Magnepans in a small room


Does anyone have experience with 1.6 or MG-12 Magnepans in a small listening room? Mine is 11' x 13'.
scotthobby
Thank you all for taking the time to respond to my question. I especially appreciate the analogy from Audiokinesis.
FORGET IT. I've done MG12's in a 15x14 room and they DID NOT WORK. I'm now using LS3/5a's in that room and they sound great.

-M
i am using 1.6s in a room 11 7/8 by 17 3/4, powered by vtl deluxe 120s in triode mode, 45 watts.

i have sound absorbing material--foam on the side wall and behind my chair.

i have several room tunes behind the speakers. the 1.6s are about 6 feet from the back wall.

the result is fine. using various accessories, especially the z sleeve has solved the bass problem.
It helps if the room is dedicated to audio. You have a couple things working against you. The distance of the maggies to the wall behind them. The distance between the your ears and the wall behind them.

Pulling the maggies out 54 inches into the room will help. Then start pushing them back until either the soundstage (Depth especially) collapses to an unacceptable point, or bass suffers too greatly.

And since the room's dimentions are finite, with the maggies out into the room, you won't be able to move your listening chair out too far. The way around this is to treat the wall behind your ears with something absorbant. This helps with two things. With your ears that close to a reflective surface (Rear wall) you're going to get some smearing of treble detail. It may even fatigue you. Any thin cloth behind your ears will alleviate this. The other problem with the rear wall is bass energy will be reinforced (mild boom at some freq). A thin cloth will not absorb bass satisfactorily (it didn't for me). So you'll need to pad the cloth treatment with more material. I suggest multiple layers of fiberglass available from your home improvement store. It will be concealled.

1.6s will work with these treatments in that room size. 12s will sound nearly the same, be more tube-friendly, and won't create as much excess bass energy. If you have to consider the 12s do to room decor, or budget, happily choose the 12s and do not look back.
My 20.1s sound amazing in my studio. . . Ya their huge but people's jaws just drop at the sound. I have them 3ft from the side walls and 4ft from the back walls and actively bi-amp them with room correction through a Mini DSP and Room EQ Wizard. You may or may not find you need to add more speakers in your small room to do room correction on the lower frequencies to cancel out the nulls and peaks that tend to happen in a small space with MSO (multi sub optimizer). This is the problem area IMHO that full range speakers have in a small space. 

Good Luck :)
- Steve