Pass or ARC Integrated for Maggie 1.7's

Tough question. Do you plan in playing loud, or with finess?
If finess then the ARC integrated. If you want to play loud, the pass 150 integrated would be better.
The Pass is gonna run particularly hot being 150 watts class "A" and all.
Pass+ bass slam and loud
The ARC is tubes with finess but not gonna play REAL loud
And then it has tubes...
Choose your poison...
They both would sound good... just a little emphasis on one style or the other.
PS the most recommended pairing of Magnepan is with Audio Research or Bryston.
(I own the Magnepan 3.6 with Bryston gear)

I would go with Pass as tubes just aren't the same animal when asked for gobs of current. You might want to check out Magtech amps to see if he has an integrated in the works. That is Sanders Sound Systems. The guy has been working on amps specifically for planars for years and now has this amp for magneplanars. For the sake of arguement I will say ARC is the most SS sounding tube gear I have ever heard.

Just to correct an earlier post, the ARC DSi200 is their newest switching amp in integrated form, it is not a tube unit. The only review I have found so far likes it very much. I'm not sure how much difference in "loudness" you will find between the DSi200 and the Pass, since the DSi puts out 200 watts into 8 ohms, and 300 watts into a 4 ohm load like the 1.7s, which I believe is the same as the Pass amp. For what its worth, I run an ARC 150.2 into my 1.6s, and it sounds good to me (and the 150.2 also puts out 300 watts into a 4 ohm load).