Magnepan 3.7's versus 20.1's?

The 20.7 has been given a mini review by JH on the TAS website. Expect an introduction at CES 1/12. For those who suggested it wouldn't happen, it did.

Yep. However, it was never a question of whether it would happen but whether it would happen this year, and initially even Magnepan didn't know, because they didn't know how long it would take to improve the 20.1.

Still, who was it whose dealer told him it was coming several months ago? And someone else said no, it was going to be a new Tympani? He's officially the winner of that debate, heh.

doesn't matter who guessed what; what matters is saving up enough dinero to buy the 20.7s.

That would be me Josh358. Evidently my local dealer knew a little more then he did. And his claim was that he got it from Lyric and from a direct call to Magnepan.things It made no sense that my store and others that I've seen on here were selling their 20.1 demos. My dealer has been dealing with Magnepan for over 30 years. That being said, the problem now lies in that I'm still waiting for my 3.7's. It has been over 3 months and I was just told that it could be a few more weeks. It is understandable that these are made mostly by hand and there is great care and pride taken in each pair. But, according to said dealer, the word is that things are not running quite as smoothly at the factory as they should be. I'm almost tempted to just drop the 3.7's and pre order the 20.7 but I might be waiting for them till 2013.

I know what you mean about the wait. As I recall, the 1.7's were delayed for a while because their milling machine went down. The 3.7's if I remember correctly started shipping not long after their introduction at CES. The Mini Maggies took two years, but that was because they had to catch up on the .7's first. I'm thinking that a call to the factory makes sense, before everyone leaves for the holidays. The may be able to give you an idea of when they'll ship.