Enormus 21 Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Hello Everyone , New member from Central Fl here . I'm just getting into making a decent home audio system , as our kids are all grown up and on thier own ( well , as on thier own as children get So far i have a pair of Magnepan MGII C's that a friend helped me modify with a pair of NEO8's from Parts Express. The tweeter section of the maggies was defunked . Still have to add the notch filter on the Neo's to tone them down some . I picked up an SD/A390T cd player and C-20v pre amp for 25 bucks each . Neither of them are operable at the moment but i have hope .Physically they both look great Also have a CT-24 that works fine and a pair of Emotiva UPA-1 mono amps . ( heck of a holiday sale they had ) Very glad to have found you guys Bill
SteveFord 1,125 Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Exactly what did you do to your Maggies? I'm waiting for a new ribbon for one of my 3.6s - I think that having a subwoofer to close behind it may have led to it's early demise.
zumbini 6,147 Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Howdy Bill and welcome to the forum. You came to the right place for all things Carver. Post some pics of your (new) toys when you get a chance.
Enormus 21 Posted January 9, 2011 Author Posted January 9, 2011 Hi Steve , I got them really cheap ,and wasn't worried about hurting them so much . So we cut a hole next to the woofer section of the speaker and installed the neo8's at ear level . We have some other mods we are going to try on them aswell I will post some pictures in the coming weeks . Bill
Rob41 23 Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Welcome to the forum Enormus. I think you'll find a lot of really knowledgeable and friendly folks here.
jazzman53 1,276 Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Welcome Bill, Central FL is a great place (I grew up in Tampa). It's good to have a fellow planar guy aboard! Charlie
BluesMan57 1,411 Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Welcome to the forum Bill. Glad to have another Central Fla. member. And yes please post some pictures of your progress on your Maggie mod, when you can.
oldtexasdog 2,456 Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Welcome Bill. I am a purposley bred and born Texan, in Texas, but Graduated Rollins back in the 60s.
jldeni 439 Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Welcome to the forum, Bill. Glad you're here.
peck555 366 Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Wow, great deal on the 390t, have fun with it when you get it running, and welcome to the site.
emmjlm 5 Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Welcome, Bill. I used to live in Lakeland. There's a great group here!
Guest Home Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 Hello and welcome, I am also a newbie from central Fl. but an old audio nut. I have a pair of Amaizings driven by a pair of 80w bridged mono Golden Tube Audio Amps and they sound ...well amaizing. They are fed by a Dayton Wright SPA MKII pre that has out preformed my Luxman's, Conrad Johnsons , and a slew of others. I am happy with everything about the system with the exception of a little smaller sound stage than I have had from other, more efficient, speakers. Will a ECS-U add anything or am I just puting something into my perfectly black simple signal backgrounds anyone? I also play bass and use a Carver pm 1.5 with a unheard of pre made in canada like the DW I tell ya the Canadians make great pre's and hockey players. Well I'll get some pics on here soon of the systems. Thanks everyone for being here
SteveFord 1,125 Posted January 9, 2011 Posted January 9, 2011 I'll second the Canadians making really good preamps. It must be the long Winters or something.
BillD 239 Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 You might try a Carver C-9 hologram generator to widen your soundstage. Speaker placement is important to get a big soundstage, with or without Sonic Holography.
Blues Pwr 766 Posted January 10, 2011 Posted January 10, 2011 Welcome to the forum Bill and M@, always glad to have some more central Fl. members on the forum, lots to read and lots of mods for your equipment can be found here on the site, hope you guys stick around and join in the fun..........
RobertG 16 Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Welcome Bill, glad your with us. This is a great place to be if you love high end audio, especially Carver!
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