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Maggies moved 6 inches...big improvement

I have never found that my Maggies are so sensitive to positioning as suggested by many users. Perhaps it is because I have three (not two), the room is very asymetrical, and full of randomly placed furniture unlike the dedicated "listening room". I pull them out a few feet from the wall when I am listening seriously, and that's about it.

However, I just moved them about six inches, and it made a big difference. The secret is that I moved them straight up...off the floor.
I have known for decades that Maggies sound best when suspended from a high ceiling, but that option is not available. What I did is put 1X6 oak boards, on edge, under the metal Maggie feet. This raises the speaker about six inches, and provides open space under them. I am not sure why the improvement happens but here are a few ideas.
1. The open space under the speakers.
2. The speaker is more equally spaced to the ceiling and the floor.
3. The speakers being higher, furniture obstucts less.
eldartford
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Albert...I have listened extensively to suspended speakers. How many people who criticize the approach can say this? By the way, have you?

Incidentally, a three-chain suspension would provide the same "coupling" to the ceiling as happens with cones to the floor. In some houses the ceiling may be more stable than the floor, especially when people walk around.
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albertporter
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Hey, I'm just messing with you.

The word "Hang" here in Texas is too common in cowboy movies to pass up the opportunity. I have no doubt that hanging the Maggies would work, just sounds like a Clint Eastwood thing.
theaudiotweak
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Eldartford have you ever direct coupled your Maggies to the floor? Tom
ketchup
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If Maggies couldn't possibly move while playing music then why does nearly everyone claim big improvements when using stands, such as Sound Anchors, that lessen the movement of the speaker?

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Hanging the maggie will make it easier for the reaction to move the speaker because it's just hanging there! Think about how easy it is to push something that is hanging... it takes virtually no force at all. I don't have either Maggies or a physics degree so take this with a grain of salt.
eldartford OP
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Theaudiotweak...Not with Maggies, but I used to play that game with boxes.

Ketchup...I can only guess why people think that.
You are correct that a small force, applied for some time will move a hanging object. But we are not moving it but moving it back and forth at audio frequency. Not the same thing. By the way, if I push my MG1.6 and then let go it rocks at a natural frequency of about 2 Hz. If a Maggie could respond at 2 Hz you might be able to get it going. But they don't.
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