Replacement for Maggie's?

Much of the "feel" of the Maggies is due to their dipolar radiation pattern. With proper placement, the reflection of the full-spectrum backwave off the wall behind the speakers arrives late enough to be highly beneficial in terms of timbre and richness, without any downside. You might look into other technologies that give you additional spectrally-correct reverberant energy, but are better suited to deliver bass impact and dynamics. For instance, the polydirectional Shahinian Obelisk comes to mind.

Duke
dealer/manufacturer.

look into king sound

I tried a set of Maggie's purchasing a used 1.6QR. I tried to like them but while I was amazed at their ability to image and create a huge sound stage, their lack of bass was a big issue for me. I am not a sub woofer fan so that was not an option. One option I considered which you may want to as well is to look into the Peter Gunn mods. From what I have read and heard from Maggie owners, including Duke whose Jazz Modules I own and who may still have his set of Gunned MMGs, the mods really are worth it.

So I sold off the Maggie's and when delivering them to the buyer helped set them up. Ironically his other pair of speakers were the Shahanian Obelisk's. I noticed a couple weeks later he had the Maggie's for sale. Food for thought...

Another suggestion for you - along the lines of Chadnliz, who suggested line-array speakers - are speakers from Selah Audio. http://www.selahaudio

how about Martin-Logan speakers? I realize that they are electro-static speakers but you are already used to plugging in your speakers!

I'm not a fan of panel speakers for their laser like sweet spot, dynamic ability and generally poor transition to what ever is being used for low frequency. A trade show is no place to be critical of a product but I was extremely impressed with Sanders Sound Labs complete system which seemed to avoid those pitfalls.

The only other panel system that impressed was a pair of Soundlab powered by Wavestream Kinetics V8's set up almost near field in a small room at the Analog Room in San Jose.