restorer-john
Grand Contributor
I frequently get asked about Maggies and have to explain the points @CDMC has made about them. There appears to be a mythology that has grown up around them in the audiophile community that they require welding type amps. Not the case.
Consider Maggies have been around a long time. People in 1970s would buy large receivers, with high continuous 8 ohm ratings to run their maggies. Trouble was, a lot of 1970s high powered receivers had very aggressive current limiting for 3/4 ohm loads. Current limiting that was quite audible.
Then along came high current amplifiers in early 1980s and maggies were happy. I think the "you need an arc-welder" it is a hangover from those days.
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