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In Reply to: RE: welcome to the supplementation club posted by wazoo on May 15, 2015 at 08:58:05
Thanks, Waz! I certainly took my sweet time to pursue it, did I not?
Which may have helped, come to think of it. Luckily, my room PLUS the original MMG design PLUS some mods, deliver good bass. This allowed me to focus on just modding the MMGs to the max. In turn, this raised the level of performance that the unavoidable bass supplementation would have to achieve. Simultaneously, along the years, I was learning from what our brighter minds here shared about adding bass. Because of them, mine has been a much shorter path than I had expected in achieving the integration.
In fact, your own MMG's + subwoofers integration -- a warm & vivid picture still in my mind -- were considered a role model from my earliest times in these parts. Now it is time for me to put together some notes for others to use when they need their own options. I'll be happy if only a couple more souls can eventually make these work for them also.
And I'd be happier still if you soon get back use of your little audio palace. Darn it, at least some early room space for the MMGs to return in the meantime!
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I do find it funny that these changes arrive so soon after landing on an amazing and supremely engaging speaker arrangement - thanks to this site. I'd be an ass to complain about it, especially in light of the situations which others are currently enduring. I've found fun in the audio hobby at every step of the journey, and the present is no different.I also find it a bit funny that I think I might miss my MMGs even more than the 3.7s. A pair of 10" sealed subs does wonders for the MMGs, but having them within 6' of one's listening position yields practically perfect bass reproduction - very solid, while being amazingly smooth and it sounds as though it's all coming out of the MMGs. I was joking with the best MMGs comment, but I really do love this system.
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You know, Waz, I think I get some of what you are saying. Earlier today I was doing my 3-mile Saturday walk at the local flea market. As always, I found some old LPs here and there. Sometimes I find a good one and buy it. Mind you, I have not had a turntable installed for decades. I buy the used LPs because they are still good and I don't care that I won't listen to them...for now.
To play these LP's, I want at least a half-decent turtable. The money to get it, for now, is better devoted to other things that are more important. And then, if we need the challenge of fixing us something that plays back music for us, even a transistor radio will get a major SQ boost from that which we stored in our memory banks.
One of the things is that I want my daughter to have my MMG/REL hybrids and the space in which to enjoy them. She also has a large assortment of musical instruments, and forfeiting my room in the house will give those instruments somewhere to be kept (she had two rooms in the house next door). As I mentioned before, the whole scenario is a long, boring story (and whose life is not riddled with them?), but this living arrangement seems best to me, for now. The system changes are simply necessary, as a result of the living arrangement I chose.
It's a choice and I'm prepared to live with it. Will I miss the Maggies? Of course, but that doesn't mean that I won't enjoy listening to music - I know, because I have already been doing so. A different speaker design just means a different suite of strengths and weaknesses. In a way, it's right that things happened when they did - my system was 'there'. Now, the game is reset and the fun can start all over again...although, things are pretty darn good right out of the gate.
You are a good man Wazoo. Ut
It looks like she has 3.7s, instead. It would have been foolish not to try them in her mini-cave. We were both quite impressed. She also got my Marantz PM-11S1 integrated amp, which has no problem driving the 3.7s. It was nice to listen to them again. I really like them. My daughter loves her new setup, which makes me very happy, indeed.
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Hopefully you also have a standing invite to come listen...
We're sharing the room, anyway...to some extent. It's still where my clothes are kept. It's her 2nd room. She doesn't 'live' in that room. It's where most of her musical instruments, stereo and TV will be. It isn't ideal, but it's very good. If there's one thing that I've continued to be impressed with about Maggies, it's how many arrangements are not only workable, but downright super. This is a different presentation from the ~Limage, but it's quite engaging.
A little while ago, she told me how impressed she is with the way it makes her Rachmaninoff recordings sound, and I thought she was going to lose it when she put on a Faun tune - that's when I heard the most amazing bass I've ever experienced out of a pair of unaccompanied Maggies. Of course, the other end of the spectrum is where much magic was happening - simply glorious.
Ah, I've created a monster. ;-)
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