Magnapan LRS+ VS .7


Hello All,

Thinking about trying Magnapan for the first time. Looking at mainly the .7s. My room is about 9’ x 12’ and the speaker placement is limited. (It’s my living room with TV and such) Listening location is quite close at about 7 feet if the speakers are out from the back wall 20 inches. Speakers will be placed about 7.5 feet apart. Not much to work with but I have no choice. Actually the whole cottage is only 20’ x 20’. VERY simple easy life, retired. 😎

Anyone have the luxury of being able to compare the LRS+ and .7s? My amp is REGA Aethos. Mostly CD listening for now. Jazz, instrumental guitar/piano, Some R&B, light rock. But, NIRVANA is within arms reach when in the mood.

Can’t really go to a dealer. None anywhere close within four hundred miles. IF they even have them in stock.

Now using SVS Ultra Towers with subwoofer.

Lawrence From MI

 

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As a long-time dipole user, and completely understanding your interest in the Magnepan speakers (I own a pair), my advice is to forget about it for use in your current space. Why? is the obvious question.

The common wisdom is that dipoles need an absolute minimum of 3’ spacing from the wall behind them. That wisdom is debatable: 5’ is more like it in the opinion of those (such as myself) who have learned the hard way that 5’ is required for the front wave and back wave of dipole loudspeakers to be heard as separate events, rather than the back wave being a smearing of the front wave.

The literature informs us (as do our brains) that 10 milliseconds is the time required for our gray matter to perceive two sounds to be heard as separate events. As sound travels at approximately 1’ per ms, with 5’ spacing the back wave of a dipole loudspeaker reaches the front wall (behind the speaker) 5 ms after being launched, reflecting off that wall and arriving back at the planar 5 ms later, where it meets (in time) the loudspeaker. 5 ms plus 5ms equals 10ms, the elapsed time thereby meeting the required 10ms spacing of acoustic events.

When dipoles are placed closer that 5' from the wall behind them, the front and rear waves meet at varying degrees of phase alignment, which creates cancellation and reinforcement at different frequencies. This phenomenon is called comb filtering: peaks and troughs in the frequency response of the loudspeaker. Not good ;-) .

 

Darn, second again.

My dream is to be responder #1.

 

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The LRS is a poor-sounding speaker - a highly colored far-from - neutral device. Go to Audio Science Review and read the test report. Unlike electronics speakers cannot hide from the measuring process (Klipple Near Field System).

Whatever we tell you about how it sounds is our opinion… you have to listen for yourself. Panel speakers do some things extremely well, other things less so.   Because the room is a big part of the sound, if you aren’t willing or able to have them 3-5’ out from the rear wall if that’s what it takes… then take them off your list… 20” isn’t going to work.