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We are getting the first reports from dealers on the Mini Maggie System. Here are some excerpts from Mark Ormiston, president of Definitive Audio in Seattle."I have it set up on my desk with a Peachtree Nova fed by my laptop. To say it is impressive would be the under statement of my career. So so cool..........Best new product for me since the Goldmund reference turntable when I was twenty four years old."
Looks like they're no more efficient than the big ones.
So can you bi-amp the Mini Maggies like the big ones? I believe some people are even tri-amping their larger Maggies.Are there any power levels that could damage the Mini Maggies? Is a 300B set amp too little and a 1000wpc Class D amp too much for the Mini Maggies? Is any speaker damage due to underpowered or overpowered amps covered under Magnepan's warranty?Are there any estimates as to the relative power requirements for the woofer panel versus the tweeter/midrange panels
How about adding a second DWM woofer to the Mini Maggies? Is stereo separated bass be more desirable than centered combined bass? I'm not sure if this is an accurate description, but I assume that the DWM does not provide any stereo separation by itself but may tend to blend the separated tweeter/midrange panels together?Since the DWM woofer has inputs for both L+R channels, does that mean that you have to feed signal to both L+R inputs for the DWM woofer to be fully energized? In otherwords, is there any reason to feed a mono signal to the L+R amp inputs on the DWM since nothing is being blended?
.... Please bear in mind I say none of those things to be contrarian. It is my eventual goal to have an ultimate system, and if that means I need tubes, so be it. I only say those things because even now, as it stands I am getting fantastic sound quality from my amplification stage, and I can't imagine much more improvement from a quality standpoint, anything from here would be incremental, amp wise.
It's just I've come across so many statements by users who prefered my amp versus such and such tube amp, or even the new ClassD amps, where users are claiming the long held advantages of tube amps are over.