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Magnepan LRS compared to the .7 or the 1.7i ?

With all the hype about magnepan’s new LRS, I am wondering if anyone has compared them to the slightly bigger and slightly more expensive .7 or even the 1.7i?  (I assume they are better than the MMGi that they are replacing, so no comments about these two are necessary.)

I suspect they are new enough that there may not have been many chances for such a comparison.  

So, lacking a side by side, I wonder if anyone who heard them at Axpona or otherwise (I was only there Friday and missed them) is familiar enough with the other Maggies to offer comments/thoughts/opinions between the LRS, .7, and 1.7i.  Comments from dealers who sell Maggies are welcome.

finally, brief conversation with one area dealer suggests they will be more of a factory direct item that he will not carry, while another area dealer hoped to get a pair but did not know the time frame. Has anyone heard a more definitive story on availability?
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celander
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At $650 per pair, it’s only a matter of time before one stacks a pair of them for $1300. Has anyone done this?
tlinkie
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Agree with the remarks upthread that MyeStands or Sound Anchor stands make a tremendous difference esp with the smaller Maggies. Magnepan tries to keep their costs down else they'd include stands like those as standard.
jl35
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I believe Guttenberg has said in other reviews, that in general he does not like subwoofers...
jetter
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I have to laugh. Here we are thinking about ordering the LRS and what do we really know about them? Pretty much nothing but a couple of write ups by the usual reviewers. Their summary; they sound like mini magnepans. Wasn’t it just a week or two ago that the same reviewers were gushing incredible over a Klipsch bookshelf speaker as the most incredible buy at their price, and before that was the buchardt 300 and then the 400 speakers?

I came very close to ordering the buchardts, the Klipsch and had to stop myself from ordering the LRS today. Maybe, if not probably, tomorrow.
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kingbarbuda
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 @noble100 The subwoofer issue you and I have discussed as I tried to state above, is now moot for me. I will clarify this again more directly to again make my point: Based on my own experience which has also been confirmed by other Maggie owners I know, if you are running Magnepans and have not ordered and mounted them on MyeStands, you are cheating yourself and you are not hearing the full potential of these great speakers. I was messing around with a Snell PS.10 sub and a Paradigm 10 inch sub prior  and ran into the feeling of disconnected sound. Subs are hard to synchronize and really match up with Maggies. Anyway, after I mounted my 1.7i pair on MyeStands, the bass got tighter. Everything got more detailed. Just overall a very noticeable difference. I took the subs off my system and I am now selling them. They just aren’t needed. There is plenty of good bass now. For the coup de gras, Get the Mike Powell Audio instant Maggie upgrade. I got the silver one. It replaces the plated steel jumper with a solid silver one. It replaces the stock fuse with a hollow silver tube. Just be careful with you speakers now that you have no fuse. Again another significant SQ improvement. This setup should be the baseline for all Maggies and how Maggies are compared amongst themselves and against other speakers. They just aren’t fully setup without the above improvements IMO. 
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