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In Reply to: RE: GL's 20s posted by M3 lover on January 28, 2023 at 08:31:09
Someone wrote about sending just the bass/mid panel to Magnepan, just the driver not the whole speaker. Who was it?
Follow Ups:
That could have been me. I sent the bass-mid panels back in both speakers removing them from the speaker frames. I made wood enclosures for shipping it kept the cost to ship under $100 at the time. Pretty sure I took some pics but dammed if I could find them.
Sounds like something I may have wrote back around 2012 when i acquired them. I would hear a faint rattle on the right speaker when played loudly and it freaked me out. But if I played them below a certain level (I wanna say around 65db) it was a non-issue so I abandoned the ideal of repair.
*** Update- I looked in my digital organizer where I keep addreses and phone numbers and came across this under Magnepan:
2/24/14 8:17a
Rt speaker needs repair for delam
$1400 for new panel, $300 labor, $ (?) shipping to/from
*************
10/2/14 12:21p
**update** disregard above, rattle sound never heard again
10/15/15 7:35p
well raspy, rattle sound back in rt speaker (as you face them)
11/23/16 5:13a
again!
3/12/17 1:29p
Mick Bucher
Parts & Service Dep.
Magnepan Inc.
651-262-1934
service@magnepan.com
Doesn't list if they would take a separate panel although they 'may have' back then, but again at normal to above normal the rattle hardly presented itself - even up to this day I can't recall the last time I heard any buzz or rattle especially since I augmented the lower frequency with a REL Strata sub.On my note I wrote $1400 for the panel so it very well could've been just the inner panel.
Interesting to see my note of first hearing the buzz and not until a year later it presented itself again. Maybe it was my amp(s) I doubt it.
I always thought the reason I got them so cheap ($2700) the previous owner freaked out and didn't want to get stuck with them (he claimed he was going through a divorce).
Oh well, they never gave me any heartache whatsoever, only sweet music. :)
Edits: 01/28/23 01/28/23 01/28/23 01/28/23
Wow! What a deal. I think I spent more than that sending my 3.6s back to Magnepan to fix their rattle (cost of shipping them back + ~$2k for them to repair and ship it back).
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