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A Question for Maggie lovers/owners

I have recently had the great pleasure of listening to some great sounding high end systems recently. These systems had speakers such as Kharma, Wilson, B&W, Thiel, Goldmund. Each system, with the different speakers, had something I admired and truly enjoyed, however, none of them had a quality that I refer to as "musicality" or just a "naturalist" way with the music like my MG-20R's in my home system.

Now, the point of these post is not to argue what the BEST speaker in the world is, their is no BEST, but many great sounding speaker systems, but to pose this question to other Maggie lovers: Do you often listen to other speakers that you enjoy/admire many of their sonic virtues, however find them not sounding to your ear as "musical" or as "natural" as your Magnepans? That other speakers do certain things better, but do not give the "Gestalt" of the music like Magnepans do?

It would be great to hear the opinion of other Maggie lovers or other Gon members who might not agree with this soundpoint.
teajay
mrtennis
3,295 posts
 
i am a magnepan owner. my friend has a pair of mg3s. i like the "sound" of magnepans driven by tube amps.

full range electrostatic speakers, to my ears sound more timbrally accurate than any magnepan.

i have owned quads--the esl and quad63 for many years. ihad replaced quad panels several times and decided not buy another pair of quads.

by the way, the apogees also are more realistic sounding than the magnepans, especially in the mids and treble.
jaybo
4,478 posts
 
if i ever abandoned drivers in boxes, if would be for maggies....no hybrids or quads
guidocorona
4,298 posts
 
MRT, what Maggies do you own? On Apogees my only concern would be that of long term reliability, as the manufacturer has expired a while ago.
55dok
162 posts
 
I've not heard a "box" speaker that I like as much as a fine electrostatic or magenepan properly set up. Mixing a tube preamp and SS amp with propper interconnects correct much of the timbre "inaccuracies" of maggies IMHO. Innersound and soundlab electrostats as well as old modified dayton wright XG-8 electrostats play music beautifully. However my maggies are much cheaper and easier to live with. I have yet to listen to modern horn speakers and reserve comment on them for now.
mrtennis
3,295 posts
 
i own a pair of 1.6s.

i miss the quad esls, but i am concerned about the resiliency of panels when fed a digital signal.
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