Magnepan’s are a very well known loudspeaker. Perhaps the OP is on the young side (his vocabulary suggests that such is the case ;-) .
I got my first pair in 1973, the original 3-panel Tympani T-I. Looking for more transparency (the T-I was somewhat veiled), and a more extended top and bottom end, I sold them the following year, replacing them with the Fulton Musical Industries (FMI) Model J, which featured six of the wonderful RTR ESL tweeters and a dynamic woofer in a transmission-line enclosure.
I got the transparency and extended high and low end I desired, but paid dearly for it. The tall, wide, and deep soundstage, the lifesize images of musical instruments and height of voices---all "hanging" in space---created by the T-I evaporated, replaced in the Model J by the same old problem of many "box" loudspeakers: the music appeared to be being squeezed through two holes in a wall at the plane of the front of the loudspeakers, all instruments miniaturized in size, voices lowered to waist height. The Maggies---even with their failings---provided a suspension-of-disbelief listening experience, the Model J did not. I now own a pair of the very much improved Tympani, the T-IVa.
And while the Fulton produced a greater quantity of bass than did the Tympani, that bass was not of the same quality. Maggie bass---particularly mid-bass---is extremely "taut", lean and clean. In musical terms, staccato. Very percussive (transient impact), with no overhang, no fat. It reproduces the upright bass like no other loudspeaker, as well as the bottom registers of the piano, and low-pitched (tympani, kick) drums. And while the very lowest notes produced by the pipe organ are missing (the 16’ pipe produces a 16Hz tone!), the "shuddery" quality of the pipe organ sound is reproduced to a degree unmatched by any dynamic loudspeaker I’ve heard. Well, with one close exception: the low frequencies produced by a superior OB/Dipole sub, a topic for another time.
Listeners who are gobsmacked by their first exposure to a Maggie may be forgiven for being unaware of the fact that Magnepan is not the only company producing magnetic-planar loudspeakers. I am mentioning the Eminent Technology LFT-8b because of the main thrust of this thread---the reproduction of the midrange of music. VPI’s Harry Weisfeld declared that the LFT-8b produces the best midrange reproduction he has ever heard, regardless of price. I encourage the OP to attempt to hear the best value in all of hi-fi---the Eminent Technolgy LFT-8b, a steal at $2499/pr. Reviews available on the ET website.
I got my first pair in 1973, the original 3-panel Tympani T-I. Looking for more transparency (the T-I was somewhat veiled), and a more extended top and bottom end, I sold them the following year, replacing them with the Fulton Musical Industries (FMI) Model J, which featured six of the wonderful RTR ESL tweeters and a dynamic woofer in a transmission-line enclosure.
I got the transparency and extended high and low end I desired, but paid dearly for it. The tall, wide, and deep soundstage, the lifesize images of musical instruments and height of voices---all "hanging" in space---created by the T-I evaporated, replaced in the Model J by the same old problem of many "box" loudspeakers: the music appeared to be being squeezed through two holes in a wall at the plane of the front of the loudspeakers, all instruments miniaturized in size, voices lowered to waist height. The Maggies---even with their failings---provided a suspension-of-disbelief listening experience, the Model J did not. I now own a pair of the very much improved Tympani, the T-IVa.
And while the Fulton produced a greater quantity of bass than did the Tympani, that bass was not of the same quality. Maggie bass---particularly mid-bass---is extremely "taut", lean and clean. In musical terms, staccato. Very percussive (transient impact), with no overhang, no fat. It reproduces the upright bass like no other loudspeaker, as well as the bottom registers of the piano, and low-pitched (tympani, kick) drums. And while the very lowest notes produced by the pipe organ are missing (the 16’ pipe produces a 16Hz tone!), the "shuddery" quality of the pipe organ sound is reproduced to a degree unmatched by any dynamic loudspeaker I’ve heard. Well, with one close exception: the low frequencies produced by a superior OB/Dipole sub, a topic for another time.
Listeners who are gobsmacked by their first exposure to a Maggie may be forgiven for being unaware of the fact that Magnepan is not the only company producing magnetic-planar loudspeakers. I am mentioning the Eminent Technology LFT-8b because of the main thrust of this thread---the reproduction of the midrange of music. VPI’s Harry Weisfeld declared that the LFT-8b produces the best midrange reproduction he has ever heard, regardless of price. I encourage the OP to attempt to hear the best value in all of hi-fi---the Eminent Technolgy LFT-8b, a steal at $2499/pr. Reviews available on the ET website.