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    Quote Originally Posted by markw
    It'll work but I think it's a bit of overkill for the MMG's. IIRC, they tend to get a bit "congested" at higher volume levels. That amp would be great for 1.6's, though.
    This is right on. The MMGs just don't have the radiating area to produce dynamic bass -- and it doesn't matter the power you supply. I drove my MMGs with 360 wpc and it didn't help much, i.e. the speakers played loud but sounded compressed.

    The solution with MMGs isn't more amp power, it's using a sub to carry all the sound above a fairly high crossover point, say 80 Hz. Note that you need both a low-pass filter to feed the sub, and a high-pass filter feeding the MMGs to exclude the bass.

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    The local Magnepan distributor here has very kindly agreed to let me connect my ICE power amp and Benchmark DAC to a pair of 1.6 speakers in their showroom to get a sense of how the MMGs might sound. I'm intending to do that sometime this week. Since the MMGs are only sold over the Internet, they don't carry them. The MMGs seem to have characteristics similar to my Dynaudios - 4 ohms impedance and 87 dB sensitivity.

    Will provide some feedback on how the tests go. Thanks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by krishna
    The MMGs seem to have characteristics similar to my Dynaudios - 4 ohms impedance and 87 dB sensitivity.
    The same can be said about the 1.6's, or the new 1.7's would assume..

    Having owned both, I can say,the 1.x's are, without a doubt, worth the price difference ...if you have the room to position them properly.

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