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I ditto all of what Phasecorrect suggested abpve, and also agree that the smaller Parasounds where very bright and brittle up top. On conventional speakers even the smaller Parasounds would always pump out very good bass for their power rating, and also sounded much better at low levels due to a high class-A bias. However, with inefficient and reactive Maggies, I'm sure it could very well be a different story. Have fun upgrading!

Pay attention to the above comments about speaker placement. It's critical with dipole speakers. I also agree with the comments that the Yamaha EQ should be put aside. Quality cables are critical and they don't have to cost alot. Tributaries offers several very reasonably priced products.

What I disagree with are the several comments about getting rid of the computer as your source component. If properly implemented a computer with a high quality outboard DAC can sonically compete with any freestanding CD player at any price. Other than the DAC, the two keys are the soundcard and ripping the music to your hard disk. You'll need to get software that accurately rips your CDs at full 16 bit/44.1kHz resolution. Hard disk space is relatively cheap such that you can store approximately 170 CDs at full resolution on a 120Gb HD. You'll also need software that allows you to organize your music for easy access as playlists. I'm an Apple person, but I'm told that there are readily available Wintel oriented software that can accomplish these tasks. I'm not familiar with your Audigy card, but hopefully it has a coax digital output and doesn't employ any sample rate conversion on its outputs. As long as it puts out a stable and accurate clock signal, it should work well with any outboard DAC.

Once setup in this manner, you'll have instant access to all of your music collection and the ability to easily burn compilation discs. Good luck!

The output for a signal level for a pre amp is not the signal out (amplitude) of the soundcard. This voltage designed for cheap 5 channel amp speakers! Diamond cut audio sells better sound cards. Your card is all hype (marketing)
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Lawbadman, upgrade your speaker cables to something halfway decent. 18 ga. is a little on the thin side. From my experience, try Winamp, free download, as your audio source control for your music. This has a 10 band eq in it and volume control, so you can put your eq aside. Playing mp3s from your computer is not a bad idea, I even tried it myself with some success using an old receiver, sub and speakers. It worked ok, but the source has to be changed. One last thing is interconnects, I used a cheap mini-jack to rca to tap of the sound card on my computer to the receiver. If you can find a better one, try it out if you can. For your speakers, I have no idea what MMg's are, so take whatever is suggested to you. Good Luck