New Magnaplanar 1.7 delaminating and buzzing.


Why are new diaphrams buzzing and seperating from the frame?

barmeg

I have, it's been 6 weeks and one was shipped for repair and lost in transit in New York and the other panel unglued from the frame just sitting and waiting for it's mate to be repaired, in a heated house. I bought them brand new in January and the diaphragms just started buzzing and shrinking back. This is unacceptable for  a premium set of loudspeakers costing $3200.00. They sounded  amazing for a month though! 

Really sorry to hear about your experience. It must be really frustrating. Appearenty there was a manufacturing problem… you probably got consecutively produced speakers.

It is a real shame your dealer just didn’t give you a replacement the moment he heard about this. Mine would have given me his demo pair until I received my repaired unit.

Call Magnepan and ask about your repair and what you should do with the other one. I'm not sure how the new design can buzz but see if you can get them to clarify the issue. 

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Thanks for the good advice guys - as far as sound performance and clarity, I am more than amazed at these 1.7’s. They may not be the best deal or the best in impedance characteristics but everything I audition on them just reveals so much unstrained detail. My amp never falters and I couldn’t use near their volume potential in my 13 x 17 room. The problem is that the vertical adhesive strip on the woofer side of the front diaphragm just came unglued and the vibrating panel isn’t held taunt to the frame. Bad epoxy or newby oversight - something is compromised here. What a shame because there’s a lot of steps needed to correct this and so many formerly conscientious producers of everything have stopped giving a crap anymore - if you know what I mean.