Magnepan and associated gear...........

Re: Magnepan and associated gear..........., posted on March 11, 1999 at 17:15:41
Jake	My NAD 314 integrated worked just fine at reasonable levels with my Maggie MMGs, but I'd venture a nice,push-pull tube amp would be exquisite.

Re: Magnepan and associated gear..........., posted on March 12, 1999 at 08:09:25
Mike K	I use a Bryston 3BST with BP25 preamp to drive a pair of maggie 1.4s (soon to be 1.6s, as I keep telling myself), and the combination sounds good to me. Besides, there is that Bryston 20 year warranty ...

Re: Magnepan and associated gear..........., posted on March 12, 1999 at 08:15:50
Starman	My SMGcs are being driven by the combination of a Soundvalves VTP-101 tube pre and a Electrocmpaniet AW100 solid state power amp. They make sweet music together :-)

Comments on the MMG's?, posted on March 12, 1999 at 09:22:02

Allan

I've been listening to 1.6's at a local dealer and will probably end up there. In the meantime I just ordered a set of MMG's to experiment with how they'll sound in my house. Since you're a previous owner, have you got any comments about room setup, how they sound, etc?

Thanks in advance

room treatments & tweaks....., posted on March 12, 1999 at 11:50:11

Moses

hey Magnephans, it's no secret that these things are very responsive to any changes in placement, room treatment etc. In case some of you are looking for room treatment that is easy on your wallet and eys, here is a little tip. If you have any tall bookshelves full of books in your home then move them into your listening room. You can use these as room treatments (seriously...it works). I only have one bookcase and I put it directly behind my listening position. This helps to diffuse the sound a bit and helps the already prominent Maggie surround effect. I've also messed around with the tweeter attenuator. Do any of you have any cheap tricks up your sleave?

Re: Comments on the MMG's?, posted on March 12, 1999 at 12:09:07

Jeff B

Believe me, leave plenty of room between the wall behind speakers. Magnepan recommends a 60% distance between the speakers as they are from the listener. Good advice. Experiment with tweeters on the outside or facing inside. I like them on the inside. It's a bit more focused image and I think the soundstage is deeper. On the other hand, tweeters facing out provides a more majestic or wide soundstage. After listening to Magnepans, I can't go back to other speaker types. I think they most replicate the live sound experience.

Re: room treatments & tweaks....., posted on March 12, 1999 at 13:36:45

aaron

I do not have a cheap tweak, but I was talking to a friend at a local shop here in Eugene, OR. He is a friend of the guy who started ASC Room Tunes. He had asked the ASC guy (this was in the late 70's I believe, before his company was created) if he could design a box that would go behind the maggies and catch the backwave of sound the bipole speakers created in an attempt to harness more bass sound. The jist of the story is that he created a box, but it did not sound good. He then came back a few months later with his first design of a bass tube trap(the ASC tube trap was born).

If one of the tube traps was placed behind each of maggies, it would help hold and trap some of the bass energy that would otherwise semi-cancel-out the corresponding wave coming out the front of the speaker. Thus improving bass strength. I am not a expert in these fields, and am only relaying a story I heard from a friend of mine that has been selling equipment for 30 odd years. Any comments or corrections?

aaron

I haven't tried it yet but....., posted on March 12, 1999 at 14:13:23

Tom S.

I guess just e-mail mart if you have further questions.

Maggie Tweek.

Re: Comments on the MMG's?, posted on March 12, 1999 at 15:58:37
Jake	I also heard the 1.6 before I ordered the MMGs. I posted a lengthy review of them on the AR site. They are incredible, and easily the best speakers under $950,which gets you the MG12/QR. I have not heard the 12's, but am confident in that statement :~)

Re: room treatments & tweaks....., posted on March 14, 1999 at 17:19:47
Jake	I'd bet that would work to an extent. Low bass frequencies,however, have such long wavelengths as to make such attenuation impractical. The rear-wave caused cancellation is the reason that experimentation with distance is key to getting the best bass out of Maggies. Tricky, but the only way I've been able to achieve good bass in my room is with Magneplanars.

Re: bypass the fuse, posted on March 15, 1999 at 18:33:15

JayM

I heard about this from a Maggie zealot, and tried it myself. I use to own a Maggie 3.3/r and I soldered the speaker fuses out of the circuit. I had never done any soldering prior to this, and all I did was pop the speaker connection panel on the spkr, and soldered the leads on the ends of the speaker fuses together. Voila!

Better transient performance, much less grainy. 'course you have to be conscious of the level where you'll pop the tweeter coz that will now blo instead of the fuse if pushed beyond the limit.

OK, commit me (nt), posted on March 16, 1999 at 06:30:37
Mart

Re: Comments on the MMG's?, posted on March 16, 1999 at 06:39:07
Mart	Or, have a Jon Risch type room treatment behind them. One LR1 speaker is placed optimally. The other is toed in & next to a rigid over-loaded coat tree. The setup makes the coats absorb sound either directly / off the wall. No real sound is allowed out. The winter jackets make great acoustic treatments.

Speaker Asylum

Magnepan and associated gear...........

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