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New Magnepan 1.7 Owner

Hi guys. I'm the proud owner of really, my first pair of Magneplanar speakers (I only spent a few days with the MG12 and decided to upgrade). I picked up my 1.7's yesterday in the aluminum trim. I will post a review soon.

Anyway, I wanted to ask a few questions about the simplest of upgrades, replacing the tweeter jumpers and fuses.

I need recommendations on fuses and most importantly, where I can purchase them. Also, I don't know much about electronics but I think the value of the fuse is the same as the 1.6 correct? 4A Large Fast Blow?

Also, tweeter jumpers. I have some Audioquest Banana connectors and some Audioquest speaker wire, should I remove the stock jumpers and replace them?

Thanks guys, much appreciated.
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darkkeys
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Audiocr, did you mention your room size and speaker placement as in distance from room boundaries? Thanks
aceneuf
1 posts
 
Wanna know how the 1.7 sound? I've been breaking them in for several months now and this is my setup.

Tweeters on the inside. The speaker with the serial number ending in 2 is on the left when facing the speaker from the front.

Serial # 2 Serial #1

Anti-cable speaker wires and interconnects connected to a
NAD C375BEE integrated amp 150 watts 8 ohms.

Cambride Audio DacMagic and a Trends USB Audio Converter UD-10 lite with an Impact Velocity interconnect to my PC.

Foobar Software playing my files which are all ripped with EAC software.

Finally a PSB 5i subwoofer set at 150 crossover and volume set extremely low like 1/3 to the first dot. Connected with Impact Acoustics Sonicwave speaker cable.

How does it sound? Wow, wow, wow!!! and all less than $4500.00
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melville
22 posts
 
Is anyone running 1.6s or 1.7s with modest Class A SS power? I have an Accuphase A30, which has only 60 watts/4 ohms, but lots of current.
clavil
254 posts
 
has somebody tried with one of these:

http://www.wyred4sound.com/webapps/site/74030/117839/shopping/shopping-plusB.html?find_groupid=18158
ahendler
416 posts
 
I run 1.6's with 85 watt tube amp and can also easily drive my maggies to earth shattering volumes with 40 watt triode mode with my VTL ST-85 You need amps with large energy storage power supplies which tube amps generraly have
Alan
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