speaker to big?

Panu21,

Curious on how much of your tile floor is covered by an area rug, and whether or not you have any padding under the rug? Also, what other furniture (couches, chairs, ect) and window treatments do you have in the room? Basically is the room sound hard or soft? Softening the room will allow you to play your music louder, but in general, small rooms and loud music don't really work very well, as you'll going to get overload issues. Something you might want to do is shoot Rick Craig of Selah an e-mail and explain your situation, perhaps there are some minor tweaks (and I'm thinking along the lines that maybe a resistor between the crossover and (+) terminal of the woofer might tone down it's output to a more acceptable level for your room) that you (or him) could do to your speakers that might help solve some of your problems.

An area rug about 4x6 covers the floor. ther is a sliding glasss door behind me covered by floor to ceiling curtain.overall the room is very lively.

Can you audition the maggie's or not; I would keep a eye on the distance from the back wall with maggie's and possibily think of slight diffusion if you were to go with the maggies; I have soundlab m2's and have them 3 feet off the back wall; not until I played with room treatment as suggested by several persons on this forum especially rives
did I really see what these speakers were capable of.
I don't have any experience with power for the maggies but I am sure several people will respond to that open question.

FWIW, with panel speakers and electrostats, you need a fair amount of space behind them to get the best imaging available. Too close to the rear wall and you will be combining the first reflections with the primary signals which will blur sharp images and may seem bright as well. I set up Quad's about 4.5' in my 13.5x19x9 room and still had to use diffusion materiel behind them.

I've never brought Maggies home for a listen but from what I've read they like power and sound best at higher volume. They are excellent speakers if set up right in the right room but I suspect they might not be a solution for your problem. :-(