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In Reply to: Has anyone ever heard the maggies 3.6 posted by Michael Samra on March 29, 2007 at 23:53:04:
For the last 7 yrs I have been listening to my 3.6's driven by McIntosh MC1000's. Never found anything better. Then recently, on a whim, I took the Art Audio Carissa Signature (16 wpc 845 SET) out of my other system thinking maybe it could drive the Maggies. It did and big time. To date it is the most beautiful sound I have heard. I'm not talking 100db but I rarely listen to that level anyway. I have heard some 100 wpc amps sound strained on them even at low levels so I can see how the rumor of the need for really big amps would start, but it's not absolutely necessary unless you like to push it to "11" but then I'm not sure the Maggies would be the best choice in that situation. I have tried more powerful push pulls but haven't found the magic of the SET.I know the DeHavilland 845 has a few more watts than the Carissa but maybe the less watts/more current is what is working for me. Give it a try if you can, just make sure the amp has a strong power supply and great transformers.
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Its funny because I have martin logan monolith 2s and I use either the upgraded citation 2 or my mac mc60s which are also upgraded and this is with paper in oil caps and polypro filter caps and vintage genelex kt88s or tungsol 6550 black plates..I biamp from 120cps on up with the mcshane modded cit 2 or the mc60s driving the panels and 120 on down I use a threshold SS on the bass and then for low sub bass I have a martin logan Descent sub..I do occasionally use my cary/aes 811 amps on the panels and they are 18 watts with the sv572s and they are nice also but I do like the macs for detail as well as the cit 2.
Im now in the process of building my altec 1570b amps with the tutay circuit.
Have you tried biamping your maggies? Its easy to do and I bet your 845 would even be more dynamic.
I have not tried biamping the Maggies, haven't felt the need. I may try out an active x/o this summer so will have to biamp then. I have heard the Monoliths, which I really like, and from what I heard from that 12" woofer, I would definitely biamp with solid state for the bottom. I think your choice of the Threshold was perfect. How have your panels been over the years? When I was looking at CLS's, it seemed everyone had to replace their panels.
I just bought new panels for them for 750 for the pair..They usually run 900 but I got them thru my friends audio store and hes a logan dealer and since I do a lot of favors for them they got them at cost for me..THey dont have the 40% markup of the typical but even at 900 for the pair would have been a steal and these are improved over the originals..When you think about it,the panels are 70% of the 7k dollar system and then you add the crossover and frame and woofer..Im using a different bass system then the 12inch it came with.
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