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In Reply to: RE: Tympani IV vs IV-A? posted by Norman M on November 09, 2014 at 17:52:38
Not without subwoofers and you don't get quite enough output in the mids. The 3.6 are great speakers, just not really full range.
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'Satie' wrote:
"The manual and 30 hz figure is for the Tympani IVA (and IV - hardly anything is different) not for the 3.6; I never heard a 3.6 do satisfying Liszt on piano."
Liszt wrote a lot of soft, non-bass heavy (and relatively quiet) piano music, so IMO nothing extraordinary in the way of a speaker would be required to reproduce that - so your blanket statement (?) regarding Liszt compositions seems silly. I'm confident in that inmates here can improve upon the listening experience in and around using Maggies, however the OP inquired about the bass output of stock Maggies; Tymps IV, IV-A 2.X and 3.X. Similar to the majority of Maggie users (and not those in the asylum, excepting cases in which warranties remain in effect), I've only listened to stock Maggies.
In my listening room, 3.6s fail to 'turn me on' (using any program material), so I don't regard them as being good speakers. Even my dealer who installed them told me that there is much I'd have to get used to in order to enjoy the 3.6, as compared to my IV-A, at least in my listening room.
(I have a recording of Mahler's piano quartet, 1876 (DGG 447112), which I don't think requires a sub-woofer to satisfactorily reproduce. Coincidentally, many years ago when I told my dealer [who naturally is in business to sell equipment] that I was interested in buying sub for use along with my IV-A he jokingly replied 'what for?, your IV-A is a sub!)
There is plenty of mellow melancholy Liszt but that is not what we think of when we hear the name, we think of a Faustian Liszt battling his demons in the piano concertos Mefisto Waltz and the Paganini etudes, not the Abbe contemplating existence here and beyond in the anees de pelerinage.
Since I listen to chamber music at in the room volumes I can easily see the 3.6 not being able to fill that bill either. I think of the Tympani IV and IVa as a great speaker and the 3.6 as a good or very good one when biamped. I don't expect it to be a near tympani in performance. I am sure that the maggie novice asking about the relative merits is not quite aware that the Tympani is predecessor to the MG20, not a deconstructed 3.6.
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