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Hi - Have any of you ever changed out the standard nickel Midrange or Tweeter jumpers on your Maggie’s with something else. Or have you replaced or bypassed the tweeter/midrange fuses? The reason I’m asking is that I read a review on Absolute Sound where the reviewer did, well at least the jumpers. After looking on the internet I came across a site called Verastarr and they offer a Magnepan kit which includes jumpers and a fuse replacement. The jumpers are Cryo treated 10AWG Silver plated copper in PTFE dielectric. The fuse is replaced with a polished 99.7 pure solid silver hollow tube. I understand the warranty risk with the fuse but wanted to see if anyone has ever tried the above. Supposedly this tweak takes the Maggie’s to another level of performance. I purchased the kit on Audiogon but will most likely just use the jumpers. Please let me know if you have any experience with either.

Cheers
bluesy41
barrysandy
192 posts
 
Probably won't make that much of a difference compared with completely rewiring the speakers with various gauges of OFC cryoed copper wire, using copper binding posts, bypassing the fuses, upgrading the stands buying Mye's, and then building an entirely new external crossover out of very high quality parts. 

Any of these things, especially the speaker stands, might be a better option. Bypassing the fuses is not to be done if you drive the speakers hard.
mikepowellaudio-old
38 posts
 
Hi Barry, only partially true. If you drive your amps into distortion you should say.. To prove my point you can watch me drive the 3.7i to a limit as high as a live rock concert using Jeff Rowland monos known for their low distortion, The link is in my above post. You have no idea how far you can push Mags, I didnt. But I was willing to to find out. These are truly world class performers in a "dumbed down" (for lack of a better term) guise. No matter the level I bring the rig the Maggies hang with me and do not disappoint. Youll see in the videos there is no lack of dynamics in a Magnepan. One just needs to understand them and set them up properly to do what I'm doing in the videos. 

Cheers !

Mike
limniscate
241 posts
 
I've blown a fuse in my Magnepans before, so be careful bypassing the fuses.
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mofimadness
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Can anybody reading this thread attest to a blown fuse ?
I was a Magnepan dealer for many years.  I can attest to many blown fuses.  I have even popped a few myself.  I had to keep fuses in stock for my customers that were a little heavy handed :-)  So, yes it does indeed happen...
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