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Pets.... cats could get to like a 6 ft high scratching post. But I had three cats that understood that my MG3a's were my territory!
They are relatively inefficent and expensive. So I you can afford them, then you can afford an amp that is comfortable with two ohm loads and delivers lots of current. With this, one needs good speaker cables for the current. And place the outboard x-over real close to the amp and bi-wire from there.
I have had my Maggies since 1993? I rebuilt the tweeters once.
Maggies are big and are di-pole speakers. The positioning is critical and must be set out from a wall in the back. If placed too close to a wall, they will not work well. They will not develop bass well in a small room or volume. So speaker position and 'wife' issues need to be taken into account. You will not be happy if they are moved with furniture rearrangements.
Never let anyone clean the speakers, a vacuum cleaner will tear that .0002" tweeter elememt. I have never has a problem with kids wanting to tough or investigate the maggies. A box speaker always invites finger poking of the tweeters etc.
I have a pair of very good Velodyne survo subwoofers in stereo mode. The maggies do not have deep base! So perhaps a lesser maggie with subs would make more sense and let the woofer do more. But the 5 foot long tweeter is the strength of the system that I would not want to loose if selecting a smaller maggie that the 3.x series.
The maggies are very revealing and lack the coloration of that many box speakers have, but some box speakers may excell in other areas. The maggies are for moderately loud duty but are totally wrong for very loud levels. Get the maggies for accuracy. These will allow you to hear changes upstream*. If you have any distortion in the CD player or amp etc, the maggies will let you also be more critical of what you hear. So it is safe to say that any revealing speaker is unforgiving of distortion in the recordings or electronics.
* just upgrading the RCA sockets on a CD player or amp can be heard, even by the wife...
I have upgraded the x-over caps in the MG3a's. Worked very well. Everything that I own is modified except the Velodynes. My current amp is a slightly modified Aragon 8008 which is DC input coupled and DC (servo) output coupled. Prior amp was Adcom 555 with extreme mods. Peramp is heavily modified vac tube Conrad Johnson PV5.
In my mod intensive days, we found that changes to op-amps in CD players make significant differences when in theory, there was no explaination for this. My CD player has 'K' level selected instrument grade D-A converts. Those were a pain to R&R. Burr-Brown is now owned by Texas Instruments.
, Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:01:54
, Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:03:14, Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:05:07, Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:43:20
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