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| Where are the cheap home streamers? I think I must not understand what people mean by streamers since I would have thought a high quality bluetooth receiver like this one meets almost all of the needs for wirelessly transmitting music to a system:http://szaudiotech.com/product/blt-h... | |
| Pondering a change after 30 odd years... I heard a pair of Spatial Audio X5's today which had all the clarity and transparency of the Maggie 1.7's and then some. Great sounding speaker and definitely something to consider coming from the Acoustat's. The owner preferred the X5 to the Ma... | |
| How do you know what you're missing? I think you are asking a very valid question. After not caring much about music for the past 40 years I’ve jumped into the whole audiophile thing with both feet. I’ve been buying and trying a variety of used equipment. So far I have 3 speakers, 4 ... | |
| Maggies to Tekton? I have the Maggie 1.7's in a large room. Unclear if I have really optimized their placement. Often I am enthralled by the soundstage and precision/definition I hear but other recordings just don't seem to be that engaging which may be the lack o... | |
| laid back stereo power amp You didn't mention your budget but I bought the Crown XLS 1502 to drive my Maggie 1.7's with and I liked it so much I sent it back and upgraded to the XLS 2502. Great full warm sound and definitely not harsh. It is very satisfying to listen to. ... | |
| How much space between cables is enough? If I thought I could hear the difference, I might be willing to spend the hundreds to thousands of dollars on the fancy vibration isolation gizmos but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't. I will say that putting those E.V.A. Anti-Vibration Pad's under m... | |
| How much space between cables is enough? Researching the idea of suspending cables I came across a post on another site about using rebar chairs for this. They come in different sizes and look like they would enable the rubber band trick. Cheap hack if you think it would work. Persona... | |
| My used Magnepan 1.6's are missing sparkly treble. Why? The Spatial Audio speakers look very interested. I think if a used pair of M3's or X5's came up I would probably give them a try. | |
| My used Magnepan 1.6's are missing sparkly treble. Why? I think you are probably right about the 1.6's being fine although I'm probably not going to go to the trouble of hooking them up again to find out. I'll put them up for sale soon and hopefully somebody else will fall in love with them. At the u... | |
| My used Magnepan 1.6's are missing sparkly treble. Why? I thought I should provide an update to my original post. Since I wasn't sure what was going on with the 1.6's and there was a very good used 1.7 for sale locally at a good price I ended up getting that also. Overall I liked the 1.7 better and t... | |
| My used Magnepan 1.6's are missing sparkly treble. Why? 11K is about it for me. I'm curious how high you hear? Assuming this tone generator is accurate you should be able to get a pretty precise measure of the limits of you hearing.https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/ | |
| My used Magnepan 1.6's are missing sparkly treble. Why? I'm not sure if this is simply confirmation bias or what but I did find several different demagnetizing tracks on YouTube and after playing them I think the treble response is improved. It is still somewhat muted but better than it was. I don't... | |
| My used Magnepan 1.6's are missing sparkly treble. Why? I don't know what a Shefield demag disk is. Are you talking about this: https://www.amazon.com/Sheffield-Xlo-Test-Burn-CD/dp/B000025RLX Although that seems like an interesting, if wildly overpriced, product I can't imagine why it would fix anyt... | |
| My used Magnepan 1.6's are missing sparkly treble. Why? Here are some pictures of what is behind that aluminium panel. I assume the other speaker is the same.https://www.dropbox.com/s/x5tt7tqscfu77om/IMG_0019.JPG?dl=0https://www.dropbox.com/s/qoraem5mzc07lte/IMG_0022.JPG?dl=0 | |
| My used Magnepan 1.6's are missing sparkly treble. Why? Thanks for the tip. Lets see if this dropbox link to the JPEG of the back of the speaker works.https://www.dropbox.com/s/3qaj08yrow0nat0/IMG_0017.JPG?dl=0 |