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The 12's have very VERY unique cable requirements among Maggies

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In Reply to: RE: Cables recommendations for Magnepan mg12s? posted by greenamyer on September 22, 2012 at 20:25:06

The best 2 options short of spending a few $k are:

1. Magnepan's special order speaker hookup wire for the 12's. These are only available in 6" tuned polarity pairs. One places the power amp smack between the front-to-front 12's and there is usually good space left for the listener's head on a thin recliner. Order the blue type for this normal orientation. For listening to the pole piece, ask for the purple style.

2. Car battery jumper cables, terminated with banana ear plugs available from Chiquita Audio Specialties. Guaranteed never to be too bright.

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RE: The 12's have very VERY unique cable requirements among Maggies - old guy 42 06:44:45 09/24/12 (5)
Hi. J

Can you give me a link to "Chiquita Audio Specialties". :-)

Take care.....old guy
- RE: The 12's have very VERY unique cable requirements among Maggies - JBen 15:47:45 09/24/12 (4)
  You know, OG42, at one time I thought that you had the 12s...I almost sent you this wire recipe. It turned out that you have MMGs, after all. The banana ear plugs are not good for MMGs.
  
  So, I am sending you the "toothpaste cable tweak" that works so well with my MMGs. Dawnrazor is going to kill me for prostituting his magwire formula once again!
  
  Anyway, the original tweak avoided the new whitening stuff that they now add, which keeps messing speaker balance. Sure, I am now getting superb imaging & soundstage results with "Crest 3D White". But what good is it if I have to turn my seat towards my neighbor's side! It is now almost impossible to get good'ol basic toothpaste.
  
  Take care! (oh, I am still writing the descriptions for the other stuff.)
  - RE: The 12's have very VERY unique cable requirements among Maggies - old guy 42 01:40:18 09/25/12 (3)
    Hi. J
    
    I appreciate your wanting to share the "toothpaste tweak", but I thought that was Dawnrazor's "Double secret proprietary tweak". You might be in hot water if you share!!!
    
    "Crest 3D White"...LOL
    - RE: The 12's have very VERY unique cable requirements among Maggies - JBen 11:22:35 09/25/12 (2)
      OG42, sorry but the toothpaste tricks are (really) a traditional thing of mine. My friends still kid me about it since my college days.
      
      It all started with the first magnetic cartrige I was able to afford for my turntable. It was an Empire. The sucker had lousy tracking at any reasonable weight. Then I read somewhere that Empire hardly used damping for the stylus shaft. I had nothing else at hand, so I figured that toothpaste could do the trick for a test. It sure did!
      
      After that, I used it as temporary damping in a number of other electronic things.
      
      Word got out the day that one of my friends was in my room listening to Carmina Burana. He joked that the recording was so clear that he could actually "smell fresh mint" from the singers' breath. I was dumb enough to tell about the toothpaste.
      
      Years later, my friends made sure to tell my soon-to-be wife! Since then, when something needs fixing she always asks me if I tried the toothpaste.
      - Hahaha ... great story, JBen. ... - andyr 04:24:51 09/26/12 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: The 12's have very VERY unique cable requirements among Maggies posted by JBen on September 25, 2012 at 11:22:35
        
        The moral of that story is surely ... friends may be friends but you never ever share that sort of personal info with them! :-))
        
        I learned that 40 years ago when I was foolish enough to send a letter (yes, waaay before email! :-)) ) to a school-mate of mine who had announced he was engaged. I admonished him for doing something that stupid, saying his amorata was surely only after his money. Several years later, when I myself was married, my wife and I stayed for a weekend with this school-friend ... who proceeded to bring out this letter! :-(( It was a "difficult" weekend! :-))
        
        Regards,
        
        Andy
        
        RE: those old letters of the non-email kind - JBen 14:29:44 09/26/12 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Hahaha ... great story, JBen. ... posted by andyr on September 26, 2012 at 04:24:51
        
        They do tend to have a lurking life of their own, don't they? There are a couple of those out there that I wrote in my youth. I've always, amusingly, feared that they will pop up at their right "worst moment".
        
        Luckily, all they could prove is that I was once young and foolish. Since then, I can claim, I have improved 50% plus, since I am no longer the former. LOL
Haha - excellent! :-)) nt - andyr 19:27:41 09/23/12 (0)
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