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In Reply to: my plans ... posted by Mart on November 24, 1999 at 09:30:33:
I've heard a speaker setup quite like the one you've choosen and it sounded very good indeed. My personal preference would be to run the maggies full range with a good subwoofer like the REL connected via speaker level. Avoiding the use of a crossover with the maggies would be cleaner and sound more musical IMO.If you're looking for an excellent processor on the cheap and don't mind buying used, consider the Fosgate moder 3A. It is THX rated and has one of the finest matrix surround circuits ever devised. I have seen them used for as little as $400 - not bad considering they listed for $3500 in 1993. Good luck!
In addition to the MGCC1 (demo & used), I'm using the MGLR1s (demo) in the rear mounted horizontally to render a virtual distance via shear width & MG2.7s (used) in front, powered by a Krell KAV-500 (used). To voice match the Krell's current-mode servo sound, I'm using dual Velodyne FSR18s (refurbished) to actively destroy my horrific room acoustic 60hz spike & psuedo-enclosing the rear of the Maggies with egg-crate foam-rubber to quasi-monopole them. I'm currently intending to use CAL:CL-10 -> Geortz:Sapphires (0.5m) -> unknown_processor -> AudioMagic:SpellCasters (0.5m) -> MusicalFidelity:X-10D -> AudioMagic:Sorcerers (0.5m) -> Krell:KAV-500 -> AudioMagic:Excaliber2s (3.0m) -> Magnepans. FWIW, I haven't figured out what to use on the Pioneer:CLD-99 (used).I've been auditioning several ICs from the Cable Co noticed with multiple system assesments that the above split cable configuration eliminates the cables "sound" much as AudioQuest:Diamond do, but w/o the stranded "sound". Of course one does sacrifice a minor amount of Sorcerer's integrity, but the X-10D does keep it to a minimum.
You are an audiophile and I am a philistine! ;-))
I am amazed at your setup and efforts. I too have been scarfing up LDs but I am setting up a reallllly simple system: Classe pre\pro that takes the digital output from CD transport and uses it's own high quality DACs to produce analog stereo without any processing. Then for DD5.1 the Classe uses the whole system (Maggies all around and REL). Boring maybe but it should sound pretty good for both music and theater. Obviously the front speakers will not be optimized for theater but for music.
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