Post by Owen Y on Oct 9, 2017 9:07:41 GMT 12
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Post by Owen Y on Oct 9, 2017 15:56:10 GMT 12
I brought some Magnepans home once, for a weekend trial. Maybe I needed 400wpc Ypsilon monoblocks to make them come alive 
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Post by michaelw on Oct 9, 2017 17:30:35 GMT 12
best served with high power solid state. 
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Post by colinf on Oct 10, 2017 7:24:08 GMT 12
My family has always been a Maggie family, and I've been lucky to hear quite a few of them over the years. They generally need a room that allows a bit of space behind the panels, and clean power over 50w/6ohms. I purpose-designed my big class A 100w hybrid (tube-SS) amp for the MG3.5s I had in 1996. But now my listening room is tiny and Maggies won't fit in.
AMR-iFi R&D
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Post by michaelw on Oct 10, 2017 9:29:10 GMT 12
valin's review reads like my maggie experience 1984-2011.
like him, i've always favoured the single panel models over the hybrids.
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Post by Owen Y on Oct 10, 2017 13:16:42 GMT 12
Many of the med-larger Maggies were 2-way with separate tweeter panel? And later ones had metal ribbon tweeters?
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Post by michaelw on Oct 10, 2017 14:03:32 GMT 12
the mg1 to 1.4 used single magnetic planar panel divided into mid/bass and tweeter sections using traditional aluminium wiring.
from mg1.5 on they used an aluminium foil quasi-ribbon; mg1.5qr. mg1.6qr
Unlike a true ribbon, the foil is not the driver; instead it is attached to a Mylar strip and conducts the signal to the Mylar which produces the sound.
with the 1.7 there was a switch to quasi-ribbons for the entire speaker in a 3-way configuration - mid/bass, tweeter, super-tweeter.
true ribbons first appeared towards the end of the original typmpani series (IVa ?) and in the mgIII
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Post by Owen Y on Feb 14, 2018 12:21:50 GMT 12
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Post by michaelw on Feb 14, 2018 13:48:56 GMT 12
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