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Magnepan 1.7 too bright, HELP

I just bought a used 6 month old Magnepan 1.7 and hooked them to my old system, which consists on a Deonon 2900 Universal player, Emotiva USP Preamp and Rotel 1080 power amp and use anticables for speaker connections, and monster cables for interconnects. The sound is too bright for me, I used the provide 1 ohm resisters, still too bright, any recommendations. Bnrimal  (Threads | Answers | This Thread) 05-21-11

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Click title to read one, or click date to read all below it. 05-21-11   You could try to dampen the wall behind the speakers and the ...   Mofimadness 05-21-11   Sorry, i also might add to try some different interconnect c ...   Mofimadness 05-21-11   I would definitely look to replace the anticables. i have fo ...   Tkmetz 05-22-11   I agree with tkmetz the anti cables and rotel may be the cul ...   Philjolet 05-22-11   I use anticables with my 1.6qrs. they are not bright at all ...   Brownsfan 05-22-11   I have never liked rotel amps with magnepans, and in genera ...   Jl35 05-22-11   I am not surprised you find the combination of gear currentl ...   Douglas_schroeder 05-22-11   Room,room and room...forget the cables and concentrate on th ...   Schipo 05-22-11   How many hours on the 1.7's although used they may not be br ...   Erikminer 05-22-11   If your tweeters are on the outside swap the speakers from l ...   Rrog 05-22-11   Of course all cables may sound different on different system ...   Stringreen 05-22-11   Here are all of the options 1- new power cables - try shun ...   Peleton 05-22-11   Yes, change out the anticables--they are nothing but glorifi ...   Jafreeman 05-22-11   First and foremost, make certain your speakers are set up pr ...   Markalarsen 05-22-11   Wow, i don't agree with any of these suggestions, and that's ...   Macdadtexas 05-22-11   I took me two years to get my 1.6 set up . first i hung floo ...   Maplegrovemusic 05-22-11   All panels sound bright to me .   Tmsorosk 05-22-11   I absolutely second macdadtexas's opinion   Hasmarto 05-22-11   I would look at your source first,then i would dump the emot ...   Hocheye 05-22-11   Thanks for all the interesting suggestions, i guess i have a ...   Bnrimal 05-22-11   I understand every system is different. in my case, i don't ...   Gte357s 05-22-11   Jafreeman...clearly you don't know what you're talking about ...   Stringreen 05-22-11   I'm partial to cary tube pre-amps, but i think the prima lun ...   Macdadtexas 05-22-11   Well you sort of opened a pandora's box when you asked this ...   Djcxxx 05-22-11   Djcxxxis giving good advice. usually the advice is to throw ...   Elizabeth 05-23-11   I agree with djcxxx. for example, if the bass is not right, ...   Markalarsen 05-23-11   Use 1.5 ohm resistors.   Rockguitardude 05-23-11   If you read all of the string, and know maggies, the problem ...   Macdadtexas 05-23-11   There is a lot of good advice and good ideas here. the take ...   Brownsfan 05-23-11   Your problem is simple,you have ferrari speakers running on ...   Markwatkiss 05-23-11   Nobody has suggested the cure which worked for me. my 1.6s ...   Magfan 05-23-11   My thoughts: 1. use the spacers on the stand screws to til ...   Stickman451 05-23-11   Additional thoughts: tweaking your room surroundings is goo ...   Stickman451 05-24-11   The 'not enough power' carp is, imo, a red herring. that is, ...   Magfan 05-24-11   Lots of interesting points. my room is 22ft by 32ft and 12 ...   Bnrimal 05-24-11   I think if you had mentioned the room size in your original ...   Philjolet 05-24-11   Get cheap power cords/an ac filter from rat shack, and you w ...   Rodman99999 05-24-11   Having owned emo gear i would say replace the pre amp first ...   Bighead63 05-24-11   You should be 7.4 feet from your back wall. just try it. w ...   Markalarsen 05-25-11   A good tube pre under $500 maybe a bit hard to find. two bu ...   Gte357s 05-25-11   My maggie 1.7's are in a room with 9 foot ceilings, 35 feet ...   Dsper 05-26-11: Gte357s There is a mapletree 2 se selling in audiocircle. U may be interested. http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=93617.0 Gte357s  (Threads | Answers | This Thread) 05-26-11   For the record i too own a 'd' ice amp.... be careful with ...   Magfan 05-27-11   Rockguitardude has it right try the 1.5 ohm or evan higher ...   Audioconnection 05-27-11   Fyi, i lived with maggies for many many years. about a dozen ...   Frogman 05-28-11   Great question! what were the last set of speakers!? i had ...   Magfan 05-28-11   Great advice here. i offer a small addition. i had a similar ...   Manoterror 05-28-11   Magfan, my mgiiia's were "modded to their limit" w ...   Frogman 05-29-11   Good mods. i'd do it a little different...not necessarily b ...   Magfan 05-30-11   I would change the denon first and spend as much as you can ...   Hocheye

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