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Re: Magnepan Magneplanar MG12 Speakers

216.40.30.150

Well, if I had the money to be able to afford separate music and HT systems, I'd probably get a tube pre-amp and a SS power amp. Since space and $ prohibit this, I haven't really looked into reasonably priced pre-amps. Maybe someone else can suggest a nice pre/power combo. I thought of trying to find an integrated amp to drive them but most don't seem to pump out too many watts so I'm looking into pro equipment at the moment (could use another tape loop and have some stuff with XLR-style balanced inputs so thought perhaps there might be something in the line of a studio near-field monitor amp that might work). Otherwise, I might just try a vanilla power amp... Acurus, Rotel or something.

Burn in? Well, most people seem to think maggies are a bit shrill right out of the box and take a couple of weeks to burn in. I really don't know since I took the ones off my dealers floor and don't know how long they've been running them... probably not long since they seem to sell well. I suppose part of burn-in involves stretching out the membrane and the amp electronics settling down to a stable operating point with their new loads. A good portion of it is also between your ears (brain takes a while to train to accept the new sound as natural), so I don't bother doing anything special... just play music and let my ears burn-in with the equipment.


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