Maggies and rolled off treble

Chris and other fans:

For "older" Maggies, are you including Maggies with ribbon tweeters?

Or the really old Maggies, like MG-1bs, MG-II's, Tympani 1-D's. I have had several pairs of Maggies and now have Tympani IVa's with ribbons.

To this day, my first pair of Ib's (no ribbon0 were one of my favourite speakers.

cwlondon

Dazzdax No that is absolutely not true !! again it is depending with what amplifier you are matching it period !
-Old Magnepan has a more natural & musical sound balance compare to the new Maggies.
-New Magnepans are more audiphile sounding you will hear cripy micro details a kind of high techno sound(but unnatural compare with live)

---> If you want pure natural sound then go for the Apogee Diva, it has the dynamic punch,the 3-D, big sound stage, far more lively than Magnepan.
Apogee approaches live music much better than any of the Magnepans

I agree with OP, at times I hear Maggies and really like them, but I alos hear them many times and its a dull and boring sound so it is either upstream gear or the model but its hit and miss.

Anytime I've heard the Maggies, they behaved as a most wonderful midrange speaker. I suppose most of the sound is in the midrange so that's ok. The problem I have had with them, is that the "picture" is so small...it reminds me of headphone listening a bit. I always wish I could remove the wall between the speaker and the performer..which was indeed playing right there in the courtyard.

Midrange is the unsung hero of good audio and happy audiophiles.

This is why Magneplanars, LS35a's, Quad ESL 57's, Celestion 600's and precious few others are legendary speakers, many years after they were first manufactured.

In the meantime, neurotic audiophiles spend fortunes on things like "extension" "air" "resolution" and and "transparency" making themselves miserable in the process and then spending another fortune on corrective measures like overpriced cables and silly tweaks.

20 years from now, no one is going to be sentimental or seeking out today's best subwoofers or the most extended supertweeters for restoration.

But original Quads will still be very expensive.