Topic: Mixing Maggies?

[jpschust]

i want to find you the exact answer to this before i go straight to answering this (meaning i know the answer but i cant phrase it properly at the moment)- give me a touch of time

[jpschust]

you CAN indeed run straight into your amp.

[Brian Skalinder]

Ooooo...I hadn't been to the Magnepan site in a while.  They now have the MMG surround system.  Very interesting.  Still want some bigger Maggies for the front, but adding the MMG-Ws to the rear and the -C to the front could be sweet.  And I'll just have to keep my regular MMGs to put in the home office.  

[jpschust]

Brian, check out some of the other quasi ribbons for your fronts- you can get away from using the MMG's and go to something a bit bigger.  I really dig my 10.1QRs.  you can come over and take a listen any time you like (well once my system is out of constant flux)

[jjjewett]

so i CAN just go straight from my D/A or firewire 410 to a power amp.  That will be sweet.  I am gonna get a SKB case and mount the poweramp, 410 and route the cables in the back, then mabey down the road add a motherboard, lcd screen, and dvd player in it to have a fully capable dvd-a playback system in one rack.  drool

so can you guys recomment a good 2/5/8 channel power amp that will drive the maggies for under 400??

thanks in advance.

john

[jpschust]

as long as you have some form of control over the analog volume, yes.  

like i reccomended before i think the B&K ST-140 will drive your maggies nicely and it comes in at like 250ish.  You need to be careful about mounting consumer power amps into racks- they need a lot of room to shed heat.  

[jjjewett]

You need to be careful about mounting consumer power amps into racks- they need a lot of room to shed heat.  

good to know.  Is there any rack-mounted poweramps out there for speakers??

john

[jpschust]

there are but they are for PA's primarily.  why do you want to rackmount in specific?

[jjjewett]

ok,  my idea is to get a skb rack (4 to 8 high) and then in it mount my firewire 410, my lucid D/A, and my mindprint A/D.  Then i also want to mount an amp for speakers one the bottom.  Then in the middle, hidden behind a grate rack plate, mount a motherboard in it, I could also have a dvd drive in it to and a lcd if i really wanted.  That way i would have everything in my stereo for playback and recording in one place.  I could just wire my speakers to it and also have a wifi card in it to get tunes from my audio server.

what do you think??

[jpschust]

i think as nice of an idea as it sounds you should look into getting some audio shelving instead.  first off, racks don't provide the best isolation from vibration, second they aren't the best at keeping things cool.  

[Brian Skalinder]

Brian, check out some of the other quasi ribbons for your fronts- you can get away from using the MMG's and go to something a bit bigger.  I really dig my 10.1QRs.  you can come over and take a listen any time you like (well once my system is out of constant flux)

Thanks for the offer, Jonny.  I'm definitely gonna replace the MMGs up front one of these days.  Trying to save a bit of cash for the move back to Chicago in September, so it'll likely be sometime this fall.  

[Nick Culbreth]

as long as you have some form of control over the analog volume, yes.  

like i reccomended before i think the B&K ST-140 will drive your maggies nicely and it comes in at like 250ish.  You need to be careful about mounting consumer power amps into racks- they need a lot of room to shed heat.  

i'd second this reccomendation, i power my maggies with a st-140 and i'm very happy with the combination.

[Nick's Picks]

while I love (and started a trend on this list?) the ST-140>MMG combo, I wouldn't go that route for a home theatre.  That old B&K is 2 channels.
what I would do, is look for the the 3 channel B&K ...whos model number escapes me, but I know it exists.  And then maybe use the 140 as a cheap amp for the rears.

the $1000 maggie home theatre kit has been on my wish list for a home theatre system ever since I read the first glowing review of them (w/the ICBM bass controll system in place as well) in stereophile.

I often think back to my maggies....and miss their open, detailed sound.  I hated being confined to a 10" sweet spot where all the emotion lived.