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In Reply to: RE: Where are your Acoustats? posted by Satie on September 22, 2010 at 12:56:00
commitment?
I have two rooms for speakers--my personal dad space where I watch movies tv listen to music play xbox and the listening room that is currently being set up in the master bedroom where the stats are going.
I have so many projects to get done with no time or money to do them
1- room acoustics for both rooms
2- acquire new amp for my personal room
3- set up stats and equipment in listening room (which involve massive furniture moving)
4- chokes for maggies
5- send servo tube monoblocks to get updated and mods
6- get to the guts of the 1.6's
7- mye stands
8- new squeezebox touch
and the list goes on
room acoustics I have a decent grasp on, amp - its either anthem or emotiva, moving furniture requires at least three strong men and four full days (2 armoir, king size bed, fan removal, ect), CHOKES? no idea what parts i need or where they go-NEED HELP-, servo amp mod 3grand-ouch, as far as maggie guts I have absolutely NO IDEA what Im doing at all-really no clue-dont even know where to start-NEED HELP, mye stands no problem probable audiogon, squeezebox easy cant wait --
Daunting but doable
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Well we have a few things I can help you with.
The servo amp upgrade is outside my area.
I am not there, so I can't help you with moving - besides my bad back would not give you much assistance.
Choke - best is to make one out of speaker wire - simply a small value coil. What are you using for speaker wire on the 1.6 now?
I can help you with amps. Quite a few others can contribute.
Thanks for your help Satie--
Im using crappy monster speaker cable but plan to upgrade...Im thinking about anticables..seems like a good deal and people seem to like them..Im not sure I buy into the high priced cables thing..In terms of interconnects I have noticed a huge difference between my crappy monster and audioquest..I a/b tested them and heard an improvement with the audioquest.
Peloton,
If you are thinking your panels, the 1.6s are a little 'hot' on the top end, try an experiment.
Take you 20 minutes TOPS. I promise.
Just rotate them in place. Magnepan has them configured to listen to the mylar side. In the 'old days', you listened to the pole piece side. I toe mine so they cross well behind me. great balance.
I prefer the pole piece to listen to. smoother, less strident highs and a bigger sweet spot.
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Too much is never enough
I tried it and it sounds strange and thin. I remember you mentioning in other threads that you love it like that all cadywhompus but its just not for me, but thanks.
you have to swap R with L, to keep the tweeters in the same relative place. Otherwise, you have made 2 changes:
* metal vs. mylar (or vice versa), and
* ribbons out vs. ribbons in (or vice versa).
Putting ribbons out when you had them in before, could give you " thin "! :-))
Regards,
Andy
important thing is that at least you tried it......
I can't account for 'strange and thin', but who knows?
Too much is never enough
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