Welcome! Need support, you got it. Or share your ideas and experiences.
Return to Planar Speaker Asylum
66.87.73.70
I've owned quite a few different Maggies over the years. Stumbled on to these & had to have them. The owner got them as part of an estate sale or something & didn't know anything about them. They look like a Magnestand type mod, but I'm wanting to get some opinions here. Is this the Magnestand series crossover or something else? All Mundorf parts. Even the binding posts! Not cheap! I can't even hook them up to hear them yet because we're in the middle of packing our house for a move. So all my stuff is in storage. Thanks in advance!
Follow Ups:
I priced out the caps and coils for one box at $757.00. Add another $50 for the posts and $50 for the Furutech fuses. The box is really nice and appears to be the quality one expects from PG's work but doesn't look like his style from the other pictures I have seen. However if it wasn't DIY, I would guess they would cost $100-150 each. So the crossovers probably came to around $1000 each. Retail price would probably had been at least twice that.
An active crossover including a very nice amp would have cost 1/2 the price and sounded much better.
Curious, what did you actually pay? Clearly you have a set of speakers cut above your standard MMG.I don't think these are Magnestands because John uses Duelund resistors, Obbligato and Jupiter caps, and Alpha Core coils and like I said the box doesn't look like his stype. You could contact him and he could confirm whether this was his work or not.
I married the perfect woman. The downside is everything that goes wrong is my fault.
Edits: 03/31/17 03/31/17
Thanks for the info. Crazy. I spent $1,500 on them. Not exactly cheap, but the MMG panels are like brand new & the woodwork & everything looks amazing. I was really paying for the panels, stands & crossover boxes. The crossover parts are just gravy. If I like them, I'll keep them. If not, I could always part out on eBay & do something different there. :)
Edits: 04/01/17
they look razor'ed too; the guy obviously knew enough about to set that kind of price. Have you fired em' up yet?
I was wondering why the panels are light grey and assumed the steel frame with the metallic material had CLD damping. The razored panels (if that is what they are) are obviously done with a different CLD material.
I am impressed by the parts quality and workmanship. Definitely a good price considering what you get.
Osuhog, did you play them yet?.
Satie, LOL, I kept looking for the pix with "Razoring" and then after "I saw it" I suddenly almost choked on the chocolate bar I am having for lunch. That is not Razoring. It's just how the light is hitting the latest version of the glue used by Magnepan on the Mylar. I have not gotten used to it yet (my own still have last century's glue).
It fooled me too for seconds until I saw the tuning botton. Razoring would have been on the other side...and "probably" not good for "flipped" MMGs.
I do agree with you. Though not my cup of tea, they deserve a good listen before any changes.
No, haven't played them yet. It's killing me. lol. We're in the process of selling our house & buying another, so all my equipment is in storage. Gonna be a while until I can test them out!
Osuhog, it is a really nice-looking set. For all we know, they could turn out to be "coincidentally right" for you in a new house. If this is not quite the case after you have given them a good listening chance, then you can look into the range of options.
About the only thing I would advice for now is to have them play at moderate levels, to check for odd behaviors. If something sticks out as out of place, like rattles, buzzes or unbalanced playback, ask about those. It'd be nice to have them in good working order when you get to the new place.
Do people really spend that much on speaker-level x/o parts? Bi-amping with an electronic line-level x/o and a budget power amp for the bass provides a much bigger improvement for about the same cost, right?
Yup, BDP24. You would be correct in many, actually most cases. Not that this gospel gets properly appreciated often enough, but it's worth preaching it anyway. So, tks for adding a voice to the choir.
I would give it a good long term listen to see if you like what you have before changing the XO and its component picks. Make sure you know what the crossover scheme is (Parallel or series) before you make changes.
Interesting speaker.It doesn't have the correct value inductor to be a Magnestand MMG. (Those were spec'd at 1.0mH.)
However, it does appear to have the correct value capacitor combination from a Magnestand MMG.
This might be some sort of bumped midrange user-experimentation series crossover.
Dave.
Edits: 03/30/17
Excellent, thanks Davey. I did do some research & found PG's MMG wiring schematic. You're right, it looks the same except that inductor value. From what I've researched, it seems that the 2.2 inductor in place of the 1.0 PG calls for would lower the crossover point on the panel from approx 600 to approx 300 or so. I'm tempted to sell those inductors & buy/install some 1.0's in there for the proven PG formula. Thanks again for the info.
I think I would confirm first that you actually have a series crossover there. It's not totally clear from your photo's what the configuration is.
I don't particularily like that Magnestand crossover alignment, but you may. I would be more inclined to keep the inductor and clip a lead or two of the capacitor array and reconfigure it for parallel.....if it's series.
That will yield a much better midrange balance....IMO.
Dave.
it's junk, I'll take em' off your hands though!
Yeah those are extreme upgrades, top shelf stuff, congrats-
FAQ |
Post a Message! |
Forgot Password? |
|
||||||||||||||
|
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors: