I have owned 3 different sets of Maggies over the years.
Currently, I have a pair of MGIII. I bought them from a seller who had them in storage for a couple of decades, for $300.
I had to do some work to them, i.e. relaminate the coils in a few places, buy new socks and recover them, build new bases. On top of that, I upgraded all the caps in the crossovers (Magnepan was notorious for using mediocre parts in their crossovers) and built my own stands for them (similar to Mye stands).
As for the stands, Maggies are fairly unsupported, so they tend to move forward and backward with audio output, causing a slight amount of blurring, that is not really noticeable, UNTIL you hear a pair with stands. Putting stands on them, makes them clearer, better imaging, tighter midbass, and some other improvements.
The things I like about them: very coherent, great detail and transient response, big soundstage (width and depth), great midbass.
Things I don’t like about them: compress dynamics a bit, images are a bit larger than life (better with newest Maggies), images are not as specified as dynamic speakers.
Even though I like them a lot, I am in the process of selling them to move to dynamic speakers*.
*Yes Kenjit, even though I enjoy the hell out of my Maggies, I am still going to get something else. What a concept.
Currently, I have a pair of MGIII. I bought them from a seller who had them in storage for a couple of decades, for $300.
I had to do some work to them, i.e. relaminate the coils in a few places, buy new socks and recover them, build new bases. On top of that, I upgraded all the caps in the crossovers (Magnepan was notorious for using mediocre parts in their crossovers) and built my own stands for them (similar to Mye stands).
As for the stands, Maggies are fairly unsupported, so they tend to move forward and backward with audio output, causing a slight amount of blurring, that is not really noticeable, UNTIL you hear a pair with stands. Putting stands on them, makes them clearer, better imaging, tighter midbass, and some other improvements.
The things I like about them: very coherent, great detail and transient response, big soundstage (width and depth), great midbass.
Things I don’t like about them: compress dynamics a bit, images are a bit larger than life (better with newest Maggies), images are not as specified as dynamic speakers.
Even though I like them a lot, I am in the process of selling them to move to dynamic speakers*.
*Yes Kenjit, even though I enjoy the hell out of my Maggies, I am still going to get something else. What a concept.