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| Best Late Night Low Volume Speaker I FACE my panels at one another and sit between 'em. It's like wearing 'ear speakers', but without anything clamped to my head.Maggie Magic is alive and well even at 0-dark thirty is a quiet house. | |
| Digital Amps vs Solid State Amps Is that the same Sinclair who was involved in early computers? 'X-10'.....Hmmmm wasn't that revived by BSR with the home remote thing?Was Sinclair involved with that TOO? | |
| Tweaking the Magnepan 1.7s I have mitigated the 'brightness' by flipping the panel so I am listening to the pole piece side, NOT the mylar side. Magnepan made the swap some years ago and I have yet to hear a plausible reason. Maggies USED to be pole piece to the listener bu... | |
| Cheap but decent preamp ??? Emotiva makes a pre for not too much $$.This will be a new one, and it has bass management which is increasingly important in a 2.1 world.Will is pass muster in an audiophile system? They DO have a mailorder return policy, which helps with the 'ri... | |
| Digital Amps vs Solid State Amps Thanks, Al, I was just getting back to this and you'd covered it.I think the first 'd' amps were years ago, before SS. So they must have been tube. | |
| Digital Amps vs Solid State Amps first, 'd' doesn't stand for 'digital'....it was the next letter in order to be used.My ASP / ICE moduled PSAudio integrated is fast, accurate and plays well with my panels. I wouldn't call it lean OR bloated. I may not have enough background and ... | |
| Tweaking the Magnepan 1.7s My 1.6 'tweak' has be limited to rotating the panels in place. I now have the mylar facing away from me and the pole piece is facing me. I feel this has evened out any hi-end stridency, so I don't even think about the resistor in the tweeter and t... | |
| Planar Speaker Placement Gallant. Thanks for answer. Yes, indeed, experimenting with placement is not only fun, but educational. I wish I had the SPACE to run such mid-room experiments. But, no toe? only if I WERE in the middle of a larger space with no backwave to be con... | |
| Tweaking the Magnepan 1.7s What shortcomings in your panels are you trying to address?Do you have crossover schematic? My 1.6s improved quite a bit just by rotating them in place.....That puts the tweeter 'in' and the mylar facing the rear wall. Apparently, the mylar to the... | |
| Used MMG's I think you can get 100% purchase price credit for 1 year on 'upgrade' if you buy new MMGs.....Is this true or am I just making this up???In any event, they are such a good deal new, I'd have to agree with everybody, above. | |
| Have Maggie 1.6s, looking to switch it up. I've had panels for 30+ years.......starting with MG-1s. At one point I was forced to use them in a VERY small room.....almost a cube, really. about 10x10x8. it was a hard, awful but fortunately temporary space.when installed 'normally' there was ... | |
| Magnepan observations. I've owned Maggies for OVER 30 years. My original MG-1 panels, bought used, went thru a rebuild in White Bear Lake and were sold a few years ago to be replaced by 1.6sTry flipping them around. Swap 'em back 2 front. If you like it better, try THAN... | |
| Have Maggie 1.6s, looking to switch it up. Try turning your panels around.....just where they sit. Front/Back swap. Tweeters will now be on the 'inside'.Let us know if you note a better / worse difference.I don't know when, but years ago, Magnepan swapped orientation of there drivers. I pe... | |
| Best Amp for Magnepan 1.7? IF you decide on the Mac, I have a friend with an MA-6900 on the block.He went with a MC-401 for his Gallo's Doesn't Magnepan use Bryston at shows? In all fairness, I've never heard Mac/Maggie but have heard both good and bad comments. Mainly from... | |
| what to do with my cat on my speaker grills I see some suggestions for squirt bottles. Maybe a few drops or maybe a tablespoon of lemon juice will help.My original cat, Renfield by name was plain single minded and mean. I tried the squirt bottle thing and he just sat there and TOOK it. By t... |