Maggie LRS so ridiculously good

Break-in period is about 50 hours of listening for the LRS. After that the sound is very warm and spacious. 

I wanted to try LRS. But the wait was 19 weeks. These speakers are amazingly popular. I found a pair of MMGs in like new condition for $490. Brought them home and hooked them up to my Dynaco clone VTA ST120 and was nearly in tears they sounded so good. I'm using a B&W subwoofer with them. You don't need lots of power but you do need an amplifier with lots of current. There are a number of youtube's and internet articles about 1000 watts not doing them justice but a high current 50w amplifier making them sing. My room is 24x12x8 and with 60w a channel I can play at a measured 105 db if I wanted to. But as the OP said, listening late night at low volume is also extremely rewarding. Good luck with them. Enjoy.

Manny use Class A to their magnapans. With good results. 
As the manufacturer says the important thing is: 

Class A/B amplifier designs that come close to doubling power at 4 ohms have a long and successful track record.

https://www.magnepan.com/faq#receivers

(And class A is always "on" and delivering)

I bought a pair to primarily have a total different type of speaker that i could switch back and forth between a panel and my box speaker.

It is a dedicated rather big 2ch listing space. With treated with thick absorberas and 2D diffusion behind the speakers all symmetrical. I am using a fairly near field setup there I am ~2m and sometimes closer distance from them (Not so much interaction with the room). Probably why I am happy with 5w class A. ;) I am primarily a sound stage guy.

The box speakers I upgraded with all bells and whistles that we don't even see on higher end speakers (with several thousands of dollars on their price tag).

Got the magnapan home set them up. No tweeks and just played some songs in standard configuration. And we're surprised that they sounded way better than my box speaker at this starting point!

My thoughts goes like this: 
I thought that I had hifi and good sound. But the magnapan showed me that I were wrong and what good sound is really like!..

Today I know that my beloved box speakers will not be used again 🥲 that were I not prepared for at all. And I will never look at a box speakers in the same way as i have done previous.

When it comes to tweeks one that benefits LRS/MMGs is to rise them so that the middle of the driver is at ear level and in center of its directivity (probably more crucial when you are closer to them).
Easy to test just sit up on your knees at sweet spot and listening what happens when you lower yourself by lowering your rear end towards your heels so you sit down and are more in the middle of the driver. 
You should hear a big improvement. Then it is easier to be motivated to rise them when what you will gain is more reviled.

Another tweek from the owner and manufacturer is to make sure that the left and right side of the panel is at equal distance to the listing position. When the tweeter is on one of the sides of the panel. Then it will bring the tweeter and woofer on the same parallel plane towards your sweet spot.
In other words if you have your panels parallel to the wall behind them then the arrival time will be different between the two drivers (again probably more important if you are like me rather close to them).

In conclusion if we do not sit far away with a reflective coffee table between sweet spot and the panels and other compromises in my opinion. Then you will find hifi nirvana with almost no effort even with the smallest panels. And my 5w/Ch shows that it is not about the power as such and it is more about doubling down than anything else.

I’m a long time planar guy. I owned Apogee Duetta II’s since the mid 90’s. One of the woofer panels died last year, so I went on a speaker quest, and wound up with Maggie 1.7i’s.

There was nothing, and I mean nothing that sounded nearly as good at even 3x the price to my ears (except maybe the 3.7i’s).

They do need a lot of hours to start breaking in. They started to open up at around 200 hours. In my room, I took the subwoofer out as I found that I really didn’t need it, and the bass sounded slow and heavy with the traditional sub. I’m considering adding in their bass panels for the 2 channel system.

I have heard the LRS, and they definitely give you an accurate taste of what the larger Maggies can do.

@optimize I could not have stated it better.

Look. I don't have my shop any more, so I have no skin in this at all, but what I learned, given that I could lock the door and LISTEN to every speaker of any quality on the market at the time for as long as I wanted to, was that Jim Winey had discovered something amazing.  No matter WHAT speaker I tried with the best hardware sources--master tapes run down to home r-t-r, Sheffield recordings, even a tape my old band made in the studio, there was NO comparison, period.

OK, I do exaggerate a bit.  Robert Fulton had a speaker--I think the Fulton 100--that was AMAZING for a box.  Not sure what or how he did it--only met him once at the old CES in the 1970's, but told him that as he was entertaining many other dealers at the time.  So yes, there was a good box out there then and I am certain that today, given the hard work many others have done, that there are boxes that are not bad.  (I do find it interesting that today's designers seem to like very tall boxes--wonder where they got THAT idea??).  BUT, Maggies reveal everything, and as you posted, they are capable of providing "hifi nirvana;" what more can you ask for?

Cheers, and happy music listening!