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Other than the 10.0 being 10'taller and therefore more surface area in bass section. What are the difference's in these similar speaker's. I was just curious, I currently use the 10.1 as my surround speakers.
Is one considered better than the other and if so why? Thanks for any info you can give.
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It's been a very long time since I listened to the MG10.1's.I own the MG10's and they are amazingly good speakers. I've owned them for a little over 16 years. When I was in the market for speakers, I had auditioned as many speakers in the area as possible. But I was just smitten with the Maggies.
My main decision at the time was between a brand new pair of 10.1's and slightly used pair of 10's which belonged to the store manager at half the price. The 10's won for me because they sounded a little better and the price was right!
Main system- Rotel RCD950, Rotel RC1070, Rotel RB981, Magnepan 10QR, Martin Logan Dynamo sub
Headphone system- Little Dot MKIII, Sennhesier HD 580,
Cambridge Audio 640P phono, Technics SL1210 MK2, Denon DL160
Edits: 03/28/14
Can't comment on the specifics, but having owned both the MG10, no question. The 10.1 uses a smaller panel I think. The MG10 sounds much better. The MG10 is like a 1.6 without the big bass panel. I thought the 10.1 wasn't even as good as an MMG.
8-inch woofer
Original MG10 exhibit absolutely astounding holographic line-source sound at life-size imaging ( sounds like a single driver ), but has no/zero/nada/zip/zilch bass. It's exhibit_A on how dipolar panel loudspeaker width/baffle is required to produce bass under real-world conditions. While other Maggies reproduce bass below resonance, these gems don't/won't. Even in an anechoic chamber ( where room wall reflections approach irrelevant ), bass energy they do produce ( audible at extreme nearfield listening ) is so well dispersed that much emanating aft ( inverse phase to that propagating forward ) bends around the slim panel ( like how small monopolar subwoofers act as omnipolars ) to actually move toward the listener ( even without wall reflections ). This obviously interferes with bass energy emnimating forward & cancels it.
To review, bass energy ( long wavelength & low frequency ) disperses more than treble energy ( short wavelength & high frequency ), which leaves less intended to hear. Dispersion is a function of a driver's width verses the sonic wavelength it produces. Then, when dispersion gets huge, there's bass-cancellation ( rear wall reflection only make this worse but that's far less relevant when comparing dipolars of similar baffle surface area to obstruct said echo ).
... just my 2¢♪ moderate Mart ♫ ☺ Planar Asylum
where speakers are thin & music isn't
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