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RE: Don't give up on maggie midbass..

Thanks for suggestion. Don't know why but i was not impressed with 20.7 sound plus being a tube guy I don't want to maintain some 16 tubes in each monoblock to drive them....No,no bracing and not about overall output in recreating Jazz club atmosphere. I was frustrated more about eternal question of truthful reproduction. Try for example for curiosity sake to play some overcooked recordings like Chris Jones/Moonstruck/track#3.Ain't got love. or Sara.K/Water falls/Track#8.All your love. on the same Stockfish records. It is like a demo file and showcase for Maggies, making you believe that no bass reinforcement is needed at all. Switching however to normal recording like Patricia Barber/Verse/track#2.Lost In This Love... will reveal all shortcomings. Kind of torture test. Listen to that track on Maggie and then on good dynamic speakers or simple A-B'ing via something like sennheiser hd650 or similar.That comparison leaves me very frustrated.
Or maybe I will give Maggie a second chance due to some crazy experiment I had a few weeks ago. I cheated on Maggie by bringing home two dynamic speakers for comparison- Kef Blade2 and Wilson Sophia3. While I spent most of the weekend comparing between Blade and Sophia in the end I made interesting test. Wilson can not be biamped but Blade fortunately yes,so I played bass section (6.5" 2x2 per speaker.Two separate enclosures combining dual opposing cancelling woofers with port)of blade with Maggies. It was not bad at all thou not perfect since I was unprepared for fine tuning with that type of test but it gave me a lot of food for thought for combining woofer/s instead of subs.Sure nobody will buy blade2 as woofer for Maggie but probably building enclosure using good driver would be satisfying in the end.


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