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Magnepan 1.7 too bright, HELP

I just bought a used 6 month old Magnepan 1.7 and hooked them to my old system, which consists on a Deonon 2900 Universal player, Emotiva USP Preamp and Rotel 1080 power amp and use anticables for speaker connections, and monster cables for interconnects.

The sound is too bright for me, I used the provide 1 ohm resisters, still too bright, any recommendations.
bnrimal
macdadtexas
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Good call, as the W4S breaks in, you will get more bass. Not booming bass, but down to the 42 hrz range, that Magnepan advertises. I love the Bass on Maggies, especially the bigger models, it's very tight and fast.

The amps I currently use with mine have incredible bass, and the speakers have measured consistantly down to 32 hrz in this imperfect room. The kick drum always sounds great, in fact I can listen to Outlandas D'Amour over and over again, just to listen to Stewart Copelands drum work, especially on the kick drum, and the high hats on the other end.

Spinning that record right now!!
dsper
663 posts
 
MacDadTexas,

You have 3.6's correct?

Outlaws of Love - I have never heard that album - first by the Police, right?
macdadtexas
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Oui, Mssr.
sthomas12321
408 posts
 
You can get resistors in tons of variants. I used just a .327 ohm on my 1.6's, and it took off just enough. When I used a 1 ohm on them it took most of the magic away and sounded lifeless.
dsper
663 posts
 
So if I am following this correctly, the 1 ohm resistor took away more energy going to the speaker which reduced the sound compared to the .327 ohm resistor which took away less energy and kept more to produce the sound at the speaker.

Do I have this right?

If so, it seems like a resistor is supposed to be an inexpensive way to correct how a component sounds?
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