In Reply to: Who owned Maggies and went back to non-planar drivers? posted by cfraser on March 23, 2001 at 02:31:07:
I did, and I couldn't be happier! Truth be told, I listened to 1.6, 3.6, IIIA, and finally 3.3, which I bought because of the true ribbon tweeter. I drove them with McIntosh gear, and for a while thought I had something really special. The vocals were outstanding, the imaging was the best I'd heard, and the upper freqs were as smooth as silk. I purchased a NHT sub and gained some sorely missed bottom end, and thought to myself "It really can't get much better". After a period of many months, however, I realized that every time I listened, during the time the music was on and especially after, I felt dissatisfied; sure, the music was present, but I didn't "connect" with it like I used to. It didn't have any "bite", nor the explosiveness of drums and percussion in general. It was beautiful sound, to be sure, but the life was missing. To make a long story short, I bought an ASL 30 watt tube amp, a Lehman Black Cube for my Rega P3, and a pair each of Klipsch Cornwalls and Heresys. That might be a purist "audiophile approved setup", but let me state for the record that I've never been more involved with the music and I never turn off the system feeling unsatisfied. Go figure.
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- Re: Who owned Maggies and went back to non-planar drivers? - Jester 11:00:19 03/23/01 (1)
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