Stacked/Double Advents..a modern version?

I think it's a cool idea and worthy of some experimenting. Not too many years ago Harry Pearson went nuts over the Sound Dynamics 300ti speakers that sold for around $500/pr. I have often wondered what the potential for a stacked pair of those would be. If the speakers could be bought for good prices on the used market it could work out nicely. Plus you could angle each pair slightly to increase lateral dispersion -- sort of adjustable imaging. Nowadays, you could even do this with decent mini-monitors and add subwoofers. It would certainly increase power handling and reduce distortion at high volume levels. Food for thought and experimentation...

Here's the one that gives the ol' double Advent the boot. I happen to have two sets of Magnepan MMGs and an Rel sub for my home theater setup and, having been around audio for over 30 years, I tried the Advent trick a some time ago.

The Advents were pretty good, not the last word in fidelity but produced a very satisfying sound and real good music.

I tried doing the same with two pairs of MMGs and it works too. Keep in mind that the MMGs are a REALLY good, REALLY musical speaker with REAL limitations, like volume levels, somewhat limited base response and they want vast amounts of power.

Since I has lots of amps I tried the double Advent trick with the MMGs and the results were excellent. A BIG wall of sound that gives nothing away to megabuck speakers.

Keep in mind that I'm prejudiced. I like Magnepans. I've owned four pairs of them over the last 20 years and currently have three pairs (2 MMGs and a pair of 1.6QRs) and in my opinion, there isn't anything out there that can touch the MMGs for affordability and performance. They make music, good music, not just good sound.

Since they are already a 4 ohm speaker, when I doubled them I needed 4 channels of amplification. Not having a matched pair of amps and not wanting to use my HT receiver, I used a Luxman 363 (125wps) and a Mcintosh 2105 (105wps) with a CJ preamp.

The results, as I said above were great. A wall of sound, all the volume you could ever want and music, music music (I was also using my Rel Storm with the rig).

And by "music", I mean music!. You just can't do anything else while it's playing. When I had it setup, I used to rush home and run through records and cd's every night.

Unfortunitly, it was a pretty massive setup that wasn't compatabile with my living room and my wife. But really, it's about as good as it gets with "on the cheap" equipment.

Al Havemann (AFH)

Thanks for the input Al. I have been a Maggie fan since the early 70's when I worked at an audio store that sold them and Advents..among other things.
How do you feel the double MMG,s compare to the 1.6?

Best, Jim