New Magnepan 1.7 Owner

Utley
Do you have the tweeters on the inside or outside?
Have you installed any of the supplied Resistors where the tweeter jumpers are yet?
Cheers Johnnyr

I, just this weekend set up a new pair out of the box hooked up to a Mcintosh 6600 integrated. It was dynamic, smooth and not at all harsh. I can't not substantiate the claim of, "I am finding th sound thick(improved aftermuch placement efforts) and the upper midrange hard." You may indeed need to change out associated gear.

to Audio connection:
I believe the tweeters are on the outside. Wrong or right?

To Ibog1: Doesn't the Mcintsh 6600(I heard them in NYC) cost three time the price of the speakers? They damn well should do the job. I will probably go with some version of Bryston? Any opinions?

Many thanks......You are all great

You need to put atleast 300 hrs on them before any serious, critical listening evaluation. To speed it up put some brown noise on repeat on your cd player to help with breakin. I also started with tweeters out but changed to inside position and the sound began to gel. I did change fuses to HiFi tuning 4a fast blow fuses. They are directional and need to be pointing towards the floor. I also replaced metal tweeter attenuator bar with a short jumper. If you are adventurous you can unscrew and remove plate on back and move the red wire from the fuse holder directly to the negative terminal and bypass fuse and tweeter attenuator. If you want to keep the fuse intact you can take black wire from bottom of fuse holder directly to negative terminal and bypass tweeter attenuator.

I'd wait until the speakers were run in before making ANY changes.
Do your initial setup than wait for maybe 20 or 30 playing hours.
readjust. Repeat until 100->200 hours or the urge to readjust passes.
Poster above likes 300 hours. Mine were about 80% at 50 or 60 hours with the balance over the next 100 or so. No beef with waiting longer, though.

THAN bridge the fuse out of the circuit and install the jumper of your choice.

I even ended up tweeters IN with toe to cross just behind my listening position. This gives a large sweet spot and good image. I also have the Mylar to the BACK not the front as issued by Magnepan. Sweet.