first of all welcome to the Maggie fan club.
If the 1.6's didn't compare to other speakers in their price range, I would like to know what amps where used? I have never heard any speaker under $2k that can touch the 1.6qr's, but you need a lot of power, such as Innersound (sorry now SandersSound) Bel Canto's or high current Parasound's.
Same for the 3.6r's which I have had forever. They have a tremendous amount of slam, if you have the right amps (and as above correctly mentions, the right room set up). I have learned after many different amps that that you need to start with a low of 600w (into 4ohms) and go up from there. I find about 1000w to be right.
I do have a sub again now (Rel B1) and it really does fill in the bottom well, but after much time and effort to place it correctly and dial in the crossover, I have it set at 39 to just take over the very low notes, and the SLAM is well, SLAMMIN.
Good luck, if you get them concentrate on the amp(s) first them think of a sub. I would start with:
Cary CAD 500 MB (my favorites)
Parasound JC-1's
Bryston 14b SST (or 7b sst's, same thing)
Sanders Sound ESL amps (all great, or the older Innersound)
there are more, but get crazy expensive, and I haven't tried many of those with the exceptions of the high powered Pass amps, which are great.
If the 1.6's didn't compare to other speakers in their price range, I would like to know what amps where used? I have never heard any speaker under $2k that can touch the 1.6qr's, but you need a lot of power, such as Innersound (sorry now SandersSound) Bel Canto's or high current Parasound's.
Same for the 3.6r's which I have had forever. They have a tremendous amount of slam, if you have the right amps (and as above correctly mentions, the right room set up). I have learned after many different amps that that you need to start with a low of 600w (into 4ohms) and go up from there. I find about 1000w to be right.
I do have a sub again now (Rel B1) and it really does fill in the bottom well, but after much time and effort to place it correctly and dial in the crossover, I have it set at 39 to just take over the very low notes, and the SLAM is well, SLAMMIN.
Good luck, if you get them concentrate on the amp(s) first them think of a sub. I would start with:
Cary CAD 500 MB (my favorites)
Parasound JC-1's
Bryston 14b SST (or 7b sst's, same thing)
Sanders Sound ESL amps (all great, or the older Innersound)
there are more, but get crazy expensive, and I haven't tried many of those with the exceptions of the high powered Pass amps, which are great.