Speaker cables for Maggie 3.5s

Eagle:

You bring up something I've been wanting to research everytime I look at those stainless steel XO boxes.

Can you describe in more detail what you've done to elminate the XO biwire connections?

Timwat, Basically it's just a matter of eliminating the need for jumpers on the input side of the XO box when using a single run of speaker cables. Once you open the XO boxes you can see how it's wired and goes to the output side to the speaker panels. I have the XO boxes on shelves with vibrapods under them behind the speakers and run twisted pairs of Au15 wire to the panels.
While I was at it I eliminated the fuse and tweeter attenuator connections inside the covers on the panels. If you need more detail or pictures by email, let me know.

I agree with Eagle, fuse and tweeter attenuator bypass is a HUGE improvement- albeit with a risk. I am planning a no holds bars cross over in the next few months, from everything I am told the cross overs are the true weak link with these speakers. For other magnepan users I strongly urge you to try the Jena Labs cables, they are really something amazing(in particular for the money). I have had a lot of cables including- cardas golden cross and golden reference, nordost Valhalla, kharma grand enigma cables, tekline(I don't recall the model #, but it was there flagship), Zu WAX among many many others, and the Jena's put all of them to shame. The closest runner up was the Valhalla and they are fairly close but they are a lot more money- and trust me if I felt they were any better I would have them in my system now.