Magnepan durability

Maggie's are very revealing and may be more position dependent . As far as durability, never a problem with our own kids.....they learned from a young age. However when the neighbor child visited one day, over one went and it became a trampoline on the backside.

My dear wife thought I would not notice the slight buzzing. But to make a long story short, Magnepan replanarized it, changed out the Mylar, tuned up and it came back as good as new at a very reasonable repair cost (for our neighbor). I would say they're bulletproof as have owned 3 pairs over the years and would still have them except for WAF.

i recently purchased a pair of mmgis slightly used and noticed as i ran my hand up and down the backside cloth of both speakers....i came across a sharp /tack/staple  like  object standing proud of the baffle in 2 or 3 areas..it will come thru or against the fabric as its depressed...anyone know if this is normal ?

There’s no way I’d put Maggie’s in a room with a toddler. The good thing is if they are toppled, they are not heavy. I put my now departed Snell E3’s in the basement until my son was 5 and they are far more stable than Magnepan planars. 

I owned a pair of Tympany IVs when my kinds were 0 to 5 years old. These were the old-style 3 panel room divider speakers which I literally used as room dividers between my dining room and living room. They actually sounded great in this location with about 14 feet behind them and playing into a room that was 15' x 20' with a two story high cathedral ceiling. 

I never had a problem with the kids knocking them over. To be honest, I never even thought about it as a possibility. I guess I got lucky. 

I've owned three sets of Magnepans over the years, starting with MG-1s. The last pair I had were 3.6Rs.

I've had a couple of reliability issues, which I don't really fault Magnepan. When I had the MG-1s, I had a cat that used to love to climb them. I had one panel eventually go bad when the cat's claws eventually broke one of the wires in the membrane. This was repaired fairly inexpensively.

I used to really crank the Tympani IVs (with a Levinson ML-3 amp) and I blew the ribbon tweeter twice over about six years. Again, this was easy and relatively inexpensive to replace. Magnepan just shipped me a new ribbon and it was easy to replace with a few screws and soldering two wires. This was over 30 years ago, and I think the ribbons are a bit more robust now. I never had an issue with the 3.6Rs even though I would occasionally plan them pretty loud. 

they are both great , look for a used pair of TREO, but any toddler can topple anything.....