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Maggies moved 6 inches...big improvement

I have never found that my Maggies are so sensitive to positioning as suggested by many users. Perhaps it is because I have three (not two), the room is very asymetrical, and full of randomly placed furniture unlike the dedicated "listening room". I pull them out a few feet from the wall when I am listening seriously, and that's about it.

However, I just moved them about six inches, and it made a big difference. The secret is that I moved them straight up...off the floor.
I have known for decades that Maggies sound best when suspended from a high ceiling, but that option is not available. What I did is put 1X6 oak boards, on edge, under the metal Maggie feet. This raises the speaker about six inches, and provides open space under them. I am not sure why the improvement happens but here are a few ideas.
1. The open space under the speakers.
2. The speaker is more equally spaced to the ceiling and the floor.
3. The speakers being higher, furniture obstucts less.
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Aball...Tilting them back, which is usual practice, does not open up space below them. If you had occasion to lift a MG1.6 your concern about a "frail frame" would disappear!

Albertporter...Your comment suggests an amusing game. What form of execution is appropriate for different speakers? Hanging is indeed appropriate for Maggies...speakers for the common man. Bose should be strangled. Your Megalines, so patrician, should drink hemlock.
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Theaudiotweak...Tympani 3a's would be hard to hang. Sometime when you have the appropriate speakers and listening space (a barn would be good) try hanging them.
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Remember Clint Eastwood in "Hang 'em High?"
"When you hang a man you better look at him."

Or for Audiogon
"When you hang a speaker you better listen to it"
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Albert...I have listened extensively to suspended speakers. How many people who criticize the approach can say this? By the way, have you?

Incidentally, a three-chain suspension would provide the same "coupling" to the ceiling as happens with cones to the floor. In some houses the ceiling may be more stable than the floor, especially when people walk around.
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Hey, I'm just messing with you.

The word "Hang" here in Texas is too common in cowboy movies to pass up the opportunity. I have no doubt that hanging the Maggies would work, just sounds like a Clint Eastwood thing.
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