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In Reply to: RE: A note from Magnepan posted by josh358 on March 19, 2017 at 08:05:11
I'm probably responsible for at least a dozen sales of Maggies over the last 15 years - I show pictures of my system when I teach my Architectural Acoustics class - and often discussions come up at lunch afterward. It is rare that anyone has ever heard of a planar speaker - and if so it is a Martin Logan they saw at Best Buy they mention. These customers are acoustical consultants, architects, environmental engineers, HVAC engineers, and other mostly technical folks.
I think it is the failure of the industry, the demise of the local hi-fi store, and then in some ways the lack of avocation we, as participants do in this industry.
We are a great point - with the resurgence of the LP and turntable to grow the practice of listening to music again.
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius
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I think you're right, but how can we change that? With half of the country living out of range of an audio dealer now, Magnepan has addressed that with products bought through the Internet and "samplers" like the MMG. But as Wendell likes to point out, Maggies have to be heard -- it's their sound that sells them. And with only a handful of high end dealers most people don't have that chance anymore.
Even after being heard, and therefore of course lusted for :-), many people just don't have the room for a pair of Maggies in their home, even the smaller models. Big panel speakers will always be in the rooms of only the most dedicated music lovers/audiophiles; those lacking the space necessary for panel speakers are forced to listen to music via boxed ones.
I watch those shows on HGTV where couples looking for a new home tell the show host what rooms they need. When I went looking for my last one, a room of sufficient size and proportions for my speakers was my number one priority. Luckily my better half was willing to indulge me!
The WAF was happy for me to have the rec room in properties we were looking at. Those are usually in the basement. Which is where I ended up - but she wants that space for my workshop and office as well. Which makes most finished rec rooms too small.
Now she is looking at smaller houses most of the "finds" she comes across and shows me have me setup in a pole barn separate from the house. I guess she is cluing me in on something. ...
BINGO:
My major requirement when we bought our house (late 80s) was that it have room for my stereo.
We saw lots of larger homes with NO ROOM based on lots of little rooms, poorly placed fireplace and other thoughtless 'features' that it made me nuts.
Too much is never enough
If I ever move you can bet that a big mother listening room will be the second requirement, after only high speed Internet.
My wife let me take over this downstairs room. 16' wide by 34' long, just added a First Watt B4 and bi-amped
Edits: 03/27/17
That is seriously nice! Does she do polygamy?
awesome! In your profile I see you do wood work, I assume you made the rails(?)Would love to see after market rails in exotic woods.
Edits: 03/28/17
That would be sweet.... I too would love to see that.... You could do Tiger wood.... whatever.... Martin Logan has 'Bubinga' which is like a striped wood of some sort or other....
I get the profitability factor -and not being able to do this stock necessarily - but, the 3 and the 20 are obviously statement type of speakers in any room.... It would be really interesting to see them in some exotic wood - I agree.... I think I saw someone here or elsewhere doing something with bamboo... I just don't know if it would be the proper material or not...
this is from the tweaks section by EmailTim who no longer post here. He found someone to custom do his 3.6 rails .
they are cherry, I love woodturning too.
Wish I could have picked a house with that kind of space, but the few we came across that had such a space went rather quickly but I am ok with my 17X20 space.
BTW, have you tried a Limage setup? or something similar?.
It's true, alas. Not just panel speakers but all big speakers are suffering from this problem. Apparently it's why you're seeing so many of those narrow towers now -- they fit between the furniture.
Let them have the .7s. I'll have the 20.7s. Give me the basement. I don't care. These are speakers that are not background listeners. Maybe I'm a dinosaur. I don't care. What I know is that I love music. There is something about listening and letting your imagination fill in the rest. Just please don't stop making them!!
My lovely Tympany 1Ds, bought new in 1976 and enjoyed ever since. Room is 35' long and 22' wide with an open L to the right. Perfect for them. I heard them for 30 seconds at Lyric and had to own them. Have not heard any speakers I like better.
The way I look at it, the small speakers are so that they can continue to make the big speakers for us. :-)
I don't think the market for real speakers is ever going to go away, they're just becoming more of a boutique item -- and as someone with a small room I empathize with all the guys who don't have room for the big speakers that they'd like. The only reason I can get away with my absurdly oversized for the room they're in Tympanis is that I have a dedicated room . . .
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