The mini maggies are so hard to use and figure out for a noob and casual like me that I have a love hate relationship with it. I have no idea what I am doing with it and what all those resisters and everything else do and if I am doing it right ... Also the binding posts uses and the whole system as a whole is not made for the simple man in mind.
Love the sound though. But now it is giving me mega headaches to get the best amp with a at least 100hz high pass filter.
Magnepan is very old school. Pick up the phone and you will actually get a quick answer. Their website is pretty horrible but they have done a good job of staying profitable and not expanding too fast. Look at Audio Research.
What is tricky about the bass panel is that it can run in single or dual voice coil to address a single planar “driver”.
The resistors help you attenuate the tweeters or bass panels. That said, moving the bass panel closer to the wall or further away can have similar effect as well as trying tweeters in or tweeters out.
A REW sweep will help you identify if you need to attenuate anything with the resistors but in general, running them the jumpers and tweaking positioning is fine.
