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I'm looking for an amplifier to drive my M60s and VP150. What amp do you use in your system and what do you recommend? I heard the Odyssey Stratos and Adcom 5503 are both very good.

just about any decent amp will drive these speakers quite well

check out the refurbished Denon's (they come with full warranty) at ecost.com

i have heard the Stratos an it is an awesome amp was a budd of mine an he was powering a pair of Krix Lyrix's everything we listened too sounded good the Amp was Beefy an heavy lol but the sound was Swwweeeeet

i have a marantz MM9000 and it pushes my epic 60 +vp150 system very nicely, the mm9000 puts out about 170 watts or so per channel X5, and you can buy one for 600$ at http://accessories4less.com/ another guy on the board bought one of the mm9000's from accessories4less as well, and he is very pleased with his amp as i am with mine, also the amp is THX certified... dont know if it matters to you or not, but it is... also originally the amp cost 2000$... you will be buying over stock ( from the manufacture) from a certified dealer, so we get the 5 year warrantee that marantz offers on the amp.. I think its 5 years....


hope this helps, this is about the best value of an amp you can buy, I did about a months worth of research before I bought mine, and it was the best value I could come up with…


good luck..

I'm the other guy with one of the Marantz MM900's. The last time I checked, accessories4less had them for $749 including shipping. This is a 170 xatt x 5 amp that originally retailed for over $2K. Everybody I've heard of who has one is quite satisfied with the unit, myself included. It's a great way to get a powerful multichannel amp at a very low cost.

Mark

i have the same amp--mm9000-- running m80s and vp150..it works fine, also has level controlls on the back for each channel and peak indicator lights on the front....great deal if you can still get one...ron

I had an Odyssey Stratos powering my M60ti's for awhile, and couldn't have been happier. Klaus is a really decent guy to boot.

Thanks...based on your recommendation and review on audioreview.com, I'm going with the Marantz 9000. I'm now using the HarmanKardon AV-320 and it has 55WPC. I'm not sure whether or not I will hear noticable different. But I'm willing to give separate a try. Thanks.