Broken hearted...magnepan and vandersteen


I finally got an opportunity to hear the 1.7i magnepan. I will blame my ears and taste, but I was underwhelmed. I heard them with tweeters inside and outside for comparison. outside did sound a bit better. Then I allowed them to play the vandersteen quatro ct. The speakers disappeared into the music. Deep, tall, wide soundstage with excellent imaging and air around the different instruments. Full range sound. Thankfully the trio ct sounded almost the quatros equal. I really was ready to go with magnepan. I was surprised. All other speakers are sounding inferior now. 
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@tomic601 I listened to them at a hotel demo for 2 hours on some top flight sources and AQ cables. They were good but not $150k good. Admittedly, it was a hotel. But other systems sounded better and they had their best shot in a big space.
kenjit,

You should let Richard Vandersteen know that he has been doing it all wrong for the lasts 40 years and several hundred thousand pairs of speakers.  Maybe you can show him how to design a proper cross-over while you are at it as well as what he is doing wrong in designing his drivers.  
Salt and talk are cheap, You do have to admire the willful ignorance of a holiday inn speaker designer

salt and talk and steep slide filters are cheap Pistonic drivers in the pass band, not so much. 
To each his own on sound and value @noromance my offer stands and I guessing the vino is better here than at the hotel :-) oMG what a boring world if we all like the same stuff....
If you truly want to hear a true maggi it must have their great ribbon the the 3.7 or 20.1 and they like a lot of current .