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ksimple: those bridges are the tweeter atunuator...something like that. I can place resistors and/or other wires/metals/aluminum/hell anything that conducts and play around with the tweeter sound of the Maggies. Its altually neat. I have placed a resistors(rooled off the highs), aluminum (sounded tinny, airy) and currently I have pure silver wire which sounded the best.
Why the 53Tx ... well the local store I get my stuff from had it in stock...it had the power I needed..the inputs...the auto calibration...and he took in the trade in PMC speakers I had. Really there was no scientific/listening method I went with. The 55txi has more juice and a iLink thing which is currently not too usefull unless you get a another Pioneer product. Sound wise I doubt there is a difference. Get what you can afford and enjoy the unit. I am firm believer of auto calibration only because the Axioms I have (or most speakers) are really far off tonally in caparison to the Maggies.

oldskoolboarder: thanks. I plan to get maybe 2 butterfly chairs to match the other stuff. The barcelona does take a lot of realstate.

snippy:I still have it...in the box..I cant seem to place it in the middle of that small floor space without making it look like a mess. I might have to sell it. I am currently running a phantom center.

Saturn,

Wow, that is fascinating. Can you do that with any speaker?

Any bi-wirable speaker.

Like the M80s, etc... you could potentially try all sorts of things to replace the bridge - wires with different capacitance/inductance values, different metals, a tube full of tuna salad...

Bren R.

Bren:

I tried the same thing with standard bi-wirable speakers and did not get the same effect.

Might it be the circuit is different for Maggies or are the aluminum ribbons more sensitive to change...i dunno....

Hmm.. that's strange - Maggies aren't the most sensitive speakers (84, 86, 83.5 dB/2.83V/m depending on the measurement). Either way, I wouldn't suggest messing with the engineer's design for most speakers unless you're trying to correct something you feel is an issue (like the Axiom resistor pack to dull the highs) but some people need to feel more connected to "designing" their own sound - I'm guilty of it too - Yamaha gave me an option to EQ my centre, so of course, I did. Brought myself back to reality with STYKS - Stop Twiddling Your Knobs, Shi... well, you get the rest.

Bren R.

Wow a new acronym...
I think those measurements are that low due to driving currents through those mylar sheets (bass driver). The quasi alu-ribbons (tweeter driver) ... at least with other ribbon type speakers tend to be very efficient. And then again I could be talking out of my a$$.

I'm not sure how they're measured, Saturn... I've not that familiar with planar/ribbon speakers - they've always seemed to be on the periphery for me. No offense - I've been hanging and powering horns and cones for 15 years, so there's a comfort level with what I know.

Bren R.