Quads or Maggies?

The Magnepan 3.6 is a magnificent speaker, which honours the music. It has plenty of dynamics, excellent highs and a fairly good and punchy bass. It also can play fairly loud.
The midrange of the Quad 988 however, is still unsurpassed in transparency, immediacy and coherence. Also in the rest of the parameters mentioned above, it is no slouch. The Magnepan may be easier and less finicky to drive, the Quad however, mated with the right tube gear for example, can come uncannily close to the real thing with chamber music, voices and Jazz ensembles. That's what my ears tell me, regarding your question. Cheers and happy listening,

Well spoken Audiokinesis! My ears found the 988 voiced differently to the 63. I think, the emphasis you rightly mention, has been evened out, at least, it seemed to be in direct comparison. To me the 988 seemed just a tiny tad darker. By the way, I got rid of that irking "hotspot", with placement, damping reflection points and XLO wires and I use the 63 stacked, so there is no image collapse at all and everything is coherent all the same.