Magnepan 3.6, 3.7 or Tannoy Westminister SE

I prefer Tannoys as I listen to a lot of orchestral and to me the Tannoys produce a more effortless presentation of a full orchestra and a more seemless and coherent sound. If you do listen to the Tannoys though I would recommend you listen to the Canterbury's rather than the Westminster as they are more neutral than the Westminster, no front loaded horn, but still have the 15" alnico drivers.

I have had the 3.6 for many years and if fed properly, they are splendid....pass, bryston, parasound, some high power tube amps, etc. A Tannoy is a very different sound. The maggie treble is legendary and only bested by what I hear from TAD and plasma horn treble by the ionovac tweeter which has a dispersion of nearly 165 degrees and is flat out to about 100k. Acapella uses a version of a plasma as does another maker. But for the money, maggie is a real tough act to economically or sonically do better in natural sound and transparency. A must is have both in your room, play your typical music and then pull the trigger. Jallen

If you have the money for Westminster SE's AND listen to classical music buy them.

Oh, I understood that this is not a fair fight in terms of pricing; however, the purpose is to see if any Maggies' owner would change to Tannoy given that they also like or fall for the SET sound.
I am one of those who like SET sound yet fall for the Maggies type of presentation.
Yet, one recent experience might change my choice for the speakers.
This is because I always find that the Maggies are very demanding on the power as well as the qaulity of the amplifier.
I have used a lot of the so-called powerful tube amplifiers; for example, the Sonic Frontiers Power 3 with all the updates from Parts Connection, McIntosh MC275, Pass Labs and VAC signature 220. The result is good yet, after hearing what the Tannoy will do; it is kind of unforgetable.

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