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In Reply to: RE: The correct magnepan for my room posted by josh358 on December 31, 2016 at 16:17:11
My fireplace will have a hearth and stone going to the 12 foot ceiling. I am starting to wonder if the Maggie's are a good choice for the room?
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You are the slave to Maggies. They have to go where they need to go. If you can't deal with that, they will not work for you. I've never heard any Maggie located near a wall that sounded good. They NEED room to breathe and the back wave needs some space to reflect off the rear wall and match the front wave. No getting around that.
Hard to say. Fireplaces are famously problematic with any speaker, if they project beyond the wall, anyway -- if they're flush, they seem to be fine (see Green Lantern's post).
What will happen with the Maggies or what happened with mine anyway is I didn't get the great soundstage that everyone craves. But they still sounded good. And that was with e.g. symphonic reocrdings. It might not be a problem with the stuff you listen to. And you won't get that great soundstage with non-dipoles either, so . . .
Would it be possible to put the speakers against another wall? Or, alternatively, what about the Maggie on walls? They should be affected because they'd be mounted on the walls -- the back wave then skitters off the side walls. And they'd also save space in your room.
Really, Wendell is the person to ask about this -- as I said, he has more experience with varied customer setups than any of us.
Finally, in the end, you may just have to experiment. For me, anyway, there's always an unpredictable aspect to acoustics in that things never work out quite the way I expected. But I've also always found that I could jigger things around until they worked well, as I did in my room here -- they're sounding quite spectacular now.
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