine. If not then you can either trade it for a higher-powered amp or replace the external passive XO with an active XO, use the Redgum on the bass panels and buy a nice 100wpc amp (into 8 ohms) for the mids/ribbons.
NB: this assumes the integrated amp has "preamp out" that can be used to feed the other power amp.

3.6s are beautiful-sounding speakers with the right amps! :-))

Regards,

Andy


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