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In Reply to: RE: 3.6s can play LOUD! posted by yawg on October 25, 2010 at 01:11:39:
Another fact to consider in my case:When my ribbon got shredded with the fuses intact I was bi-amping with only the humble 50W Class A Musical Fidelity monos driving the mids and treble of my Maggies. And the volume was even higher than this time when only the fuses blew. The bass monos were the same, Marantz MA-700 with 300W into 4 Ohms.
My EARs deliver 200W/ch. into 4 or 8 Ohms, there are two taps. But when I tried the 4-Ohm taps earlier the sound was kinda hollow and thin. I often read in tube amp reviews that the reviewers always found their amps sounded better on the higher-Ohm taps (I remember a review of the big Audio Research monos in Stereophile).
Thinking again about what Wazoo stated - that the 3.6R can put out earsplitting volume levels, I must disagree. With strong bass transients in the material - like Kruder & Dorfmeister "Reset" - the bass panels are already making loud popping noise before the music gets real loud. And this happens when the bass panels are driven by the 300W monos, not even bigger Pass amps.
Maybe Magnepan keeps the sh***y factory XOs so the bass panels never get so much current that they can hit the stators. As I stated earlier, strong transients just get burned in the tiny inductors that go into saturation mode very quickly. Sort of a bass fuse ;-)
Regards, Jörg.
Edits: 10/25/10
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