Can Magnepan survive Wendell Diller?

@secretguy 

We'll see who laughs their ass off when I post my final video on YT. 

Just because some people are full of it, doesn’t mean all are. I've screen grabbed your reply so I can hang it on my studio wall with my other trophy’s. 😉

"...Magnepan became successful because it was based on a patented design..."

A patent means nothing if the product doesn't sell. Magnepan became successful because the Tympany was a very good sounding loudspeaker. 

OP, you stated this: "and they can buy these back from me". Interesting comment! Have you somehow approached Wendell, or anyone at Magnepan, and they have turned down your offer to "improve' their product-- at a price! This would explain a lot of where you are coming from, inquiring minds and all that...hmmm.

OP is merely another disgruntled, anonymous keyboard warrior with certain, shall we say "issues." Meanwhile, Magnepan is very much alive, vital, and doing quite well.

@daveyf

Yes, several times. Either it’s crickets, or sorry not invented here. Heck, I even tried through an order form out of desperation, after posting this originally.


While they have a devoted following, and their customers would love dearly to help them, they seem immune to reason; almost cult like.


I’ll even throw them a bone here: No reasonable engineer would design a sound panel with square corners, for the same reason airplane windows are not square, or that junctions between two planes are vastly stronger with fillets: corners magnify vibrations and create vectors for sympathetic vibrations, and they are a major weakness in mechanical design.


No one currently working on the planer model of speakers that I know of seems to notice that the sympathetic vibrations and standing waves generated in the membrane on the panel are a result of those corners, just as audiophiles understand that standing waves in a room generated by parallel walls and uniform depth combine to destroy coherent sound.


So in the domain of planar speaker patents, that one just left the building because it’s now in the public domaine, if it wasn’t already.


Most people have no idea how time consuming researching prior art is, so no, I wasn’t going to bother considering the changes I’m making to my panels is just for my personal enrichment.