hotboi,
"A little learning is a dangerous thing ;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,And drinking largely sobers us again." Alexander Pope.
I think you are in the position where you have done some reading, but have not yet read enough to get the full picture. The receiver you have is rated at 110w/ch into 8 ohms, it is not rated for speakers below 6 ohms (turn it around, it says so right on the back). This is because it lacks the ability to provide the necessary current into lower impedance loads. In this case it lacks the ability to drive your current Mirage speakers properly as will for Magnepans.
Just as building a house, unless you have a good foundation, the final product will not be good. Here, Maggies, or any decent speaker, will reveal the weaknesses in your front end. You are using a computer, but don’t mention a dac, so presumably you are using the analog output from the built in dac on board, virtually always a very poor sounding dac. You are then going to a receiver which lacks the ability to drive your current speakers properly, nor will it drive Maggies properly. Without fixing this, you will merely be trading from one speaker to another without fixing the underlying issue and will not be happy with any speaker you purchase.
You don’t have to spend a lot to fix this issue. With Emotiva, you can purchase their Pre-amp DAC (PT-100) for $299 and their A300 Amp for $399. For $700 plus cables to connect it all (check out "Worlds Best Cables" on Amazon or Blue Jeans Cables for good quality inexpensive cables) you will now have a front end that will adequately drive your current, as well as any new speakers (not I say adequate, typically large Maggies benefit from gobs of power, many like 500w/ch into 4 ohms or more). This is not the end all, be all front end, but a quantum improvement over what you have and 80-90% of what spending $5,000 would get you.
Until you are willing to spend some money on the foundation, it won’t matter whether you buy the $699 MMGi or $6,000 3.7i, neither will work properly.
I believe if you to were ask here which people would choose, a pair of 3.7i with your receiver, or the MMGi with the inexpensive Emotiva, virtually all would choose the MMGi. You may want to consider what many are telling you and the experience they bring to the table.
Finally, don't let yourself get too sidetracked by measurements. Objective measurements can tell us a lot, but not nearly everything. Some measurements correlate strongly with how a component sounds, others not at all, and there sound attributes we just don't know how to measure. In the 70s-80s, the industry got sidetracked into making components and speakers with the lowest possible distortion and the result was a lot of poor sounding equipment. In the 90s, Velodyne made a set of speakers that had the lowest distortion measured and were extremely "accurate". They sounded like garbage and nobody bought them.
"A little learning is a dangerous thing ;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,And drinking largely sobers us again." Alexander Pope.
I think you are in the position where you have done some reading, but have not yet read enough to get the full picture. The receiver you have is rated at 110w/ch into 8 ohms, it is not rated for speakers below 6 ohms (turn it around, it says so right on the back). This is because it lacks the ability to provide the necessary current into lower impedance loads. In this case it lacks the ability to drive your current Mirage speakers properly as will for Magnepans.
Just as building a house, unless you have a good foundation, the final product will not be good. Here, Maggies, or any decent speaker, will reveal the weaknesses in your front end. You are using a computer, but don’t mention a dac, so presumably you are using the analog output from the built in dac on board, virtually always a very poor sounding dac. You are then going to a receiver which lacks the ability to drive your current speakers properly, nor will it drive Maggies properly. Without fixing this, you will merely be trading from one speaker to another without fixing the underlying issue and will not be happy with any speaker you purchase.
You don’t have to spend a lot to fix this issue. With Emotiva, you can purchase their Pre-amp DAC (PT-100) for $299 and their A300 Amp for $399. For $700 plus cables to connect it all (check out "Worlds Best Cables" on Amazon or Blue Jeans Cables for good quality inexpensive cables) you will now have a front end that will adequately drive your current, as well as any new speakers (not I say adequate, typically large Maggies benefit from gobs of power, many like 500w/ch into 4 ohms or more). This is not the end all, be all front end, but a quantum improvement over what you have and 80-90% of what spending $5,000 would get you.
Until you are willing to spend some money on the foundation, it won’t matter whether you buy the $699 MMGi or $6,000 3.7i, neither will work properly.
I believe if you to were ask here which people would choose, a pair of 3.7i with your receiver, or the MMGi with the inexpensive Emotiva, virtually all would choose the MMGi. You may want to consider what many are telling you and the experience they bring to the table.
Finally, don't let yourself get too sidetracked by measurements. Objective measurements can tell us a lot, but not nearly everything. Some measurements correlate strongly with how a component sounds, others not at all, and there sound attributes we just don't know how to measure. In the 70s-80s, the industry got sidetracked into making components and speakers with the lowest possible distortion and the result was a lot of poor sounding equipment. In the 90s, Velodyne made a set of speakers that had the lowest distortion measured and were extremely "accurate". They sounded like garbage and nobody bought them.