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Re: Magnepan 1.6QR Speakers-are you sure...

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about their placement? When I owned maggies I was told by both the dealer and Magnepan themselves NOT to have the distances from the side walls and the back wall be equal. Something about phasing or cancellations. You said you had yours 3 feet in and 3 feet out. Now my logic tells me that you wouldn't want to put them any further apart, that would have the potential to destroy the center image, but why not move them out a little more into your room, maybe a foot or so. That would get you away from that equal-equal situation. Incidently this was the one aspect of positioning that was stressed over anything else, avoiding the equal-equal situation.
Since I live in the Minneapolis area I have had the privilege of touring the Magnepan plant. They are very gracious people there and Jim Winey's son (I forget his name) showed me around and took the time to explain everything. At no point did I feel hurried, al this was done without me having made any prior appointment! The reason I had stopped was to get some tips on positioning, since I did not think I had things quite right in my room. That was when he said that you can do almost anything as far as experimenting around to get 'em right, just don't do the equal-equal thing. He also said to try (I have mentioned this before) trading the speakers places. This puts the tweeter on the other side of the panel, which was how I ended up leaving mine.


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