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Magnepan Mods

It appears that they are using upgraded crossovers. I guess I'm confused as to why Magnepan wouldn't offer these upgrades themselves. It's super inefficient to pay for shipping both ways, have someone rebuild it, and then wait a few months to get it back...hopefully with no shipping damage. If Magnepan isn't maximizing their products, it seems like a competitor could make a me too product with a better crossover and a nicer stand option. Am I missing something?  
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A fair number of the guys over at the Planar Speaker Asylum, some long-time Maggie owners, have removed the fuses from the signal path of their speakers. An easy upgrade to the speaker I have performed is to replace the stock speaker cable terminals with Cardas binding posts, which requires no modifications to the speaker. The holes in the back plate on the speaker into which the stock terminals are mounted is the same size required for the Cardas posts.
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The Peter Gunn Maggie mod (Magnestand) is rather controversial. He not only removes the magnetic-planar drivers from the Magnepan MDF frames and installs them in real nice hardwood ones, he abandons the stock cross-over and uses a completely redesigned one, radically changing the character of the Maggies. Magnestand owners seem to universally love their modded Maggies, but Maggie purists disapprove of the redesign.

There are lots of Maggie owners who share their modifications to the various models on the Planar Speaker Asylum. Most involve replacing stock cross-over parts with boutique ones, bypassing the fuses, and installing Cardas binding posts in place of the cheesy Magnepan connectors. Old-timers still like to bi-amp their Maggies, so prefer the older MG 3.5, 3.6, and 20.1 models, which allowed that. The newer 3.7 and 20.7 have series cross-overs, which don’t allow bi-amping without surgery to the x/o.

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