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In Reply to: RE: Maggie madness posted by berni on March 27, 2012 at 08:48:25
I don't think it would improve the sound quality of the 20.7, though. Just the efficiency. And I know from talking to Wendell that he's as concerned with value in their top-of-the-line speaker as he is in the MMG's. He very much doesn't want the company to lose its value image and become just another manufacturer of Veblen-priced luxury goods, a category that already has lots of good speaker companies in it. This despite the fact that the luxury market is doing quite well right now, since the middle class is stretched by the recession but the rich and particularly super-rich have been doing better than ever.
However, as Jonathan Valin pointed out the other day in his blog, a lot of people are on their case to do a new Tympani. Everyone has fond memories of that amazing midbass. And since they were formerly a part of their line, I don't think it would harm their reputation as a value manufacturer.
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I disagree with you totally. Building a MG is not as cost efective as you would like to podt out. There is a fairly room for improvement at Magnepan and enough room in the price to achieve it especially with the 20.7. Dont say I am wrong , because if you do, you could be the lawyer or PR at Magnepan. :))
Having a new speaker build will not cost anything?
Anything can be improved, which is why we see new models. I'm not sure exactly *how* you'd improve these speakers at their price points, but I'm sure we'll be seeing .8 versions a few years down the line. Not that I don't run ideas past Wendell. But they're purely speculative "Hey, what about this idea?" stuff, which I'm sure he hears from everybody and his mother. I'm often short basic engineering information, e.g., dimensions, crossover points, etc., and they know more about planars than I do, and the costs and practicalities of their manufacturing operation. They also have a specific corporate and marketing philosophy, and they have to take sales potential and customer preferences into account. There are a lot of things that audiophiles just won't go for, e.g., I've noticed that you can't get audiophiles with space limitations interested in the on-walls, even though they apparently compare favorably to the floor standers. I guess people have them classified mentally as home theater speakers.
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