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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.
eldartford
ketchup
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If Maggies couldn't possibly move while playing music then why does nearly everyone claim big improvements when using stands, such as Sound Anchors, that lessen the movement of the speaker?

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Hanging the maggie will make it easier for the reaction to move the speaker because it's just hanging there! Think about how easy it is to push something that is hanging... it takes virtually no force at all. I don't have either Maggies or a physics degree so take this with a grain of salt.
eldartford OP
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Theaudiotweak...Not with Maggies, but I used to play that game with boxes.

Ketchup...I can only guess why people think that.
You are correct that a small force, applied for some time will move a hanging object. But we are not moving it but moving it back and forth at audio frequency. Not the same thing. By the way, if I push my MG1.6 and then let go it rocks at a natural frequency of about 2 Hz. If a Maggie could respond at 2 Hz you might be able to get it going. But they don't.
theaudiotweak
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This Maggie is damped by its own moving diaphragm and controlled by the amp, the chassis is only along for the ride.Are these speakers self leveling and self balancing at various dynamic levels? Tom
eldartford OP
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Theaudiotweak...What??? You lost me.
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jonoulman
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I realize I'm chiming in on an ancient thread here. I hung a pair of Tympani 1C with a "center mono tweeter" (left over after I replaced both when one blew) from the ceiling in an old warehouse space. 15' heavy wooden beamed ceilings. Hanging bass panels in the corner about 4' from side walls so the center channel tweeter was aprox' 10'-12'out and 5' from ceiling. They were angled down slightly to the listening area. I love the life like qualities of the Tympani and this set up created a very concert like experience. I removed the jumpers and hard wired all connection including speaker wire by passing the crossovers with the largest Monster cable available in the early 1980's. Powered up by SP3A, EC3A, D90B, D350,
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