Magnepan Tympani 1D Loudspeakers

giantjazz

I am very interested in these. Are they still available? How do I contact the seller of this site. Bob

dorokusai

mln@polkaudio.com

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Hey Mark,
Excellent speakers, I had the Tympani IB in black when I lived in a small apartment in Parkville. My friends would come over and we'd get pretty juiced up and re-enact the monolith scene from 2001. I'd play the record and we'd reach up and touch the front, then screech and wag our hands, just like a frenzied monkey. I had some lights behind the speakers that shone up across the wall. Pretty cool! I think I used Marantz 7B amps?
Then a several years later I got the ID in white and had them bi-amped with ARC D75 amps and ARC crossover and SP3 for pre-amp. Much larger room. I tried attaching sections of foam at an angle on the back of the speaker. This was to create a variable rear wave absorption, gradually absorbing more lower frequencies for control of the rear wave. I had sliding curtains to move across behind the speakers.
Great fun!
Ken

Ricardo

Kenneth Swauger wrote: »

I'd play the record and we'd reach up and touch the front, then screech and wag our hands, just like a frenzied monkey.

Talk about killing a mental image...this is NOT how I pictured Ken ;)

George Grand

[QUOTE=Kenneth Swauger "My friends would come over and we'd get pretty juiced up and re-enact the monolith scene from 2001. I'd play the record and we'd reach up and touch the front, then screech and wag our hands, just like a frenzied monkey."
Great fun!
Ken[/QUOTE]

There was a certain "aura" or "mystique" about you Ken, that just dissipated.

Great minds and like thinking huh amigo?

Ricardo

Right on George.

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Hello,
Ah, the good ole' days. I'd mix up a pitcher of "strip-and-go-naked" punch (Okinawa version) using Donald Duck frozen lemonade and sit on the floor and listen to Doors, Traffic, Blind Faith, Cream, Beatles, Stones, Donovan, Three Dog Night and Dexter Wansel (let's see if anybody is a Dexter fan?). Then Ithink somebody said, "these look like the monolith from 2001, man!". And the rest happened naturally..as they say. I'm glad this was before camcorders!
Nothing beats a good sound system, great music, "relaxed" atmosphere and good friends, eh George?
Ken

heiney9

Kenneth Swauger wrote: »

Nothing beats a good sound system, great music, "relaxed" atmosphere and good friends
Ken

Very true statement!

H9

George Grand

As a child of the 60's I'm quite familiar with that atmosphere Ken.

And nothing beats Dexter Wansel when you're relaxed.

dorokusai

Kenneth Swauger wrote: »

Hey Mark,
Excellent speakers, I had the Tympani IB in black when I lived in a small apartment in Parkville. My friends would come over and we'd get pretty juiced up and re-enact the monolith scene from 2001. I'd play the record and we'd reach up and touch the front, then screech and wag our hands, just like a frenzied monkey. I had some lights behind the speakers that shone up across the wall. Pretty cool! I think I used Marantz 7B amps?
Then a several years later I got the ID in white and had them bi-amped with ARC D75 amps and ARC crossover and SP3 for pre-amp. Much larger room. I tried attaching sections of foam at an angle on the back of the speaker. This was to create a variable rear wave absorption, gradually absorbing more lower frequencies for control of the rear wave. I had sliding curtains to move across behind the speakers.
Great fun!
Ken

Thanks Ken. They're wonderful but so damn BIG....the wife hates them. Tympani's in an apartment? Awesome I think I'm going to go back to the 3.6 and stop messing around for a long while. That way I can concentrate on hotrodding a couple projects that were put on the backburner. I setup a couple panels behind them and it definitly helped the imaging settle down.