Mike Anderson
02-04-2006, 03:30 PM
Well, the 1.6's FINALLY arrived!! I'm breaking em in now. They have plenty of resolution and bass, but they *definitely* need to be broken in. The bass is relatively soft and flubby, and the high freqs are somewhat grainy. I expect both to tighten up over time.
So at this point, I think I'm very nearly done with gear-buying (knock on wood). Here's my rig so far:
Music stored in FLAC lossless format on 500GB LaCie hard drive ->
Squeezebox 2, digital out ->
Benchmark DAC1, balanced outputs ->
Pathos Logos integrated amp ->
Speltz anti-cables, bi-wired ->
Magnepan 1.6's.
I'm also running a digital signal out of my DVD player at 24bit/96khz into the Benchmark DAC1 for the handful of DVD's I have that work with that.
Mye stands are on the way; I'm mounting them on wheels so that I can move the speakers back towards the walls when we have parties and such.
That's it! Very elegant and simple, in my estimation. :cool: I *may* add eq for room issues, depending on how well room treatment works.
Which is where I am now: Once the speakers are broken in and I've got the speaker placement down, I want to deal with the room itself. As you can see from the shot below, I've got glass French doors behind the speakers (presently covered by Auralex 4" foam), another set of French doors behind and to the right of the speakers, and there's also a large window (about 4'x5') on the left wall.
Right now, the sound is a little on the bright side. In certain pieces of music (e.g. a soprano, or a trumpet) the hi end is a little too piercing. 95% of the time it's fine, just on certain passages it isn't.
So I'd like to soften up the room a little, and maybe deal with any humps/dips in the low end.
Advice? Critiques? Etc?
http://static.flickr.com/25/95506015_927d70d283_o.jpg
BTW, thanks to everyone who advised me in putting this together: Florian, Bernd (who send me some lovely vintage tubes for the Logos!), Woochifer and everybody else! You folks have all been amazingly helpful!! :) :)
So at this point, I think I'm very nearly done with gear-buying (knock on wood). Here's my rig so far:
Music stored in FLAC lossless format on 500GB LaCie hard drive ->
Squeezebox 2, digital out ->
Benchmark DAC1, balanced outputs ->
Pathos Logos integrated amp ->
Speltz anti-cables, bi-wired ->
Magnepan 1.6's.
I'm also running a digital signal out of my DVD player at 24bit/96khz into the Benchmark DAC1 for the handful of DVD's I have that work with that.
Mye stands are on the way; I'm mounting them on wheels so that I can move the speakers back towards the walls when we have parties and such.
That's it! Very elegant and simple, in my estimation. :cool: I *may* add eq for room issues, depending on how well room treatment works.
Which is where I am now: Once the speakers are broken in and I've got the speaker placement down, I want to deal with the room itself. As you can see from the shot below, I've got glass French doors behind the speakers (presently covered by Auralex 4" foam), another set of French doors behind and to the right of the speakers, and there's also a large window (about 4'x5') on the left wall.
Right now, the sound is a little on the bright side. In certain pieces of music (e.g. a soprano, or a trumpet) the hi end is a little too piercing. 95% of the time it's fine, just on certain passages it isn't.
So I'd like to soften up the room a little, and maybe deal with any humps/dips in the low end.
Advice? Critiques? Etc?
http://static.flickr.com/25/95506015_927d70d283_o.jpg
BTW, thanks to everyone who advised me in putting this together: Florian, Bernd (who send me some lovely vintage tubes for the Logos!), Woochifer and everybody else! You folks have all been amazingly helpful!! :) :)