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In Reply to: RE: brain storming with Magnepan posted by wendell diller on May 29, 2009 at 13:45:11
This is a little late, but I think it would be helpful for Magnepan and its customers to have the following options as commercially viabe line extensions.
For the larger 2.x 3.x and 20.x three major after-market options are needed with the certainty that they work. The more dedicated among us have been doing them themselves with after-market companies and DIY. Magnepan can make significant margins on these as after-market upgrades to existing speakers that would otherwise not provide any revenue to Magnepan. These same upgrades can be offered in new speakers when ordered.
1. Stands with spikes and back brace, and RF chokes. Do not require opening up the speakers.
2. High grade crossover components.
3. Active crossover with Magnepan chosen filter alignment can be done with a Magnepan (re) badged pro-audio device from Rane or Ashley etc. with perhaps slight upgrades to caps and op-amps, or custom designed by Marchand.
These cover the bulk of after-market upgrades done by the more committed (or committable...) among us. Plenty of us embarked on our projects reluctantly after realizing that the basic models we have are as large as would fit in our listening rooms and as good as is commercially available. If Magnepan had an upgrade available for any of the three items above, we would have either ordered a new speaker with the upgrade installed, or sent our old speakers in for upgrade.
For me personally, making the push-pull midrange available to upgrade (at the factory or DIY) a 3.x/IIIX or Tympani would be great. It is not possible for us to buy a 20.1, because of its cost, its size (too tall for my rec room for example), or because it has too much bass for an intermediate size room (most living rooms).
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