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In fact, Maggies are less greedy than 4-ohm dynamic speakers, because a Maggie presents an almost purely resistive load (read, most benign load from the amp's perspective). True, Maggies are very inefficient speakers: you need a lot of power to drive them properly. But as long as the amp can tolerate a "benign" 4-ohm load, you should be fine.