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RE: Magnepan vs Meridian (haha)

Posted by RGA on January 14, 2017 at 18:22:43:
Not really - I have heard the 1.7 with flagship Bryston power amps and I have heard the 1.7 at my dealer - Soundhounds who also sold Bryston - so instead of running the cheap electricity Brystons they were instead running an 18 watt Single Ended Pentode amplifier which surprisingly sounded a LOT better. I also played it pretty loud with pop and rock music. Sounded so much better than the Brystons at 10 times the price- which is why I say I may buy a Magnepan on a lark - not so much a lark but an educated guess that they may have the game raised with superior sounding amplifiers. The Maggies are fairly load stable at 4 ohms.

I hated my KEF LS-50 on SS amps at shows and bought them (on a lark) to try out on my 219IA. I've kept the speakers.

Granted I have the advantage of being in a relatively small space so it doesn't require a ton of power to get loud. I suspect the Maggies might do quite well with my amp.

Besides SS is cheap and according to those blind tests no one can tell them apart - so a Rotel 1090 on the second hand market should be good enough to quiet the complainers if I only have a 24 watt SET. The 1090 "with the toneburst and one channel driven it delivers 527W into 8 ohms and a whopping 2825W into 1 ohm!"
Read more at http://www.stereophile.com/content/rotel-rb-1090-power-amplifier-measurements#EMlqImcl4OtXL3zX.99

I think this is one of the least expensive and good sounding (for solid state) SS power amps you can buy -- run them as monoblocks and get 2825 watts per channel - cool.

I want to upgrade over my Rotel power amp ~150 watts 4 ohm.

I would prefer a SS amplifier that is not stuck to one voltage - something that can be changed from Euro/Asia voltage to North American voltage. Not all products have this switch capability.

And as AN gear doesn't always play nice with other gear I will be looking at a second preamp. Music First Audio Baby Reference tops my list so far because it requires no plug in so works anywhere in the world.