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.
audiocr381ve
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.
((to Audio connection:
I believe the tweeters are on the outside. Wrong or right?))

wrong try these on the inside you may still like em on the outside but I think you will like them on the inside better.

You still have not answered the Question
Did you try the supplied resistors in where the Tweeter jumpers go
This is more important than any anything.........
Please do both ASAP and let us know
Cheers Johnnyr
The tweeters can go inside OR outside.
You can even flip 'em backwards, so the mylar is to the back and the magnet assembly is to the front. I have mine that way now, and glad I did.

But, don't mess with anything until you have a 'baseline' established.