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    Hi,

     

    Magnepan MMG and MG 1.6QR have been my only speakers since 2000. You either like them or you don't. After 10 years you can assume that I do. Most of what have been said in the previous post is correct. They are not the easiest loudspeakers to live with. Forget about impressing your friends and the WAF is not good. All MG have the same sound signature. You just get more as you get the bigger ones.

     

    That said, they do give a lot of music. You may feel that they are difficult to setup but it is mostly an illusion. Any loudspeaker needs to be setup correctly to sound optimal. I used them initially with tubes amps and the sounded great but they taxing the tubes and I got tired of replacing them every 6-7 months so I moved to solid state. The source and the preamp are at least as important if not more.

     

    Feel free to email me if you wish.

     

    Jacques

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    Yes the apple TV can both be streamed or stored inside it's internal HDD and played without a mac. An iPhone can works as a wireless remote through wifi, it won't sync with your iPhone library.

     

    An iPod Touch can also be a remote. Both will do fine.

     

     

     

    Arrghh.. you are poisoning my mind...

    Now I'm getting interested. Can I confirmed that your music library is in your iMac and the music is stream wifi to the apple tv device which has optical audio out to your amp?

     

    Can the music library be stored into apple tv itself and play direct from apple tv without the iMac?

     

    If music are stored in the apple tv, does it sync with the iMac (or PC in my case) as well as sync with iPhone?

     

    Apple TV is quite an expensive investment, airport express is more affordable for me.

     

    Surfing some of the site also makes me worried about the "fate" for apple tv product line. Not sure is Apple interested venturing deeper into this product line. Could apple tv be on it end of life cycle soon?

     

    Isn't it a fun hobby (but sometimes expensive)? Yes the music can be streamed from an iMac or any authorized computers running iTunes. It also can come from the local HD in the Apple TV.

     

    Is it at the end of it's life cycle? Who knows.

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    Can anyone share your experience using Apple Airport Express to stream music from MAC/PC to home stereo?

     

    Thanks.

     

    Hi,

     

    I had one before. There is a review on the Stereophile site.

     

    http://stereophile.com/digitalprocessors/505apple/

     

    I can confirm what was said. The analog output is not bad but you will ned a DAC to get the most out of it. Depending on the DAC, you may miss the first seconds of a song as with my MF Trivista DAC-21. At the end of the day, I had fun with it. But since I use CD's instead of downloads, there was little benefits to keep it.

     

    The Apple TV is something you may want to consider also.

     

    Jacques

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