Magnepan 3.7

Gentlemen, where are you getting to hear/audition the 20.1's vs the new 3.7's? My local dealer has a new pair of 3.7's but no 20's so I can't make that comparison. Is there a dealer in the southeast that has both?

I live about 15 minutes from Gifted Listener in Centreville Va which is outside DC more mid-Atlantic than southeast.
Tom Unger the owner has carried Maggie's for years and as of two weeks ago he had his floor 20.1s still. He had them on sale when I was there and he has the 3.7 and 1.7 with system driven by nice Ayre gear

Tom is a very nice guy and his store is where the 20.7 reviewer bought his 20.1s

Mike

I listened to my brother's 20.1s and then the 1.7 and 3.7s at local Maggie dealer here in Portland. So different electronics, but still fairly easy to discern things like coherence (3.7s win) and dynamics/bass (20.1s win).

I owned the 3.6R's and thought about the 3.7's after a demo. Very nice, but I was still disappointed in their micro dynamic limitations and slightly obscure/inflated soundstaging. Inevitably they sound a bit flat and unexciting unless pushed. I have to admit dynamic speakers deliver, well, dynamics better.

My 3.7s arrived and must say an improvement over my old bi-amped MGIIIas. The tweeter no longer seems so distinct from the total speaker if that makes any sense. Need some time for the to break I and still want to swap my old Velodynes subs for a pair of JL Audio F112s. Regardless it is a wonderful speaker right out of the box.

Down side is I am already starting to want to hear the 20.7s but will wait a couple months. Magnepan wants you to come to MN to audition and depending on what the 3.7s sound like after break in and new subs, I may take them up on that. This will likely be my last speakers but 20.7s with the 2 subs is close to 20k.

I knew getting the "upgrade bug" again might get expensive :-)