I'm not calling anyone out personally for being vitriolic. That was just my overall takeaway from the thread: much vitriol among the naysayers.
It's one thing to say you prefer one speaker to another or that it sounds better in your opinion. But it's then quite another to empirically state that "speaker a is better than speaker b". It begs the questions: With what amp, with what music, in what room...and better in what regard...and so on and so forth.
Maggies are good speakers but they have glaring weaknesses, IMO. Bose 901's are also good speakers and have glaring weaknesses. But I can tolerate the 901's weaknesses much better than I can the Magnepan's. I prize dynamics, powerful bass and lower mids, effortlessness and unfettered sound -sound not tied to a speaker. The 901's give me lots of all these. Maggies, not so much. But really, with me it always comes down to the "big goofy grin" factor. Whatever speaker can put one on my face wins! Klipsch Cornwalls can do that and so can Bose 901's.
