Magnepans in a small room

Dipoles are in my experience quite forgiving of small rooms and/or wierd room acoustics. I have a customer who used 3 foot wide by nearly 7 foot tall electrostats in a 12 by 12 foot room and was quite happy with them.

You might try setting up your Maggies diagonally, with your listening position close to a corner. That sometimes works well in a small, squarish room.

In my experience dipole speakers are sort of like pianos. A grand piano will sound best in a large recital hall or a concert hall, while a small upright is intended more for a smaller room like a living room. But the grand piano will still sound magnificent in a living room and will outclass the upright piano even if it theoretically isn't able to reach its full potential due to the room size.

Duke

that would work just fine IMO, the 1.6 would fill it well.

You might get away with 12s in that room. But 1.6s would probably be a bit too much.

Oz

i listened to both the 12's and 1.6's in 13 x 16 room with an mf a3 int. amp. and thought the 12's did a much better job of displaying the details of the music (i listen to everything but rap and opera) given the space constraints over the 1.6's

I just recently sold a pair of 1.6QR's because we moved and the new listening room was only 13 X 16. (The old room was 15 X 25.) Actually the speakers sounded OK in the smaller room but the big problem was placement. Magnepans must be placed away from the rear and side walls. The room served other purposes so it simply didn't work to have them sitting where they needed to be placed to sound their best. If the room would have been solely dedicated to audio I'd probably have kept them.