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In Reply to: RE: +1 nt posted by Green Lantern on October 09, 2021 at 04:36:02
Hopefully the 30.7c for condos model will sell better, it's only one panel per side. With a small dynamic open baffle bass unit, IMHO it has the better bass too.
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I'm guessing it will. You really need a dedicated room for the 30.7's, whereas the 30.7 C will fit pretty much anywhere. Still, I think the bulk of their sales will be in downmarket models.
If so, what were your impressions ?
I also heard the 30.7's in Chicago, in December 2019. It was the best sounding Magnepan I ever heard, the main reason I believe is it has a different kind of driver. A dynamic driver which allows it too move more air, which give the bass impact, and dynamic's which I had never heard from a Magnepan before.
I heard it at Lyric in NYC before it closed two years ago. It was fabulous and lyric did a good job and they drew a few hundred people over the course of two days. Was like the 1s time I heard the Tympani 4's at the same place.
The 30.7 for condos is vaporware.
It is not even a product.
It's easy to see why you'd have that impression given the delay, but in fact the design was finished and production approved a while ago.
The reason it hasn't gone into production is because of supply chain issues -- the extrusion companies are many months behind and it was all they could do to get a few sample extrusions so that they could make a prototype. The current plan is to take the prototype on tour.
Hi josh. Nice to see the 'official mouthpiece of magnepan' back. LOL. So given the size of the 30.7c - would be nice to see them in stores.
My 20.7s just seem to get better with age. And their price to performance ratio is off the charts. Do you still have your tympani? I seem to recall seeing some alien speakers in a photo.
Heh, yes, I still have the IVA's with the Neo 8 mod. I'm actually running them with only two bass panels now as an experiment. The low bass panel is mostly the large low frequency resonant section, so I'm filling that in with electronic EQ. The idea is to get the whole diaphragm (or most of it in this case) moving for higher output. It's sounding great, but then it's in a tiny room where using all the panels traps the back wave.
Hi Timm! Still have the old Tympanis. About the only thing that's changed is that I have a new listening room -- it's the same as the old one, only its the mirror image. Long story. :-)
I heard the "condo" setup at a dealer in the Chicago area. It was not a good room, and the bass / upper bass needed more adjusting and contouring than they had time for.
So, the bass / upper bass balance wasn't optimal and the transition to lower mids / mids was not smooth and seamless, though I feel if time had been available to set up the system fully, that such seamlessness was achievable.
The bass was very good, but just not seamless with the mids due to the need for mre adjustment. The mids and treble were fantastic.
The system sounded great on orchestral music, chamber music and on acoustic folk- but on jazz ensemble or on other music styles such as electric blues, rock, EDM and so on, the bass-to-mid transition problems became apparent.
A drum recording also sounded great, and was played LOUD, but it did not feature much content that included instruments with fundamentals in the midrange regime.
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