Quote Originally Posted by TazioNYC
Blackraven: How does the A21 match up with your Magnepan's?
Its an excellent match and I listen to the same type of music as you do with the majority being Blue's and Jazz lately. It puts out 400wpc at 4ohms with peaks of 750watts, so it has plenty of power if you like to listen at loud volumes. It has the dynamics to really make them sing. (the dampening factor is 1000 and this has a lot to do with the dynamics). I have yet to clip the amp and I play it very loud sometimes. The amp has a nice tight crisp clear and fast sound. The bass is tight and deep and the treble is very clean and accurate. It is neutral in presentation and it matches well with solid state and tube preamps. I really recommend a tube or hybrid tube preamp for this amp. The sound is really sweet when matched with tubes. If you want a nice SS preamp that has a warmer almost tube like sound check out the Solid State Van Alstine preamp from www.avahifi.com Its reasonably priced, custom made to each order and has nice liquid sound for a SS preamp.

I hope this helps some. By the way, I bought mine from www.audioadvisor.com as return for $1700 compared to $2200 new. The A21 also has true balanced inputs!

Where do you live in NYC, I grew up in Brooklyn and left to go to college and havent looked back.