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In Reply to: RE: Placement and recordings used posted by Simm55 on January 14, 2009 at 19:52:29
When I went into the Magnepan room at T.H.E. Show, the speakers were hidden behind a curtain. Magnepan's Wendell Diller ushered me into the sweet spot and started playing some sounds on the all-Bryston front-end: BCD-1 CD player (which LKG raves about in our February 2009 issue), BP-26 preamp, and a pair of 7B-SST monoblocks.
Hmm. The sound was spacious, with a well-defined soundstage. The balance was a little lightweight, though lows extended down to the mid-bass. The system was having to work hard to produce high spls, as the Bryston amps' red clip LEDs were occasionally flashing on snare-drum transients, but there was no other signs of strain.
Imagine my surprise when Mark Winey drew back the curtain to reveal a pair of these tiny panels that he is holding in the photo. Yes, they were being helped out below 300Hz by a Magnepan subwoofer module, but they were still punching way above their class, Provisionally dubbed the "Mini Maggie," the speaker combines a ribbon tweeter with a small Magneplanar panel. Price is still to be decided, but the Mini would make a superb desktop speaker,
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
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I thought the amplifiers were the 28B SSTsquared. I didn't actually read the faceplates, but they looked bigger than the 7B SSTs. Both are quite powerful.
Does the 28B SSTsquared (gotta' love that model number) have lights indicating clipping?
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
No , neither does the 7B SST.
Travis e-mailed me a copy of the Bryston 7B SST manual. It does indicate clipping via its front panel light. I stand corrected.
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