Should I demo some Magnepan MG-1c's

candyliquor35m

or wait for some 1.5's or 1.6's?

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dorokusai

No and yes.

candyliquor35m

dorokusai wrote:

No and yes.

Thanks. That's kind of what I was thinking after hearing tour2ma's 1.5's

madmax

dorokusai wrote:

No and yes.

The polk forum is always a good bet if you want a truely definitive answer.
madmax

dkg999

I would wait for a pair of 1.5 or 1.6's. In my opinion the differences are pretty substantial. You should also watch for 2.5R's.

dorokusai

I would suggest you stop the game and go big or don't go at all. I've hovered, listened or owned most of the lower models and it just doesnt make any sense to me. Magnepan is a c@ck tease.

TroyD

Yup, w/ribbons...go big or go home.

BDT

RuSsMaN

You'll spend as much with a small pair, buying a sub fast enough to keep up with them to fill out what they are missing - Martin Logan, Vandersteen, REL, etc etc....

At the end of the day, you could have just bought bigger ribbons.

Cheers,
Russ

dkg999

I spent a bit of time with both the 1.6QR and the 3.6R's before I decided on the 1.6QR's. If you have the room, and the ability to place them properly, and the budget to buy good source gear, then the 3.6R's are the way to go. With mid-fi source gear, and limits on placement, the 1.6QR's will sound better than a compromised set of 3.6R's. I wanted the 3.6R's badly, and I will have a set some day, but with what I wanted to spend for source gear, and the imperfect room they have to fit in, the 1.6QR's were a much better choice.

1.6QR with ceramic cryo'd fuses, Signal Cable Ultra Double Run speaker cables, Parasound HCA-1500 power amps - vertically bi-amped, Rogue 66 Magnum pre, Jolida 100 CDP, Signal Cable Analog Two IC's, SVS SB-12 sub.

RuSsMaN

Excellent points. You've got to take into account Maggie's quasi-ribbon tech, and pure ribbon tech.

Cheers,
Russ

tonyb

I would be looking up some used Apogee's.Fairly reasonable on
the used market.****,if you want ribbons and a bottom end,skunk
up some Carvers.Maggies are too finicky for my blood.

RuSsMaN

Apogee - better have a 1ohm stable amp.

Carver Amazings - better have at least 1 horsepower per channel / continuous (375w).

Maggies are finicky?

Cheers,
Rooster

tonyb

Finicky as in hard to set up correctly.
+1 on the amps too,but the sound is worth it.

From what my ears remember,Apogee had some glorious tunes comeing out
of them.Agree with the rest of you....go large or not at all.