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Magnepan needs your help

Magnepan needs your help.

Are you willing to publicly give your feedback of Magnepan’s proposed new speaker concept? Below are the cities and dates of select cities for the first tour to hear public opinions. Instead of filling out focus group forms or giving information to Magnepan’s representatives at the demonstration, Magnepan is encouraging public debate. (Negative feedback can be just as valuable as positive feedback.)

If you are interested in hearing this speaker concept, it is critical that your dealer have your contact information. Winter storms could cause a delay of the tour.

Chicago-- Quintessence Audio, Wednesday, December 11th
Toronto-- Audio Excellence, Saturday, December 14th
Pittsburgh-- Butch’s Sound and Vision, Monday, December 16th
Northern New Jersey (Verona)-- Audio Connection, Wednesday, December 18th

- Wendell Diller, Magnepan
josh358
josh358 OP
286 posts
 
Exactly! It's like a dream come true for planar owners -- I'm imagining my IVA's now with a tiny sub rather than 36 inches of bass panels.

As you say, the current sub has about the radiating area of two 12" woofers. I've heard others say the same thing you have about the GR Research dipoles, that the number you need depends on the size of your room. Wendell demoed these in Magnepan's listening room, which is actually a pretty sizable room -- just not huge. I can imagine versions of this with stackable woofers, as with the GR's, so you could adapt them to larger rooms.

I think Magnepan may have a real winner here -- I don't know how many times I've heard people say that this or that Maggie is just too big.
arion1
39 posts
 
Dipole woofers can work great with planar speakers. We have been using our dipole woofer modules with our Analysis Audio speakers for several years with great results. Our dipole woofer modules each have two 10” long throw drivers and are designed to be stackable. Our experience tells us that typically one pair of woofer modules is enough for all but very large rooms or larger open concept homes.
richopp
760 posts
 
They keep doing it...making the speakers that reproduce what you feed them.  I still remember my first listen in 1974...and I have had zero speakers other than Maggies since then.  As a former dealer, I was fortunate enough to hear pretty much every speaker made for many years, and while some boxes are OK--Fulton comes to mind--nothing lets music sound like it does when I play it on any given musical instrument better than Maggies fed by first quality hardware.

Some companies come and go; not so here, and there is a reason.

Cheers!
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mijostyn
8,570 posts
 
Hi Wendell,
I would love to but NJ is a bit far for me. I live in NH. I have owned and set up countless Maggie's. 
What I can tell you is that if the 20.7's were 7' 10" tall they would be near perfect for anyone with an 8 foot ceiling. If you are going to do a line source please make it full range! I think your bass projection would improve and the speaker would sound more balanced.
josh358 OP
286 posts
 
Isn't there a show in upstate New York that might be closer to you? There's that, Toronto, Chicago, and New Jersey so far.

BTW, Wendell would love to make panels that extend floor to ceiling! The problem is that nobody would buy them. But he knows it's ideal for a line source, in fact he even did a demonstration once in which he stacked two .7's to show the difference a full-height line source makes.






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