New Magnepan 1.7 Owner

Congratulations. Tell us its secrets when you can....

Well, I'm making progress, but as of now I am missing my Monitor Audio RS6's.

I'll start with saying I haven't done any mods to the speakers and that my room is supposedly horrid for the 1.7s. It's VERY hard to get these speakers sounding enjoyable if you don't have an adequate room. My MA RS6's are kicking their asses in every respect right now. I've tried 3 different stereo amplifiers, the NAD C272, Rotel RB-1080, and now I'm testing out a pro audio amp, the QSC RMX1450 @ 450wpc @ 4 ohms. Haven't gotten to do much A/B'ing between amps but my initial reaction to the pro amp is a very good and surprising one.

Anyway, I'm pretty much trying to take a Ferrari off roading right now. Next step is diffusion and absorbtion. I'll check in soon.

Audiocr, did you mention your room size and speaker placement as in distance from room boundaries? Thanks

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

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.