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RE: Mini Maggies for rear surrounds?

Posted by Tubo (A) on November 18, 2014 at 14:25:36

In Reply to: Mini Maggies for rear surrounds? posted by agentutah@gmail.com on November 18, 2014 at 13:20:58:

I own Mini Maggies and I actually use them as a center channel. :)

The difficulty in using Mini Maggies for rear surrounds is, Where do you put the DWM? The satellites by themselves don't go down far enough to function effectively as surrounds, IMHO. Surrounds should go down to at least 80Hz and the Mini Maggie satellites don't come close (neither do MMGW's, by the way).

Or, are you saying you're going to separate the Mini Maggie system and use the DWM as part of your CC5 center channel, and use only the satellites for surrounds? All I can say is try it, but I have my doubts due to the lack of low frequency extension of the satellites.

In my home theater I have an all-Magnepan lineup for the front: MMG's left and right and Mini Maggies as center channel. For surrounds, I have Rogers LS3/5A's. It works! I had doubts it would work, but I had the LS3/5A's on hand (since the 1970's really). I think the reason it works is due to the Audyssey room correction software in my receiver, an Integra DHC 80.3. Audyssey makes all my speakers work together.

Which means you could try small, conventional speakers that go down to at least 80Hz for surrounds as long as you have competent room correction software. Below 80Hz your subwoofer can take over.

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