Will Creek 5350 SE drive Magnepan 1.6QR?

I am with Warren on this one, you can only beat a dead horse for so long- another time :) I am glad some others see BS that I thought was flowing in our direction.

Sorry for pirating your thread Mwthorne, it was not my intent but you have to have credible posts or the contents are worthless.

I would not recommend using that combo. You'll think you have good sound but you really won't have a clue how much information(music) your really missing. In that price range- maybe a little high on your budget but worth looking into- check out the Bryston 4b-st. Its not the best out there but for its price it offers a good value and lots of power which will bring your maggies to life.

Didactially- Its clear you have NO experience in this matter and should NOT be making assumutions- they clearly hold no weight. I know of folks who have/are using amps in excess of 2400 watts per channel with superb results and have experienced ZERO damage to the speaker. In fact the only time you will damage the speaker is when distortion is introduced, a huge killer of magnepan tweeters is when an amp clips(inadequate power). I don't know anyone who is using magnepans who has experience driver failure with to much power, however, the same is not true of those who use lower power amps.

Personally I have been running 600 watts of high current power(per channel) for close to 6 months with great results. One of my friends has been using 800 watts of high current power(per channel) with his magnepans, no problems at all. I am running between 2-3 fold the recommended power! Try and get bass out of these speakers with any 200 watt amp! its a joke.

How much experience do you have with magnepan's again?

I wish I was smoking what you were, however, I live in the real world(yes that's a joke so don't get bent out of shape). You sure can get great bass out of maggies, I have measured response to the high twenties @ +/-1dB. My friend has measured to 24hZ @ +/-0dB, the speakers are crippled by there inferior crossovers. Active crossovers will ruin the magic in the mids/highs if you strip the signal before it gets to the speaker- you lose musicality. Though I suspect you won't believe this because you can't measure it.

Imaging otherwise is nonesense

Says enough about your inexperience with the matter- Until you start sharing your magnepan experiences I am going to ignore you pathetic attempt to justify your bogus folk lore because quite frankly that's all it is. Magnepan's are very different creatures then ESL's or dynamic type speakers- I wouldn't believe it myself if I had not tried it myself.

I have noticed a few posts from you in the last few days(you seem to be new here) and you have dropped the dipole speaker issue, open baffle and www.linkwitz...... et al links several times already. Can't you listen for yourself and see what sounds best? You seem to feel there is YOUR way or NO way to achieve good sound. Open your mind a little bit, either you are right and 98% of the folks here are wrong or there are MANY ways to reproduce great music. I am not saying your approach does not work for you, but it clearly is not for everyone- don't kid yourself into thinking it is.

You are right, the truth is not for everyone

That BLOWS my mind that you call it the truth. What are you using as a "reference" system? And you STILL have not shared your experience with magnepans with me- I asked a real question and you ignore it- that's in bad taste.

Would it be possible for you to make a post with out mentioning open baffles, <0.005 THD(which is INAUDIBLE, BTW) or any other components of "the truth"?

Didactilly- I am confused you keep talking about true to the original- were you there? If not its hard to imagine how you would infer what true to the original in fact means. So all that we are really left with is- in the end- is personal preference which you don't accept as "audio truth". What a bizarre paradigm that leaves you in.

Also, my question(s) remain out there with NO answer- hmmm. What is your reference system and what are your personal experiences with magnepans?

Didactically- Really embarass us its ok. The only one who has dug a deep enough hole for themselves and dodged questions here is you. Your "truth" has many holes in it and you refuse to acknowledge the facts brought before you. This debate(if that's what you can even call it) is lack luster at best!

BTW if you have free time you could run for presidential office you seem to have what it takes for that ;)

What is wrong with you? Can't you make a single post, why is there always 2+ posts when your trying to get your point across? I(nor anyone else here as I see it) has made any personal attacks on you, we have tried to figure out just how credible your posts are though, which you still don't seem to understand. The more you make broad general statements with out specefics about your personal experience your posts are nothing more then folk lore(as I said earlier). And as a community here at audiogon if there is a rogue in the group its our job to take care of it so you don't plague other people with your experience lacked posts. Sure I can easily just ignore you but then your spreading false information through out the community. Most everyone comes here to learn and share experiences, you seem to want to tell everyone the way it is(as if your some form of audio god)- there is a HUGE difference. Many people here(myself included) have been members for many years now and don't want to see one of the premier audio forums have the content here become rubbish.

So bring on your 2 or more disorganized responses and ignore my questions still........

New Rule(in the spirit of Ron Jeremy)
Answer a question when someone directly asks you something related to the topic at hand. If you do not comply don't act surprised when people don't pay you any more attention then you pay them.

lol salt in the wound from another thread a link