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In Reply to: Why does everyone talk about Maggies? Are they really that great? posted by Wumper on November 4, 1999 at 16:58:52:
This forum differs from, say, the Audio Research forum in that many of the members listen to more demanding music (gross generalization). For those that listen to acoustic music (classical, jazz, vocal), there seems to be a tendency to like "planar" speakers rather than "dynamic" speakers. It's just a preference like everything else. Notice all the discussion of classical music on the Music forum here when only 2-3% of CD sales are classical.The Magnepans are only one type of planar speaker but are very popular because they have some reasonably priced models that, in many opinions, sound far better than comparatively priced dynamic speakers. I have heard complaints about placement but I haven't had any problem. There are some really picky people here, and there is plenty of room for playing around with planar speakers to get different effects. They do sound better after a month and you shouldn't place them right next to the wall but that's not so bad.
Magnepan is getting flooded with orders these days. They don't know why business is so good, but their most popular speaker is $1475 and the wait is 2-3 months. They can't hire enough people. The factory offers a full refund deal on their $500 speaker that is pretty hard to beat too.
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Follow Ups
- One way this forum differs. - BobH 17:34:23 11/04/99 (2)
- Re: One way this forum differs. - Tom §. 05:03:05 11/05/99 (1)
- I told Wendel about it . . . - BobH 08:47:00 11/05/99 (0)
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