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In Reply to: RE: LOL! posted by josh358 on June 07, 2014 at 20:17:54
I do not like the way Magnepan is currently run! It is an insult to many, in all the internet forums.The old timers that have known Magnepan for decades are stunned!
The "missteps" with the 3.7i upgrade and launch (no official comment on what was improved), Wendell's public insult to JA, hidden center channel speaker demos, and bogus reasons for no Stereophile review sample, are all insults to Magnepan customers.
Under Jim Winey none of this would has occurred!
You defend all of this, over and over!
You are out of step with the bulk of Magnepan users
The people on the planar forum are a tiny, tiny group Vs the 400,000 Magnepan owners. They buy used Magnepan speakers to modify, and do not like the stock ones. How many happy users even visit the audio forums? Not 400,000!
Edits: 06/07/14Follow Ups:
What I try to do is defend them against uninformed attacks of the kind that so often occur on the Internet and then gain currency merely by virtue of having been stated. And I was doing this long before I knew anyone at the company.
When people claim that Magenpan won't submit its products for review by Stereophile because the speakers don't measure well, and I know that Stereophile's measurements misrepresent the performance of the speaker because the quasi-anechoic measurement technique they use is inappropriate for the measurement of large planars, should I not point that out?
When people accuse Magnepan of hiding a center channel speaker despite the fact that they mentioned the center channel speaker at almost every showing, should I not point that out?
Some forum members run at this stuff swinging their axes like Hagar the Horrible. Minor slip-ups like being tired and pressed for time and forgetting to mention the center channel speaker at a few demos are transformed into evil conspiracies.
This is not the same as agreeing with everything the company does. For example, Steve Ford and I have nagged Wendell to death over his refusal to disclose basic technical details, as in the 3.7i upgrade. But even there, I'm aware that we're speaking from the perspective of people who don't know whether a spec can be mentioned without disclosing trade secrets.
For example, the 1.7 uses a novel series crossover with a .5-way supertweeter strip and I can see why they wouldn't want to talk about that -- it's clever and it doesn't have patent protection. But we didn't know that until Peter Gunn opened one up and made a schematic of the crossover. So if we had criticized Magnepan for refusing to disclose more crossover information, would that have been fair?
Let me quote part of an email I received yesterday from Wendell, touching on the center channel business:
"Something as simple as the desire to have a clean backdrop for viewing the two competing cosmetic designs has not occurred to anyone. Rather there are sinister reasons given."
I think that pretty much says it all.
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LOL. This post of yours reminds me of that old suggestion about what the US should do about the war in Vietnam: declare a victory and leave.
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