donberry
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I have actually been wanting a pair of magnepan MG1.6, but those are a definite no-no as far as the waf. Came across these SL3 for what I thought was a good price so thought I would give them a try. After I bought them, so I doubt he was lying, the guy told me he had changed the panels out about 5 years ago, which I thought was a great thing and made the price seem even better.
Sound wise, about what I expected except the bass. Was very surprised as to my ears anyway, it sure seemed pretty seamless to me and do not see how anyone would need a sub with these things. It may only go to 30hz, but it is tight and sounds great to me. I do have a ML Abyss sub, doubt if I even hook it up to these.
Midrange was not as liquid as the Magnepan, imo, but is still very good and a huge plus on the aesthetics. The Magnepans look like they were made by cheap child labor after seeing the SL3.
Of course I like to tinker, so was wondering if anyone had the schematics to these as the first thing I like to take a look at are the capacitors. Not sure what I would use until I saw the values, hate to take them apart just to see.
I normally use Dynamicaps and maybe some Obbligato premium oil filled, but again, need to see what is in it as I may have to go a little higher up the capacitor chain on these things.
I tried them out at first just using one amp, a restored Pioneer Spec 2 with a Conrad Johnson PV2AR that has been modified, then I biamped them using a restored Bose 1801 amp (around 600wpc into 4 ohms - weighs 90 pounds. Is not the Bose crap u may be thinking of) on the woofers with the Spec 2 on the panels. Sounds much better.
Thinking I want to get a tube amp to drive the panels -any idea what the minimum wpc should be for this ? At fairly high volumes, the meters on my Spec 2 were barely working, so I figured anything over 50wpc should do ?
I would put the Spec 2 on the woofers.
Now that my speakers have gotten a tad better, is also time for me to upgrade speaker wire, so will be doing some research on that, and any recommendations are appreciated.....
Would really like to find out the cap values without having to open them up.....thanks
Sound wise, about what I expected except the bass. Was very surprised as to my ears anyway, it sure seemed pretty seamless to me and do not see how anyone would need a sub with these things. It may only go to 30hz, but it is tight and sounds great to me. I do have a ML Abyss sub, doubt if I even hook it up to these.
Midrange was not as liquid as the Magnepan, imo, but is still very good and a huge plus on the aesthetics. The Magnepans look like they were made by cheap child labor after seeing the SL3.
Of course I like to tinker, so was wondering if anyone had the schematics to these as the first thing I like to take a look at are the capacitors. Not sure what I would use until I saw the values, hate to take them apart just to see.
I normally use Dynamicaps and maybe some Obbligato premium oil filled, but again, need to see what is in it as I may have to go a little higher up the capacitor chain on these things.
I tried them out at first just using one amp, a restored Pioneer Spec 2 with a Conrad Johnson PV2AR that has been modified, then I biamped them using a restored Bose 1801 amp (around 600wpc into 4 ohms - weighs 90 pounds. Is not the Bose crap u may be thinking of) on the woofers with the Spec 2 on the panels. Sounds much better.
Thinking I want to get a tube amp to drive the panels -any idea what the minimum wpc should be for this ? At fairly high volumes, the meters on my Spec 2 were barely working, so I figured anything over 50wpc should do ?
I would put the Spec 2 on the woofers.
Now that my speakers have gotten a tad better, is also time for me to upgrade speaker wire, so will be doing some research on that, and any recommendations are appreciated.....
Would really like to find out the cap values without having to open them up.....thanks