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| next step with magnepan mmgs? with crossover parts, be careful.With panels, some go for the honkin' biggest aircore inductor money can buy in 12 or sometimes 14ga. This lowers DCR and the balance of HF / LF in the panel. You can always torture yourself and wind your own induct... | |
| Drive two speakers from one amp? You could always wire the speakers in series, as has been suggested.However, you may want to face one backwards than experiment with bi / di pole phasing. | |
| next step with magnepan mmgs? Talk / Write to 'Peter Gunn'.He is a maggie crossover guy, and wears a couple other Magnepan hats. He would probably advocate the old style SERIES crossover for the MMG.At your request, he'll also send you his schematic......Now, since you've alre... | |
| Details for bi-amping Jeff,crossover point of 'stock' speakers is still unknown. Just for example, my 2-way panels split at 600hz.....And indeed, Nik, the cost / benefit is really up for grabs. To be factored in is the cost of you time (therapy would be cheaper) to tun... | |
| Details for bi-amping Plan 'b' would of course be to can the biamp idea and get a single amp per speaker of high enough capability to render biamping unnecessary.Maybe something like the Spectron offering? Or the kilowatt Pass amp? Put any extra funds into a whole hous... | |
| Details for bi-amping The amount of relative power of amps used in a biamp setup is very much related to the crossover point.Take a crossover of 10khz. How much power, as a %age of total does music contain above the crossover? Maybe 10% or 15%? Likewise, if you crossed... | |
| CD mastering a lost art? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_warThis should answer some of the points raised above. Some talk of the war being over....I'm not sure and haven't heard enough very recent stuff to know.The very first CD I ever bought...John Mayall, Eric Cla... | |
| Low damping factor but fast& high current SS amps? Kij, buy one and take it apart? As far as I can tell, feedback and DF are the 'Third Rail' of stereo discussions. Look at the 'beating' I took from a stickler for physics.The take I've heard on feedback makes some sense. Global...from output to in... | |
| PASS LABS INT-150 or X-250 with X-1 I haven't seen any measured data from any '250 or '350 series Pass amp.However, the INT-150 was close to 200 watts @8ohms and 300 watts at 4ohms.The XA30.5? That hit about 100 watts @8ohms and 200 watts @ 4ohms....while being firmly A/B at that po... | |
| Low damping factor but fast& high current SS amps? If I may, a question more related to the original post, and Kij's comments, above.Doesn't high damping factor also indicate high feedback? I know, right now, that though I am a satisfied 'd' owner, I'd swap it out for a Pass amp. Low feedback, rea... | |
| Low damping factor but fast& high current SS amps? OH, one other thing.....Kirkus speaks about the relation of enclosure size, TS parameters and where the term Damping Factor may come from. Good stuff.I would add that many years ago, as watts became less expensive with the start of the SS 'era', s... | |
| Low damping factor but fast& high current SS amps? It is very easy to have EMF without a magnetic field. Voltage without a path means no current. No current means no magnetic field.The exact opposite of a dynamic system..... What do you call a charge without flow or motion? Static? I don't know. A... | |
| Low damping factor but fast& high current SS amps? In a dynamic system, I rather doubt you can have one without the other. That the speaker generates the energy which damps its motion is without question. And, since speakers store energy for later release, I'm not too uncomfortable calling it back... | |
| Low damping factor but fast& high current SS amps? All this talk of damping factor without a single tip of the hat to the 'q' of the speaker. Critically damped speakers...Q-0.707 need much less amplifier damping.Hi Q speakers can benefit from higher amp damping factor, but only to a point. Electri... | |
| Jumper plates vs bi wire My Maggies came with Chrome Plated Steel jumpers. I replaced them with hand-made #6 solid copper. Some slight help, but the real help with come when I pull the panel and get rid of the fuse and all those extra wires and connections.I'd say simpler... |