Musical Fidelity MC6 speakers

[macvisual]

Anyone know anything about Musical Fidelity MC6 loudspeakers...? I know of a pair for sale going for a decent price, worth a punt I wonder ?

Any experience/thoughts/views appreciated.

Thanks;
Peter

[struth]

I heard a pair once many years ago. Looked interesting with drivers everywhere lol. quite big and efficient and sounded ok, without being great. Think they were fairly expencive in the day, but are probably worth £150 tops now.

[Lawrence001]

I had a pair of the earlier MC2 and MC4 speakers with the Elac metal dome tweeters the MC4s with the A100 amp was one of my favourite systems of all time and I sometimes feel the urge to try it again.

The MC6 is contemporary with the 3 way mark 2 MC4s which I have heard were terrible but I read that the MC6 was not so bad and should be worth a go at the right price.


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[Arkless Electronics]

I used to use several pairs of them when I worked for MF, for testing amps and as a background music system for the factory. I concur with Grant on them.... Nowt special.

[Lawrence001]

If it's the pair at Audio Emotion for £95 I would take a punt if I was local.


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[barbieboy]

Does anyone have any for sale ? Audio Emotion have sold theirs

[barbieboy]

I used to use several pairs of them when I worked for MF, for testing amps and as a background music system for the factory. I concur with Grant on them.... Nowt special.

Hi Jez, how tricky would it be to turn an early single posts pair into a bi-wirable pair for bi-amping ? The Highs went through and extra cap on the + (see pic) but I don't know what the - did as under the xover in this old pic I've managed to find. Hope you can shed some light !

[Pharos]

MC = Martin Colloms.

[barbieboy]

MC = Martin Colloms.

Oh really ? Thanks ! I knew he did some of the early offerings but never twigged the Prefix ! Not sure he had anything to do with the MC6s though

[walpurgis]

I recall writing to MC asking questions about speaker design over thirty years ago in one of the monthly publications. About phase relationships between drivers I believe it was and I think it may have been in HFP. I got a published reply anyway. :)

Had a few letters and articles published actually.

[Pharos]

You or he?

[Minstrel SE]

Having heard and sold the MC2s, I would tend to agree with everyone that gives a nowt special alert.

[barbieboy]

I like the MC6s which suit my kind of music I listen to, just need make my pair bi-wireable, but I don't know how..

[walpurgis]

I like the MC6s which suit my kind of music I listen to, just need make my pair bi-wireable, but I don't know how..

Assuming they are two way. You could try an active crossover between the pre-amp and power amps and do away with the internal crossover in the speakers, just leaving a single series capacitor in line with the tweeter as protection against LF intrusion.

[barbieboy]

Assuming they are two way. You could try an active crossover between the pre-amp and power amps and do away with the internal crossover in the speakers, just leaving a single series capacitor in line with the tweeter as protection against LF intrusion.

Yes 2 way, but I use my AVR as a DAC - AMP which the front channels can be biamped. Breaking my heart having these channels going unused !

[Arkless Electronics]

Hi Jez, how tricky would it be to turn an early single posts pair into a bi-wirable pair for bi-amping ? The Highs went through and extra cap on the + (see pic) but I don't know what the - did as under the xover in this old pic I've managed to find. Hope you can shed some light !

Not difficult if you know what you're doing... probably quite difficult if you have to ask how to do it! A waste of time all round though.

[Arkless Electronics]

Assuming they are two way. You could try an active crossover between the pre-amp and power amps and do away with the internal crossover in the speakers, just leaving a single series capacitor in line with the tweeter as protection against LF intrusion.

Indeed yes. It could probably be done for as little as £4000 and 2 months work as well!

[walpurgis]

Indeed yes. It could probably be done for as little as £4000 and 2 months work as well!

Or eighty quid from ebay. Plenty of active crossovers there.

[barbieboy]

Surely it can't be that tricky to separate the tweeters ? But putting my ears up to the cones these speakers are a 3 way design

[Arkless Electronics]

Or eighty quid from ebay. Plenty of active crossovers there.

And it will sound utter shite! Any crossover must be designed specifically for the speaker it is being used in, therefore each one is a separate design exercise with all the experimenting, measuring and listening involved. Hence the £4K (if you are paying an engineer to do it for you) and 2 months work... to do the job properly.

[Arkless Electronics]

Surely it can't be that tricky to separate the tweeters ? But putting my ears up to the cones these speakers are a 3 way design

Anything's easy if you know what you're doing... If you know how to trace through the crossover, reverse engineer it and analyse the design so you can recognise and separate the bass, mid and treble sections and their grounding regime then it's easy to do the job yes. Whether or not it's worth doing and would give any worthwhile benefit is another matter of course...

[barbieboy]

I went down the separate crossover route once before and was a pain in the ass to get right, don't think I ever did and flogged the lot