amp upgrade for Magnepan On Walls

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Lacee

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amp upgrade for Magnepan On Walls
« on: 27 Oct 2011, 09:28 pm »
Since I am new,this may have been already answered, please enlighten me if it has.

I have the Maggie on wall system and use their centre channel speaker.

The reciever I use is a Yamaha RX V659.

I would like to upgrade, so anyone who has personal experience with a better match up to my Maggies  your input would be appreciated.

Thank you, in advance.

Bob in St. Louis

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Re: amp upgrade for Magnepan On Walls
« Reply #1 on: 7 Nov 2011, 03:02 pm »
Hey Lacee, welcome to the forum.
Doesn't look like you thread is getting any love here, I'm going to move it over to the Planer Circle. There will be more "Maggie eyeballs" over there.

Bob

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Re: amp upgrade for Magnepan On Walls
« Reply #2 on: 7 Nov 2011, 04:10 pm »
  Do you perfer a receiver or ae you open to other suggestions ? What is your budget ?


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Re: amp upgrade for Magnepan On Walls
« Reply #3 on: 17 Nov 2011, 08:16 pm »
The onwalls are a bit more efficient than the Maggie floorstanders, but I would try to get away from using a receiver's amp section to power them. Does that receiver have pre-outs? If so, you can use the same receiver for the processing part, but add an outboard amplifier to power the speakers. As for amp suggestions, I'm sure we can all come up with some good ideas, but you may want to provide a budget for us to work with.

EDIT: I just looked up that model and it does have pre-outs. So all you need to do is add a multi-channel amp to it and you're good to go. Are you running 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1?