In Reply to: RE: Magnepan at CES where? posted by Neuro on January 9, 2009 at 17:44:05:
"Best sound so far? Well, no doubt about this one. Magnepan had a huge screen blocking the view of some new speakers they are coming to market with. We listened to the ten minute demo and could not see what we were hearing. As a magnepan owner, very familiar with the Maggie sound, I thought they sounded MUCH better then my 1.6s, whatever they were. Very open, warm, lifelike and spacious. The bass was deep, tight and full. So the demo ends and they ask what we think before unveiling them from the curtain. They sounded so good, I honestly thought we were listening to a new flagship speaker from them. Nope. Lights came on and back there were a pair of the smallest and cutest maggies Ive ever seen. Maybe a foot high and six inches wide on top of some two foot stands!!! The company is dumbfounded by what they have designed (they actually stumbled on to it by trying to make computer speakers for the desktop) and has no idea how to price or market
them because they also feel they are better then half their lineup. They asked us for help!!!!! Basically they are using the true ribbon tweeter and midrange used in their flagship speaker, but on a tiny scale! The mini maggies only go down to 300 hertz so They also used in the demo two magnepan woofers, for the bass, which are basically hunks off the 20.1 flagship. The planar magnetic woofers will list for 500 dollars and are passive and go to 40 hertz. This demo had myself, Bob and Jeff literally flipping out. Its all we talked about at dinner. Magnepan has no idea on how to price the mini maggies so I dont know what they will list for Other will be inexpensive though because of what a consumers perception of what your getting size wise) but Im already thinking of how to sell my huge 1.6 maggies so I can get these dinky things!!!!! Goes to show again that small and simple monitors like this one are the way to go sometimes."
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Follow Ups
- From an imate attending the CES . . . - Opus 104 19:26:12 01/09/09 (46)
- DeHavilland used to show with the Alon Lotus Elite Signature - Al Sekela 10:55:22 01/12/09 (0)
- Some Thoughts - Peter Gunn 07:51:12 01/12/09 (16)
- RE: Some Thoughts - Norman M 18:28:51 01/14/09 (1)
- RE: Some Thoughts - Peter Gunn 19:12:54 01/14/09 (0)
- RE: Some Thoughts - rpcoins 11:22:57 01/12/09 (10)
- Travis makes a good point - Peter Gunn 14:28:44 01/12/09 (3)
- PG is right - gymwear5@hotmail.com 18:51:32 01/12/09 (0)
- why keep 'em under wraps? - wazoo 17:35:24 01/12/09 (0)
- RE: Travis makes a good point - Cory M. 16:38:17 01/12/09 (0)
- RE: Some Thoughts - Travis 12:28:57 01/12/09 (1)
- RE: Some Thoughts (and parallels) - 6sigma 12:44:11 01/12/09 (0)
- Magnepan used the 1000 watt Brystons because.... - joeljoel1947 12:16:04 01/12/09 (3)
- RE: Magnepan used the 1000 watt Brystons because.... - Norman M 09:44:07 01/14/09 (1)
- Agreed. - joeljoel1947 09:57:11 01/14/09 (0)
- RE: Magnepan used the 1000 watt Brystons because.... - gcouture@bellsouth.net 18:12:00 01/12/09 (0)
- "I can hardly wait for the messed up model number they assign them." - Opus 104 10:30:36 01/12/09 (1)
- they could take a page from Bob Carvers book... - mbnx01 12:51:02 01/12/09 (0)
- Magnepans religion - mbnx01 09:09:55 01/12/09 (0)
- Crossed over @ 300hz - ltcolumbo 13:02:36 01/11/09 (8)
- My IIIas cross over from bass panel to mid panel @ 340hz (-6dB mid-point)! :-)) ... - andyr 00:09:12 01/13/09 (5)
- well, typically - wazoo 04:26:39 01/13/09 (4)
- I agree with you, waz ... a central woofer crossing over at 300hz is strange concept.. ... - andyr 13:58:13 01/13/09 (3)
- it appears that the game has changed - wazoo 16:22:21 01/13/09 (2)
- RE: it appears that the game has changed - Travis 16:35:49 01/13/09 (1)
- why? - wazoo 18:03:43 01/13/09 (0)
- I'm inclined to agree - wazoo 16:17:36 01/11/09 (1)
- RE: I'm inclined to agree - gcouture@bellsouth.net 18:15:06 01/12/09 (0)
- RE: From an imate attending the CES . . . - KKM 17:03:26 01/10/09 (0)
- how many postage stamps will it take to ship those suckers!? - Green Lantern 11:25:00 01/10/09 (8)
- RE: how many postage stamps will it take to ship those suckers!? - johnvb 15:31:10 01/10/09 (7)
- not workable - mbnx01 16:00:58 01/10/09 (6)
- RE: not workable - Dawnrazor 16:28:00 01/10/09 (5)
- why is that, I wonder - mbnx01 16:49:07 01/10/09 (4)
- RE: why is that, I wonder - Dawnrazor 17:52:31 01/10/09 (3)
- and number four... - johnvb 18:50:44 01/10/09 (2)
- and others - Dawnrazor 00:02:40 01/11/09 (1)
- It's worth a try, thanks...nt - johnvb 05:13:37 01/11/09 (0)
- What did they look like? - rr999999999@yahoo.com 10:15:28 01/10/09 (0)
- The answer to my wife's dreams! (nt) - neolith 08:23:54 01/10/09 (0)
- RE: From an imate attending the CES . . . - Norman M 06:57:16 01/10/09 (1)
- RE: From an imate attending the CES . . . - Norman M 07:00:36 01/10/09 (0)
- whoa- - Green Lantern 20:18:33 01/09/09 (0)
- RE: From an imate attending the CES . . . - EmailTim 20:15:07 01/09/09 (0)
- RE: From an imate attending the CES . . . - Neuro 20:06:59 01/09/09 (0)
- The Maggie of PG's dreams! ;)) - Cory M. 20:06:10 01/09/09 (0)
- mini maggies in the CAR! - panhead 19:37:58 01/09/09 (0)