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Maggies and rolled off treble

Hi folks, I don't want to offend anyone but I think Maggies, especially the older types have significantly rolled off treble! The sound is because of this rolled off treble rather midrange oriented, which could sound very pleasing, but at the same time there is limited resolution due to this treble behaviour. Of course I could be wrong and I'm suffering some sort of hearing disorder/loss, but this is to me a consistent finding. Listening to those Maggies is a nice listening experience, until... you fall in sleep because of the shelved down treble response.

Chris
dazzdax
rademaker
88 posts
 
It depends on the power-amp & other electronics you are matching it with.
If you have top notch electronics, then I can assure you it is one of most musical speakers ever made.
Especially the midrange of the old Magnepan is au par with the immortal classic Quad ESL 57.
Poor electronics won't let the old magnepans sing !!!
dtyoshih
12 posts
 
That may be true of the older maggies but from my experience the new maggies are hot on the treble if anything.
jafox
1,467 posts
 
the new maggies are hot on the treble if anything.
Indeed on the 3.3/3.5/3.6 series. Unless the system has a severely rolled off top end, a power resistor value of 1-2 ohms is a must on the tweeter attenuation terminal.

Do the older models also have such terminals? If so, is there a resistor there? And if so, try a lower value or none at all.
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