I am a car guy as well as an audiophile. In the automobile world, there are dozens of modding sites and vendors galore for nearly every brand, old or new.
Take a really fun car to drive - a VW Golf. From that base, from the factory, you can step up I to a GTI, or all the way to the Type R. I can tell you from personal experience that for about $300, I can significantly improve the handling performance. For $1,000, the handling and get you 20% more power, and for $3,000 even better handing, braking, and power. That's part of the fun - planning your upgrades. I also know how to do that with Maggie's. For 3-5% of the cost I can rebuild the crossovers, and as we go up I can improve the frames, use more transparent grill cloth. The genius in both cases is a affordable platform with enough innate goodness to make it worthwhile, and for that, Magnepan should be thanked, not demonized.
Take a really fun car to drive - a VW Golf. From that base, from the factory, you can step up I to a GTI, or all the way to the Type R. I can tell you from personal experience that for about $300, I can significantly improve the handling performance. For $1,000, the handling and get you 20% more power, and for $3,000 even better handing, braking, and power. That's part of the fun - planning your upgrades. I also know how to do that with Maggie's. For 3-5% of the cost I can rebuild the crossovers, and as we go up I can improve the frames, use more transparent grill cloth. The genius in both cases is a affordable platform with enough innate goodness to make it worthwhile, and for that, Magnepan should be thanked, not demonized.