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In Reply to: RE: addendum: remember new coke? posted by Green Lantern on June 01, 2009 at 05:51:51
"-observing their website which shows a pair of 3.6's pushed up against a wall in a waaaay too small room "
Hey GL,
You and everyone else on this thread are correct IMHO. Almost all the changes suggested would be wonderful in a perfect world. Their web site and marketing strategies seems old. They don't accept email. Much of their line (except perhapss the 20.1s) is marketed as value for price to an audience with some money to spend but who are generally not hobbyiests or perfectionists.
If Magnapan told their potential customer base that their speakers would sound their best:
* in a rooms of certain dimensions,
* with the speakers well away from rear and side walls,
* with the addition of room treatments,
* with larger glass, concrete or tile surfaces covered,
* with the listening postion well away from room bounderies,
* with the listener sitting dead center between the panels,
* with large amounts of very clean high current power,
* and with top quality cd playeres and preamps,
then I suspect their sales would plummet.
There are proabaly many tens of thousands (or more) maggies owners living blissfully in ignorance of the truths we believe in. Many of their setups might well appall us and make us wonder why they even bought maggies in the first place. They in turn would probably think most of us were a bunch of anal retentive geeks with too much time on our hands.
This is a business first. They design and build what they think they can sell in a specific market segment, and price the speaker based on the costs of parts and labor and the profit they want to make. They market it to sell the most product they can.
Unlike the maufacturers of box speakers who have to compete with perhaps hundreds of brands of similar looking and often similar sounding speakers, Magnepan has relatively little competition in the panel speaker market, and almost none at the various price points of their models. As a result there is little incentive to redesign their line often. R&D is time consuming and expensive. It doesn't mean Magnepan is not interested in production quality or developing improvements, but staying in business, selling product and making a profit is their primary goal.
Maggies, because you can never be too thin!
Mark
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