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Broken hearted...magnepan and vandersteen

I finally got an opportunity to hear the 1.7i magnepan. I will blame my ears and taste, but I was underwhelmed. I heard them with tweeters inside and outside for comparison. outside did sound a bit better. Then I allowed them to play the vandersteen quatro ct. The speakers disappeared into the music. Deep, tall, wide soundstage with excellent imaging and air around the different instruments. Full range sound. Thankfully the trio ct sounded almost the quatros equal. I really was ready to go with magnepan. I was surprised. All other speakers are sounding inferior now. 
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mcreyn
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Dennis Murphy has had some personal issues and is not currently selling speakers.  Jim Salk is continuing the the BMR and was kind enough to step in and finish Dennis's existing orders.  
gdnrbob
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@OP,
You can also go with the Treo's like I have and get a pair of 2wq subs.
A bit less expensive, but gets you 85-90% of a pair of quatro's.
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glfrancis2 OP
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I have considered something like that also. Anyone have Spatial Audio? Since that has been mentioned here, they intrigue me
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deepee99
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I had a pair of Maggie MG-IIs coupled up with a Vandersteen 2 sub-woof, got all of that stuff for <$1,000 It was a great match except it presented a pretty complicated load, i.e. 1.0-Ohm in some spots, so you need a Bedini or similar big hurky s/s amp to run it.
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liquidsound
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Audioman is right about true Maggie sound (several posts back).  About a year ago, I auditioned the 1.7's and while they were good, moving up to the 3.7i's with the terrific tweeter took the listening to a whole new level !  Some of the best treble response I've ever heard !  What I couldn't believe though is that the audio store had them connected to (IMHO) mid-fi equipment.  When I asked them to move them to hi-fi equipment, they reluctantly did but of course, what a difference !  Why an audio store wouldn't demo a great speaker with comparable equipment is beyond me !  
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