A Newer Magnaplan Speaker question
After some research I have seen a few reviews/discusions that mentioned the possibility of needing to replace the ribbon tweeters on the newer magnaplan speakers, 3.6/r or 20.x, after only a year or two if using heavilly. In a 5.1 system most families I know probably have the thing on for 40 to 50 hour's a week. There is also the ocassional LETS ROCK moments when they will get played fairly loud. Namely when the munchkins are at grandmas. If you really add it all up it easilly comes to 2000+ hours a year. I had an old set of maggie MG3's that lasted almost 20 years but they had no ribbon tweaters in them. The reason I ask is a friend is asking me about them. He really likes the warm open sound mine made but wanted the newer/crisper ribbon tweater's model's, prob the 3.6 or 20.x. I found a few comments scattered on the web about the ribbon tweaters needing replacement fairly often with heavy use. To me this doesn't sound like something the average peron could easilly do themselves or want to pay for every year or two.
Anyone familiar with this issue? I am not sure if maybe some folks just had bad luck or abused the speakers themselves. Maggies are rather sensitive to being bumped into, pets, etc.
Your help is appreciated.
Take care all
But I was never into 'playing doggy'... is it fun?
If your cats are uninterested in your Maggies, Big-G, then maybe your cat thinks your amps [or something] are simply inadequate and unrealistic, and therefore uninteresting. Cats are such cruel crtics..... We used to have cats when we lived in Avon, CT., and when Robert J. started Morning Promusica by playing his "bird recordings", the cats "went hunting". I bet you are just jealous!
And when the sound of a cat or dog came over the FM, our German Sheppard, and later our Dobie, became very interested. I think the "FM dogs" bugged our dogs the most.
DIY Rebuilding of Maggies never gives as satisfying a result as the Real McCoy rebuild by Magnepan.... just thought you'd like to know.