Magnepan 3.5r Owners needed.... No bass

@nevada_matt 

Physically I did not like the fact that maggies being about the size of most doors, cut my room off. My personal preference is for a much shorter speaker. enter Emerald Physics OB 3.4s which throw as big of a sound stage as my Maggie 3.5Rs, but visually opened up the room (see my Virtual System). Now, if you want more bass they made a version of the 3.4s with both 1 and 2 @ 15" bass drivers.

No longer made but they do come up for sale from time to time at super cheap prices

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Underwood HIFI has an Emerald Physics page that says “new models in late March 2023”

Emailed for an update.

Still, any magnepan owners out there who could chime in on minimum level model to handle 900watts/channel, without blowing up or distorting?

@nevada_matt 

My old listening room for years was 24' wide by 34' long.  Vaulted ceilings. 

Best listening room I've ever been in due to wall materials and some other factors.  I HIGHLY recommend Magnepans for a room like the one you're describing.  

They have serious potential when given the space and not crowded with other things.  Other than a few plants, I had nothing else behind the speakers.  My components were off to the side, which is preferable to between speakers.  When I had that setup, I auditioned many expensive setups and in my head would always think(these don't come close to my system at home.)  I didn't always say it because you don't want to insult someone else's setup that they're enjoying.  And they were some really great rigs.  

But it literally took an $85,000 rig to get into the range of realism and Natural detail that I was getting.  

My point - the room is everything with Maggies and I think most people overlook this.  The room I am currently in is not 30% of what I used to get in my old house.  

But that is what happens when you move to the city.  Unless you have a huge loft or something.  Which many people do have.  

Sound stage in my old room was unlike anything I'd ever heard at any price.  It was not only wide, but so DEEP and holographic that it would stop you in your tracks.  

Amazing.  Sounded gorgeous.  A friend at the time who lived around the corner still had the first pair of Magnepans ever sold.  He bought them new.  They sounded AMAZING.  But again, large rooms, high ceilings.  12 feet, at least. 

I favor this environment for Magnepans and I always suggest this to those interested in Maggies.  

Regarding the sublimes, any other thoughts?  Do you feel they color the sound at all?  Are you satisfied with how they dial things in and tune your system?  Do you feel you're at an advantage sonically?  Cleaner?  Less distortion?  Or just different from passive, as opposed to "better." 

Oh, and another note -  the best setup I'd ever had that I described in my last post --- LAMP CORD.  Yep.  Plain old cheap copper wire.  I always get a kick out of that. I have decent cables now.  Wireworld oasis 8 and some audio quest, etc.  

So I definitely think wires and cables can make sonic differences.  But I always like to temper my desire for higher cables by reminding myself that the best sounding system I ever had was with cheap lamp cord type speaker wire.  HA.  I laugh just thinking about that now.  I used that wire from around 1995 to around 2015.  It really is interesting how that works.  Pretty cool, though.   Hope someone finds the stories helpful.  And thanks to Russ69.  I've been busy working, but absolutely need to pull my banana connectors out further and listen for just this.  I never used to push them all the way in, but at some point began doing so.  Thank you.  Very cool logo, by the way.  I've wanted to get a boat for a long time.