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Magico S5 Speaker - SET UP ADVICE PLEASE - Tow-In - Etc.

Any Magico Owners or Dealers or Folks or anyone that may have some basic advice, ideas or feedback from hearing or seeing in a friends, dealers system or owned older version of Magico or something like or anything really that can help me? How are yours or theirs set up? The smallest moves makes huge changes and I am coming from speakers that are so very different so any and all feedback would so welcomed.

I CAN EMAIL YOU PICS of Room / Set up / Etc  fsmthjack at YAH00

THANK YOU

BACKGROUND INFO:

ROOM:                         24 x 14 with cathedral ceilings 
MUSIC:                        Good mix - no hard metal / large orchestra and the like
LOUDNESS:                normal levels - just loud enough to sound best
SPEAKERS                  Magico S5 Speakers
AMP:                            Pass Labs X350.5 Amp
SOURCE:                     Bricasti M1SE DAC
TRANSPORT:               mircoRendu 1.4 w/Full suite of Uptone Audio products
CABLES                       HiDiamond Full Loom 
CONDITIONER            HiDiamond HDX2
SUBWOOFERS           (2) Sumiko S.9 Subs (hoping not needed with new Magico's) 

Thanks guys - I am kind of lost here and any help or feedback to get me heading in the right directions would be so appreciated.







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fsmithjack OP
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Yes I took both Reds and assumed that meant both go to right channel and the two wires were then put into a single spade to easier to deal with install - I figured that is the same as apply both via bare wire to the same channel and makes install - unstall easier then wrapping each wire around each speaker terminal - that was annoying and what I did at first and did the same for yellows and backs?? Should I have mixed the yellow and red rather than combining red with red and yellow with yellow. It's so easy to mess this stuff up ???
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Should I have mixed the yellow and red rather than combining red with red and yellow with yellow?
Yes.

Connecting red and yellow to different channels is necessary when only one sub is being used. But it defeats a lot of the benefit that using two subs can provide, because the subs would no longer be able to reproduce low frequency information that differs between the two channels.

So as I indicated in my previous post...
...electrically connect left sub red to left sub yellow, and connect that combination to the amp’s left channel +, while connecting right sub red to right sub yellow, and connecting that combination to the amp’s right channel +.
And yes, properly connecting a sub or subs can be tricky, as different situations (one sub vs. two; balanced amp vs. single-ended amp; monoblocks vs. stereo amp, etc.) can call for different approaches.

Best regards,
-- Al


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Absolutely easy to use a soldering iron if you are handy at any form of DIY. The only thing you have to be careful of is to "tin" the wire a bit before soldering the connection and in order to make a good solder you must get everything heated up - so a bead of solder touching wire and connector and iron tip will do the trick.

I am sure their are YouTube videos about soldering. The only thing you can't fix is SMC components as that requires a special iron but most high end audio is discrete anyway.
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fdpdk
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There was also another poster that mentioned something that you might take into account, maybe the former owner did not play music on them for many hours, meaning that your speakers are maybe not even broken in. That could also explain a lot.
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