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In Reply to: RE: HELP - Wendell, Josh, whomever!! posted by timm on June 19, 2017 at 17:56:46
Unfortunately, I don't think Magnepan has much of a choice. There just aren't that many dealers left. They'd love to have them all show the 20.7 but it's the dealers who decide what to stock and dealers now just aren't seeing much high end audio traffic anymore, they're getting a lot of their revenue from custom installations now. So presumably all but the biggest can't afford to stock big expensive items the way they used to.
At one point, they even offered to fly prospective 20.7 buyers out to the factory at their cost for a demo and a tour. Not sure if that deal is still on . . .
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Good points everyone. From reading them something occurred to me: The Vandersteen and Wilson dealers I was thinking of, who stock and demo those companies highest priced models, are located in S. California, where there are a lot of people with considerable discretionary money to spend on Hi-Fi (not me ;-). The dealer margin on those speakers provides him a lot of income from the sale of even a single pair, unlike the more moderately priced Magnepan speakers, even the 20.7---which is cheap compared to the Vandersteen 7's, not to mention most of the Wilson's, which are grossly over-priced imo.No one wants Magnepan to go the "high-end" route, making products they charge more for, so they can sell less of them a quarter and stay in business. They are to be applauded for staying "blue-collar". I admit it, I don't have the solution either!
Edits: 06/21/17
That's another problem that they have -- the middle class has pretty much disappeared since the Great Recession. The people who are spending money are the rich -- precisely the sort of people who will go in and buy overpriced Wilsons.
It is fun to imagine what a cost-no-object planar would be like. I think I'd go with a triple ribbon, Maggie ribbon in the center with two 1" midrange ribbons on either side. Then yuge planar panels for the bass and midbass. And yuge dynamic woofers for the bottom octave. Or a phased array electrostatic line source with planar woofers. Maybe some motion feedback H frame dynamic woofer towers for the bass instead of the planar panels?
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