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| Maggie 1.6QR amplification questions Elevick...Carver "least detail"? That's subjective, and you are entitled to an opinion, but it doesn't agree with what others say or what I hear with my Maggies. However, the remark about low bass is flat out wrong. Hey: these amps are designed to... | |
| Maggie 1.6QR amplification questions Carver ZR 1600. $800 plus change. Superb. Particularly with MG 1.6. | |
| Need strong passive FM Antenna. Help I live in western Mass (Stockbridge) which is a "fringe" area if not the "boonies".If you are down in a deep valley, no antenna will work. How does your car radio work when parked outside your condo?Anything on the roof, especially with a rotator ... | |
| Going to take the plunge. Huntermusic ...Look before you leap! It's like getting married. | |
| Maggies on my mind. Cwlondon...You mention the heavy oak "U" shaped moldings on those old Maggies. Well, when I scrapped my original MG2 I salvaged the oak, and cut it down to "L" shape. Since I had three speakers, I ended up with an awful lot of really nice oak mold... | |
| Parametric EQ for Mid-bass Hump? I know that electronic equalization is used effectively with large halls, but I have found it rather ineffective in correcting the usual small room response LF "hump". Large amounts of boost or cut seem to have little effect. For the higher freque... | |
| where do you cross over your ht setup Vedric...Agreed that LF from a SW has directional aspects which should be preserved. (Unless you are playing an LP where the LF has already been mixed to mono). I think that every speaker should have its own SW: at least 2, and I have 3. However, ... | |
| Analog a dying breed Zaikesman..."Audiophilecentric" really does not describe me...after all I did persevere to listen to these historic recordings in spite of their problems. Your suggestion that they might have been 78s may well be correct, and perhaps the program p... | |
| where do you cross over your ht setup Vedric...I read your earlier post. Sorry, but I believe that a 25Hz crossover (mains) is just about the same as no crossover. 35 Hz (center) and 40 Hz rears barely qualify as a X/O (IMHO). Remember that no crossover is a complete cutoff, and there... | |
| Analog a dying breed Yesterday I happened to be listening to the local NPR FM radio station, and they were playing various LP's of historic performances of classical music, mostly from the 1940s. The LF rumble was simply awful, and it was on the discs, not the turntab... | |
| Can you switch out drivers from another company??? Subaruguru...I suppose that making chicken soup can be turned into rocket science! :) In particular it isn't rocket science to know that a SMALLER capacitor (not a larger one) will raise the tweeter X/O frequency.Tweeter substitution is a piece of... | |
| where do you cross over your ht setup Vedric...Take off the grill and look at what your woofer is doing while it reproduces 20 Hz (or even 30 Hz). Do you want that going on while it is trying to reproduce the critical 80-800 Hz range? Same goes for the power amp. | |
| Maggies on my mind. America...You are going to love the Carver ZR1600, and your Maggies will love you for it. No speaker responds more to amplifier brute force like Maggies. I have run my set of three MG1.6 with amps ranging from 100 watts to the Carver at 600, and e... | |
| Can you switch out drivers from another company??? Suggestion...To minimize experimental cost, try doing one speaker, and then compare results with the other one. Assuming the nominal impedance of the two tweeters match, the crossover network will probably be OK except perhaps for the tweeter "pad... | |
| Is solid state on the brink of extinction? Marakanetz...Digital amps are not all that complicated, in fact all audio amplifier circuitry is rather simple compared with other types of electronics. In practice, all the complexity of the digital amp is in one module that you buy from TriPath ... |