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Do the Maggie 1.6 and 3.6 have separate connectors for each ribbon for biamping easily ??Thanks
JimmyT
Tape off the top terminals and be free from sadness.
A previous poster (previous thread) reported a conversation he had with Magnepan where they claimed there would be no benefit to passively biamping 1.6s since each amp would be handling the same load as if they were driving both highs and lows. However, I believe it would still make sense if you want amps of different characters on the highs and lows, i.e., a tube amp on the highs and a powerful SS amp on the lows. (Since many of us are not prepared to spend megabucks on a tube amp capable of delivering hundreds of watts). You may not be relieving the amps of any of the load by doing this, but you should still be able to achieve the sweet tube quality on the highs and the powerful SS control on the lows. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable could comment on this.
> A previous poster (previous thread) reported a conversation he had
> with Magnepan where they claimed there would be no benefit to
> passively biamping 1.6s since each amp would be handling the same
> load as if they were driving both highs and lows.I don't understand this. Looking at Ed's picture of the 1.6
crossover the two panels are in parallel, just like paralleling
two resistors. Since the Maggie has an effective impedance of
4 ohms doesn't this mean that each has an impedance of 8 ohms,
which parallel to 4? If so thats great for me and my OTL, which
likes 8 ohms!!But the benefits of bi amping are also that each amp only
deals with the back emf from either the tweeter or woofer,
but not both. BUT Maggies don't have this problem! Another
advantage is that you put the crossover before the power amp
so then the power amp *only* sees a nice, resistive load, which
is the ideal for any amp. I would guess however that they would
benefit more from monostrapping (two amps driving the same panel)
for increased power, rather than bi-amping as Magnepan said.
Unless of course the impedence changes as I said in the
previous paragraph.-D
"Another advantage is that you put the crossover before the power amp
so then the power amp *only* sees a nice, resistive load, which
is the ideal for any amp."I was referring to passive biamping, where there is no crossover before the power amp, and the crossover in the speaker is still involved. For active biamping, where one would put an active crossover before the amps, one would need to open up the Maggie 1.6 and disable the crossover.
Crossover for tweeter is completely separate from crossover for woofer
Hi Ed,
Are the dotted lines above the infamous
steel jumper that people talk about? So the
1.6's have two sets of binding posts on back?
I've heard that the binding posts are kind
of weird, any comments? Why would they have
such strange ones, are they possible to upgrade?-D
The dotted lines are the infamous plated steel jumpers.There are three sets of sockets from top to bottom
top - for single wiring when jumpers in place (top socket is just connected to middle socket)
middle - connected to tweeter only
bottom - connected to woofer onlyWhen Bi Wiring top sockets are not used
Maggie banana sockets look like plated steel hex nuts with the threads drilled out. There is also a grub screw that can pressure the inserted banana, although one can argue that the basket of the banana would actually have worse contact. I will be replacing the hex sockets with gold Vampire or copper Edison Price binding posts
The cheapest component of the whole speaker is the tweeter fuse holder, the quality of a table lamp bulb socket ! I will be eliminating the fuse holder completely. My fuses are currently bypassed with some high quality connecting wire and the HF panel sounds more detailed
Hi Ed,> I will be replacing the hex sockets with gold
> Vampire or copper Edison Price binding postsHow much work will that take? Will they retrofit
in pretty well? I wonder if it would be possible to
put a Neutrik Speakon connector there..-D
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Any way to do the 2.7?
Isn't the crossover point rather high to consider using dissimillar amps?
(did I spell dissimillar wrong? Where is spell check when you need it??)
I'd say that on how many dissimliar amps that you have. If you are like me, you probably can find a piar that work together.........smile.
Win
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