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In Reply to: RE: After over 20 years MMG gets an update - MMGi posted by Green Lantern on May 22, 2017 at 20:49:45
Well ... take a company like Cary for instance. You purchase a product and you can pick different options like better binding posts, or hexfreds etc. not saying this necessarily fits their current business model - but other small companies are doing it. They do it with things like different wood , colors, materials making the frame. Why not just take it one step further.
Granted, they may not want to do it. And maybe things get complicated quickly.
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I think that from their perspective, they can do more for the sound by increasing the size of the woofer or adding a ribbon tweeter -- at which point they have a new model. They have occasionally offered upgrades, like the 3.7 to the 3.7i.
The MMG in particular is intended to be an "appetizer" that encourages people who aren't familiar with Maggies and don't live near a dealer to consider a larger model, so it wouldn't make sense to increase the cost.
Many listeners have the WAF situation (and/or their own space limitation problem, e.g. 3 feet from their rear wall) with a MMG. Unfortunately therefore larger models are out of any consideration. So, I guess they hope to get the last ounce of performance out of their MMG.
Isn't the fact that many listeners invest in having their MMGs 'gunned' to achieve that goal?
"Many" listeners? I would estimate that of all the MMG inventory in the field providing service, well less than 1% of them are 'gunned'.
The vast majority are in a bone stock configuration and have never been modified or tampered with at all.
Dave.
Davey, my mistake, and please accept my apology.
I should have written many of the listeners who visit the AA to learn, etc. and NOT the 'silent majority' who might not even know/care about its existence.
That's true. I think the .7 was their attempt to address that and I know that Wendell is very concerned about WAF.
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