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New Magnepan 1.7 Owner

Hi guys. I'm the proud owner of really, my first pair of Magneplanar speakers (I only spent a few days with the MG12 and decided to upgrade). I picked up my 1.7's yesterday in the aluminum trim. I will post a review soon.

Anyway, I wanted to ask a few questions about the simplest of upgrades, replacing the tweeter jumpers and fuses.

I need recommendations on fuses and most importantly, where I can purchase them. Also, I don't know much about electronics but I think the value of the fuse is the same as the 1.6 correct? 4A Large Fast Blow?

Also, tweeter jumpers. I have some Audioquest Banana connectors and some Audioquest speaker wire, should I remove the stock jumpers and replace them?

Thanks guys, much appreciated.
audiocr381ve
chrisdors3
12 posts
 
I am in the club - and man, the chills have finally returned to my listening sessions. Happily sold my b&w 703's for these, and I'd do it all over again if I had to. They aren't even broken in yet- paired with a Bryston 3B and a REL sub- magic in the making.

Happy in Milwaukee.
utley1
44 posts
 
Congratulations. Tell us its secrets when you can....
audiocr381ve OP
6 posts
 
Well, I'm making progress, but as of now I am missing my Monitor Audio RS6's.

I'll start with saying I haven't done any mods to the speakers and that my room is supposedly horrid for the 1.7s. It's VERY hard to get these speakers sounding enjoyable if you don't have an adequate room. My MA RS6's are kicking their asses in every respect right now. I've tried 3 different stereo amplifiers, the NAD C272, Rotel RB-1080, and now I'm testing out a pro audio amp, the QSC RMX1450 @ 450wpc @ 4 ohms. Haven't gotten to do much A/B'ing between amps but my initial reaction to the pro amp is a very good and surprising one.

Anyway, I'm pretty much trying to take a Ferrari off roading right now. Next step is diffusion and absorbtion. I'll check in soon.
darkkeys
99 posts
 
Audiocr, did you mention your room size and speaker placement as in distance from room boundaries? Thanks
aceneuf
1 posts
 
Wanna know how the 1.7 sound? I've been breaking them in for several months now and this is my setup.

Tweeters on the inside. The speaker with the serial number ending in 2 is on the left when facing the speaker from the front.

Serial # 2 Serial #1

Anti-cable speaker wires and interconnects connected to a
NAD C375BEE integrated amp 150 watts 8 ohms.

Cambride Audio DacMagic and a Trends USB Audio Converter UD-10 lite with an Impact Velocity interconnect to my PC.

Foobar Software playing my files which are all ripped with EAC software.

Finally a PSB 5i subwoofer set at 150 crossover and volume set extremely low like 1/3 to the first dot. Connected with Impact Acoustics Sonicwave speaker cable.

How does it sound? Wow, wow, wow!!! and all less than $4500.00
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