josh358
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| Why don't you like Mageplanar speakers? Devilboy, Magnepan is one of the largest high end speaker manufacturers, with over 100,000 sold. If so many things had to line up for them to work, that wouldn't be the case. As it happens, few of us have setups that are ideal for Maggies, or for ... | |
| Why don't you like Mageplanar speakers? Charles1dad,According to Wendell Diller at Magnepan, the reason Maggies aren't more efficient is that neodynium magnets would cost the buyer more than a more powerful amplifier. That being said, they'll work perfectly well for most people with an ... | |
| Opinions on Magnepans sales/marketing approach to Great news! | |
| Why don't you like Mageplanar speakers? Dracule, please note what I said about the Valin comment -- "I think most people would second that, while agreeing with some of your other objections." I wasn't commiting a fallacy of authority; I quoted JV merely because he had said, elegantly an... | |
| Why don't you like Mageplanar speakers? Doug, as you say, all speakers have shortcomings. I think JV summed up very well what I and many others have always loved about Maggies. But I don't think anyone would suggest that dynamics can't go deeper, that horns don't have better dynamics, o... | |
| So Many Apogees for sale, and so few takers Hi Chadeffect,I think I know what you mean about the diffuse sound. I've always wondered if that wasn't due to comb filtering from the out-of-phase backwave. This is something that doesn't occur in life -- you do get comb filtering from reflection... | |
| Why don't you like Mageplanar speakers? "As well as they did many things, realistic bass with "slam" was not one of them."Photon, ever here the Tympanis? Near-dynamic slam and extension, combined with planar naturalism. Overall, it was the best bass I've ever heard. Of course, they aren... | |
| Why don't you like Mageplanar speakers? Charles1dad, what Maggies have you heard? Your description sounds very different in some respects than my own impression, e.g., realism? As Jonathan Valin just said of the 20.7's, "The listeners for whom the 20.7's are very nearly ideal--for whom ... | |
| So Many Apogees for sale, and so few takers Hi Chadeffect,According to the manual for my IVa's, they "can exceed 110 dB RMS at the listeners seat in a 16' x 25' room with an amplifier rated at 200 watts at 8 ohms."Someone on the Audio Asylum measured some Tympani woofers and I think he said... | |
| So Many Apogees for sale, and so few takers Chadeffect,I had Tympani 1-D's for many years, and used to play them at fuse-blowing levels with a wide range of material -- classical, rock, movies. I never heard them rattle on a bass drum. The only time the 1-D's woofers ever got into trouble w... | |
| Magneplanar 3.7 - recommended preamp and amp I'm hesitant to add this because it's at the high end of your budged, but people have been raving about the Sanders Magtech. I don't think I've ever seen so many glowing reviews. It's the one I would want to try. | |
| Ideas on speaker like Magnepan but with high WAF Audionuts, agree that other well-designed speakers will give you a 3 dimensional soundstage when set up right. They can't do height, though. Only a line source can do that. Also, many speakers aren't well designed. At a minimum, polar response has... | |
| Ideas on speaker like Magnepan but with high WAF Hmmm. AFAIK, your quest is impossible. A full-height dipole line source is going to have a different soundstage than a smaller speaker. Omnis are one possibility, as someone mentioned. But you run into problem two, which is that it's hard to match... | |
| Opinions on Magnepans sales/marketing approach to Mike, as far as I know, Magnepan doesn't have a say in this. The dealers choose what they want to stock. They've been trying to find a way around the shrinking dealer network. The Dealer Direct program allows you to try a speaker in your own home ... | |
| So Many Apogees for sale, and so few takers I sued to think that, too, but apparently it wasn't the case. It seems they went out because they were too expensive to make and repair (they had a large number of ribbon failures). The Grand in particular, while by all accounts one of the best sp... |