The problem with these speakers is that they play extremely clean with no sign of breakup. They really just start sounding good (to me) at 95db as I recall. At somewhere around that point, most amps run out of headroom, or perhaps there is a finite point to the amount of current they'll take. And then, zap goes the fuses and the tweeter (which makes little sense to me since the fuse should protect the tweeter from getting too much current whether the amp is clipping or not).
Don't get me wrong, I love the sound of these speakers and even sold them for an audio store twenty years ago, but to my mind, the 3.6s must have a flaw, since I owned the MG-IIIs for 15 years and never blew out a tweeter with the same equipment.
Magnepan was mistified and could not help me solve the problem, so I sold the speakers and bought a pair of Revel Salons.
There are times I'm tempted to try the Maggies again, (I loved the Typani 4s) but will stay away until Magnepan addresses these problems. With the high end equipment that I've owned (even biamping them) those tweets and fuses should not be a concern.
My advise is to look elsewhere for speakers as you will not get the volume you appear to like without many heartaches.
Don't get me wrong, I love the sound of these speakers and even sold them for an audio store twenty years ago, but to my mind, the 3.6s must have a flaw, since I owned the MG-IIIs for 15 years and never blew out a tweeter with the same equipment.
Magnepan was mistified and could not help me solve the problem, so I sold the speakers and bought a pair of Revel Salons.
There are times I'm tempted to try the Maggies again, (I loved the Typani 4s) but will stay away until Magnepan addresses these problems. With the high end equipment that I've owned (even biamping them) those tweets and fuses should not be a concern.
My advise is to look elsewhere for speakers as you will not get the volume you appear to like without many heartaches.