That's true oddiofyl, a lot of great speakers but Maggies don't have a voice coil glued to the center of the speaker cone impeding it's duplication of the complex musical waveforms. The ribbon is more free to shape itself to the soundwave that's being generated. I use a subwoofer sometimes to beef up the lowest register but the 1.7I'S are so transparent in the midrange and treble regions that the recordings sound different than I remember. Even the best Lossy formats sound drab compared back to back with the same CD recording. No other loudspeaker I've owned has so immediately pointed out the lack of detail from CD (1411kb/sec) to, say, standard Spotify (160 / 320 kb/sec). Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" comes alive on CD compared to "Remastered" Spotify or iTunes. These guys are all about data bandwidth.To my humble ears, no paper mache or composite cone that's nailed down in the middle is free to dance freely in producing all the subtle sonic gestures.
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Any company can have a bad run of parts, a batch of adhesives that don't meet specs, etc. One of the best motherboards I ever used was an ASUS, but after a year it starting having mystery problems. Turned out for a period of a few months of production, all the certain value outsourced capacitors were bad and would "pop" over time. |
@fsonicsmith , I guess I’m just a dumb ass. But when you’ve had as many concussions as I have, and you take all the meds that I must, you just try to be nice to people. God Bless my friend. |
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