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RE: Magnepan center CCR & CC flawed design

Posted by josh358 (P) on September 18, 2010 at 15:35:26

In Reply to: RE: Magnepan center CCR & CC flawed design posted by marty1675 on September 18, 2010 at 14:32:04:

I have a 100" projection screen and there's plenty of room for a Maggie woofer under it. Not sure if it would accommodate the center channel speaker too, I wasn't interested in that, just in finding a way to fit a larger planar woofer in my undersized listening room. Of course, some may prefer their screens lower down. You can't accommodate everyone.

Magnepan sells center speakers because people buy them! And because they do have a legitimate purpose in the case of theater-style seating. But the quality of the Maggie center channel speaker doesn't match that of the 20.1, not to mention most of their other models. Even if it did, the soundstage height would be wrong because they're too low. And a center channel speaker reduces the quality of the stereo image for a listener in the center because of phasing problems. The center channel is there only because it's needed in a theater. And most home users don't realize this, so they waste money on something that merely compromises their sound.

For that reason, I always recommend that people avoid a center channel unless as I said they have theatrical style seating, or have to push their speakers so far apart to accommodate sight lines that they end up with a hole in the middle. In that case, it's still best to disable the center channel speaker when there's no one sitting to the side. The dialogue won't go anywhere if you're sitting in the middle!

IMO, it would be a crying shame to have this stuff reproducing most of the music when it could be reproduced by two true line sources with a much bigger woofer, a push-pull midrange, and perhaps the finest tweeter ever made.

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