Magtech Amplifier

I have the ESL version of the Magtech and LOVE it! I have tried and/or owned many very expensive amps and this is the best I've heard with my Martin Logan CLSIIA's. BTW, Roger and Angela are wonderful to work with and really take care of their customers.

Norm, I suspect that excruciatingly long break in time and slow performance recovery may be fairly common among high-efficiency amps...

Guidocorona, possibly. The irony is that Roger Sanders insists that there is no breakin on solid state amps. He thinks I'm crazy.

Uhrn.... Norm, if that is the case, you are in good company... All solid state amps I have broken in this far (high efficiency class D) have taken between 1,000 and 1,500 hrs to break in.... and even my previous high bias class A/B amp, the venerable Rowland 7M, of which I have been the proud 3rd daddy, took about 24 hrs of steaming before giving its best after its power was cycled down to standby for a couple of days or so.

I suspect that, if I needed instant gratification, I would need to change hobby, or at least target very different amps.

Of course, ever the empiricist, I remain open to possibly discovering a high end SS high-efficiency amp that is not plagued by "late bloom syndrome". Yet for now, ripening cheeses, aging wines, and breaking-in amps... remains just part of the ever patient fun.

Saluti,

G.

I picked up a pair in July and they are incredible. They did sound great from the beginning but they did sound even better after 120-200 hours. I have the Esoteric K03 going into them directly and it is a math made in heaven with my Stats.