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The same if not better performance can be had for pennies on the dollar getting one of Danny Richie's upgrade kits over at GR-Research. In fact, considering Danny's vast knowledge and experience over the many years of redesigning and tweaking crossovers for various high-end loudspeaker manufacturers, I'm willing to bet there's been a lot more engineering and tweaking that's gone into his upgrades than Magnepan's own upgrades, and thus more gains/improvements from Danny's upgrades.
The 1.7X is $4000 more than the 1.7i exc.
And you know this how? I am just playing devils advocate. Magnepan designs their own speakers and I assume have done a lot of R&D for these upgrades. And besides, not everyone is willing to take apart a Magnepan and do the upgrades themselves. I considered doing the GR upgrade for my 1.6's and I am handy with a soldering iron but I am not willing to take the chance that I break something.
I'm happy they don't have an upgrade available for the LRS+....I don't have anything to stress over
Things that make you go, "Hmmmmm..."
Isn't 12/31 when they hold the Blessing Of The Planars?
BTW, isn’t that Latin? Is that the webpage for the Vatican?
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They've done direct sales on the 1.7s before and then all those years with the MMGs.I'm looking forward to seeing what the deal is with the new speakers, especially the $4000 price hike between the 2.7i and the 2.7x.Also, is this list price or retail where you haggle?
I dont understand how this manufacturer still in the business, since the 1980s I see they have the same product:86dB and 4ohms (3 ohms most of the range) presence of a Crossover more 2 protection Fuses and more midrange and tweeter attenuators. This will require a monster huge amp stable at 2 ohms impedance for safe operation.If they don't know how to improve the product should talk to someone who knows how to do like Bob Carver or Maggie could licence the great sound Carver Amazing Ribbon 48 or 60 inches tall, 88dB, 8ohms, range 200 to 40kHz as Gilmore Audio do in the past, Amazing dont needed a Crossover in 1992($2400 48inches). Too bad they are stagnant for so long.
I don't know this, but am pretty sure "this" would be the case. It's what Danny is known for. For years, Danny's had loudspeaker manufacturers come to him for either helping them in the crossover design or leaving it completely up to him to come up with the design... Or to do tweaks to the design to make them better. Magnepan's crossovers are very basic. I don't believe there's any correction circuits in their "stock" designs to take care of certain dips or peaks, etc, etc. They are just a simple dividing network for bass, midrange and treble (or bass panel, tweeter & super tweeter) as they call it. Who knows though?... I could be totally wrong and Magnepan addresses the same exact issues that Danny did. Maybe they bought one of his kits and called it their own. I have no idea. But one thing I do know is that you get a heck of a lot more bang for the buck giving Danny $409 for his 1.7/1.7i kit vs giving Magnepan $4000 for their 1.7/1.7i kit to pretty much reach the same result. I know that Danny's design puts a 2nd order slope on the tweeter as well as run the speaker as a true 2-way (running both "voice coils" in the tweeter in series). I've read elsewhere that Magnepan did the same for one customer's upgrade. I don't know if they do that automatically or just upon request. Either way, if you don't feel comfortable digging into your loudspeakers, I'm sure you can find a family member, a nearby forum member, a friend or some local shop to perform the upgrades for you for a whole lot less than $4k. And that's the point of my entire argument really. It's the absurd prices Magnepan is charging for these upgrades. Maybe $1k at best plus shipping both ways, but NOT $4k. Anywho...
I bet they'll come out with an upgrade for the LRS+ way before they ever come out with that "woofer-not-subwoofer" thing they keep blabbering about.