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AR MGC-2 Speakers

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Wpbalex

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I just bought two pairs of This speakers, I’ve done a ton of research but not much information about them, I’m trying to take the grille sock off to see the drivers I know the surrounds are bad
The problem I’m having is that I don’t know if sock is supposed to come off from the bottom to the top or from the top to the bottom, I took the top of the speakers off and removed one side of the staples but when I tried to pull the sock down the AR emblem is on the way and I’m afraid to break it, does the emblem has to come off?
Another issue is that they come without the cables that connect to the controller, I ordered a GX16 female to female for Amazon to see if it works it should be here Saturday, does anyone knows what type of connection is needed ?
Thanks in advance
https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-Doubl...&qid=1639671223&sprefix=gx16+,aps,121&sr=8-12
 

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Wpbalex said:
My first post here
I just bought two pairs of This speakers, I’ve done a ton of research but not much information about them, I’m trying to take the grille sock off to see the drivers I know the surrounds are bad
The problem I’m having is that I don’t know if sock is supposed to come off from the bottom to the top or from the top to the bottom, I took the top of the speakers off and removed one side of the staples but when I tried to pull the sock down the AR emblem is on the way and I’m afraid to break it, does the emblem has to come off?
Another issue is that they come without the cables that connect to the controller, I ordered a GX16 female to female for Amazon to see if it works it should be here Saturday, does anyone knows what type of connection is needed ?
Thanks in advance
https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-Double-Aviation-Connector-Electrical/dp/B01MS9PQTN/ref=mp_s_a_1_12?crid=PGU0Q2ANNKI5&keywords=gx16+connector+4+pin&qid=1639671223&sprefix=gx16+,aps,121&sr=8-12
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Maybe look here?

https://www.classicspeakerpages.net/library/acoustic_research/mgc-1_mgc-2_the_magic_speak/
 
Thank you, that was one of the site I visited, nothing about the type of cables or removing the grille, I did print it out just in case, thanks
 
I didn't scrutinize things but I was hoping there would be enough info from the schematics to reverse-engineer the cable.

But, based on your pictures, I can't imagine it makes a difference how the sock comes off. It looks like a tube of material that was slipped over the cabinets and then stapled to the top and bottom. Is that original? It looks a little low-rent to me for Infinity.
 
Are you sure the logos are attached to the cabinets? There's a picture of them on the hifiengine.com site and there are no logos on them.
 
Yes there is a logo top left corner, I managed to take the sock off all, I carefully removed the logo and pulled the sock down, all drivers need surround, for now im going to wait for the cables for the controller to get here, thanks
 

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The MGC line was designed by Ken Kantor, who used to comment
here. The 2 apparently has the secret sauce - 12" woofer - missing
in the MGC-1, so it might be the best AR speaker ever produced. It
definitely is the most expensive (at least in the last century).
 
RxDx said:
The MGC line was designed by Ken Kantor, who used to comment
here. The 2 apparently has the secret sauce - 12" woofer - missing
in the MGC-1, so it might be the best AR speaker ever produced. It
definitely is the most expensive (at least in the last century).
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Yes I’ve read most of his posts, he doesn’t talk about the 2 much, I took a gamble and bought a cable that looks like it could work to connect the controller to the speakers, I have to be sure that everything works before I put some money on them, I have 4 speakers, 4 woofers, 12 mids to refoam
 
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Wpbalex said:
Yes there is a logo top left corner, I managed to take the sock off all, I carefully removed the logo and pulled the sock down, all drivers need surround, for now im going to wait for the cables for the controller to get here, thanks
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how did the cables work ? i picked up a pair minus the controller and cables.
 
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