Anyone familiar with the Manger driver?

Jack--your question is a bit incomprehensible. IF I get the gist: Mangers in a p.a. application, I'd say forget it. You don't have the the spl capacity in the first place.

I own 103 DIY for 10 years now.

Manger is depending (very) much on the electronics. That is somehow a disadvantage. Sometimes I would like to buy an amplifier which got superb reviews and has sensationell look only to find out that the rise time is to slow. Sh... Unfortunately for manger users the amplifier MUST be a fast one and a good one as many people already wrote to get the Best out of these beasts. But this sounds logical. If a speaker performs that well, of course you cannot connect just any amplifier and hope that this will work out wonders - to put it in other words: image fasten just any type of wheels to your ferrari and hope it will perform everytime perfectly well.

Tip: you can add Hologram profiles to the Manger to overcome the dispersion problems at high frequencies.

Another idea would be to activate the Manger. You can order an active module by for example Walter Fuchs former SAC. Activating Manger should be the ultimate solution as many report.

And by the way: even in passive mode the Manger perform exceptional. A Hifi freak which regularly comes to my place tells me every time that my system is the best DIY system he has ever heard. And he has heard quite many systems. He is old he should know it:-) And if you stay on the DIY side the sManger peaker should not come that expensive. Remeber even I own one:-)

Cheers Wolf

Wolf -- what's "hologram profile"

Hi Gregm,

the holoprofiles are a kind of plastic thing which have to be placed on the manger speaker itself. They costs around 400€ per pair.

Advertisment Manger: "Our latest development, the Manger Holoprofile, sets new standards in stereo reproduction. You can finally break free from the limitations of the stereo triangle with our patented sound deflector system."

Here is a link in german, but at least you get an idea and how they look like:
1:http://www.manger-msw.de
2: Select german
3: Click on "Produkte"
4 :Click on "Holoprofil"

Thanks, W.