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F.O.A.D.

On 1/13/14, 2:57 PM, wrote:
On Monday, January 13, 2014 2:30:43 PM UTC-5, F.O.A.D. wrote:

I've a pair of Magnepan electrostatic speakers that were given to me by
a friend breaking up his household after a nasty divorce. They're
hooked up with a pretty decent subwoofer. The array suits me.

Magnepans can sound very good, but they require massive amounts of power (current) from an amplifier that can drive a low impedance, and they do require a subwoofer.

I have a friend with a pair of them, driven in a bi-amp configuration with over $6k worth of hi-end amps, plus pre-amps, etc. Great sound, but costly.

Oh, and technically, Magnepans aren't electrostatics. They are dipole magna-planars.

Dipole magnaplaners? Holy toledo! I of course have not a clue what that
means.

My "magies" are driven by a pretty high powered McIntosh amp running
through a preamp. I got the McIntosh at a pawn shop in Virginia. It was
practically a give-away, since it had been sitting in the pawnbroker's
store for months, and about every two months, I'd stop by and make him a
ridiculous offer for it. I've got what I think is called a "passive"
subwoofer that strips the lows off the lines running to the magies.