Magnepan 1.7 too bright, HELP

Wow, I don't agree with any of these suggestions, and that's odd on A'gon. Your amp is bright, and not powerful enough to drive the panels. I suggest you try and find a used innersound ESL or a Wyred 4 sound 500. Also when i have heard the Emotiva gear it has sounded VERY bright.

I'm partial to Cary tube pre-amps, but I think the Prima Luna's are among the best deals in all of audio. Great, warm sound, at a reasonable price.

Also, older ARC and Mac gear that is less expensive sounds stellar as well. I like maggie with a tubed pre, and powerful amp. Mellows out the sound with the tubes and gives you great bass with the powerful amps.

If you read all of the string, and know Maggies, the problem starts with the amp. Positioning et al is not going to change the fact that there's not enough juice to run the panels, and the other gear tends to brightness anyway.

Just wasting time.

Good call, as the W4S breaks in, you will get more bass. Not booming bass, but down to the 42 hrz range, that Magnepan advertises. I love the Bass on Maggies, especially the bigger models, it's very tight and fast.

The amps I currently use with mine have incredible bass, and the speakers have measured consistantly down to 32 hrz in this imperfect room. The kick drum always sounds great, in fact I can listen to Outlandas D'Amour over and over again, just to listen to Stewart Copelands drum work, especially on the kick drum, and the high hats on the other end.

Spinning that record right now!!

Oui, Mssr.

David, I wholeheartedly agree about upstream, but I would never suggest wasting money on super expensive cables, especially power cables.

Once you gotten past the stock cable, with say a Signal Cable power cable, I think the changes are between the ears, not at the ear drums.

Interconnects definitely affect sound, but once again I would suggest putting that money towards better upstream gear and staying with moderate (once again Signal Cable, Blue Jean Cable, Kimber Kable Hero's, etc) interconnects.

Better, more effective use of captial dollars.

Djcxxx, classicly well spoken.