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In Reply to: RE: Maggie Haiku ... posted by Swamis Cat on June 23, 2014 at 06:52:59
Since you asked... Be kind, okay?
I will confess my initial idiocy upon getting a clean used pair of 3.6Rs a few years ago, and a big amp to drive them.
I likey loud in a big room. Let the games begin.
Crank 'em! Cool. Hey, that doesn't sound right anymore... look in back: Blown fuse for tweeter and/ or mid/bass panel. Whew. That's a cheap fix.
Back to crankin' them. Gosh that ribbon tweeter is unbelievably clear and clean sounding. Till one of them isn't. Blown ribbon. Hello, Magnepan? A six-foot long tube arrives in the mail a week or so later. Getting to know your speakers, part one: Install new tweeter ribbon and cage.
Back to crankin' them, only with the tweeter resistor in place now. Ya know, I could stand to hear more bass. Let's dial up the EQ on the low end. Ahhh, the chest thump. Uhhh ... what's that blatty, farty noise on that one bass note? It won't go away. Fuses are fine. Better ask the Inmates at the Asylum.
Oh, schiitt. Uh-oh. The wire separated from the mylar somewhere. Major project for this little listener. Getting to know your speakers, part two: Weekend of disassembly, re-glue wires where they lifted, reassemble. Pray it worked okay.
Back to cranking them, only I really pay attention to bass and treble levels now. My lesson in haiku:
Heard Maggies like juice
Watts go in, magic comes out
Found outer limits
=K
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When I first bought my 3a's I ran them with an Adcom GFA 555. This combination blew tweeter fuses on a weekly basis. I got to know the guys at radio shack on a first name basis. I was basically unable to play Barbra Streisand's Broadway album without blowing a fuse. After a while I blew the tweeters.
In the mid nineties I replaced that amp with tubes. Never blew another fuse. Last year I replaced the sonic frontiers tube amp with Emotiva solid state (huge upgrade). No problems here either.
Not sure if I just watch the volume more, or if it is the chemistry between the amps and speakers... Probably a bit of both. I have accidentally switched sources at ear splitting level a few times with no problem. Sounded great too for a few seconds!
"When I first bought my 3a's I ran them with an Adcom GFA 555. This combination blew tweeter fuses on a weekly basis."
About 15 years ago, I used two bridged GFA 555s (one per side) to drive Tympani IV-As, and back then I played them LOUD. I didn't blow Maggie fuses any more frequently than I did after I acquired two Bryston 7BSTs which were used for the same purpose.
However before the IV-As, I mostly listened to Tympani 1-Cs (relatively indestructible) and while playing the first Telarc 1812 canons, and appropriately enough, one Adcom went up in flames and smoke (the Tympani 1-Cs were completely unaffected).
Ahhh! Yes, Norman. THAT original Telarc 1812 LP...many a woofer did I blow in those days of a century past. I had them replacements on order even before I blew the current pairs. One simply knew that the urge was growing...grab the phone and order before that next full moon. Crank up that volume time it was. Awoooo!
Strange, my current thought is of my enduring admiration for the Shure V-15s of those days. Not much else out there could track those perilous Grand_Canyon-huge grooves cleanly at just 1 gram or so.
seduced by MGIIs
wire style tweeter
replaced by true brother
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