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nope. I do not think I can do the resistors

Posted by farfetched on October 4, 2020 at 16:19:52:
I put in the one ohm pair.

This is after I think 2 weeks now of my LRS adventure. I mean, these are clear as a bell speakers, and the new seamlessness (for me -- prior model was mg-12's) has got me, completely. Suddenly the highest harmonics are of a piece with the fundamentals and other kin and kindred thereof. So this is what the pros call, I hear, "a good time." I'm loving it.

But that is a tingly little tweeter there. I wondered, is it bright?

I've searched the archives, and it seems no-resistor is basically the tweeter turned all the way up, so one is meant to put in a resistor.

Really? Is that what's the deal?

It's really a devil of a pickle they've decided to apparently put us in. It's like some kind of Zen Koan. "What is resistance that does not resist?" Answer: the Magnepan resistors.

Here is where I am at, in this timeless question. I played a recording where I feel the cymbals are down too far in the mix but it is a "bright" recording: whatever the current remix is of Grateful Dead's Wake of the Flood. The cymbals are there, and you can listen, they are dancing around, as they tend to do.

Without the resistor, yeah, that is a tingly tweeter there. Clear as a very high bell. Have to perhaps dial a slight notch back on the volume to not have things get too hot (for my tastes of course).

With the resistor, I can notch the volume up more and the sound doesn't start to jam up. But, those very high harmonics (my hearing is holding steady at 14k/13k knock on wood)were just now a step behind in the mix, as it were. The charm of no-resistor...

Am I a fool?

I like that tweeter.