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RE: Could you do a review of a borrowed product?

Actually, they measure fine. Here's a measurement of the little MMG's that my friend JBen posted over on the Planar Asylum:





However, look at this measurement from Stereophile:

http://www.stereophile.com/images/archivesart/magfig3.jpg

A reader looking at that would think that it has a 20 dB rise in the bass! Ouch! It's mostly an artifact of the up-close measurement technique but I can see why Magnepan might be reluctant to see a graph like that in a review -- one that shows the bass equalization that compensates for the 6 dB/octave dipole cancellation rather than the frequency response at the actual listening distance. JA would of course explain that it was a measurement artifact but how many readers would just glance at the graph without reading the fine print?

Of course, I don't blame people for thinking that Magnepan is hiding something here.

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