Magnepan needs your help

[josh358]

Magnepan needs your help.

Are you willing to publicly give your feedback of Magnepan's proposed new speaker concept? Below are the cities and dates of select cities for the first tour to hear public opinions. Instead of filling out focus group forms or giving information to Magnepan's representatives at the demonstration, Magnepan is encouraging public debate. (Negative feedback can be just as valuable as positive feedback.)

If you are interested in hearing this speaker concept, it is critical that your dealer have your contact information. Winter storms could cause a delay of the tour.

Chicago-- Quintessence Audio, Wednesday, December 11th
Toronto-- Audio Excellence, Saturday, December 14th
Pittsburgh-- Butch's Sound and Vision, Monday, December 16th
Northern New Jersey (Verona)-- Audio Connection, Wednesday, December 18th

- Wendell Diller, Magnepan

 

[SCAudiophile]

It would help to know some details of what concept you are referring to.....

 

[DonH50]

Don't see anything on their website?

I assume this is about their new hybrid approach... Bass panel using an array of conventional drivers.

 

[josh358]

Yep, it's their "30.7 for small rooms" -- two 12" wide planar panels and two(?) compact dipole woofers. Here's the writeup in TAS:

https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/magnepan-doubles-down/

And here's the ad announcing the tour that they ran in TAS and Stereophile:

https://www.audioasylum.com/forums/MUG/messages/23/239546.html

 

[Joe P]

I posted the TAS info here over a week ago. FYI, there's a Magnepan forum on WBF.

https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/magnepan-doubles-down.29385/#post-608115

 

[josh358]

I posted the TAS info here over a week ago. FYI, there's a Magnepan forum on WBF.

https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/magnepan-doubles-down.29385/#post-608115

Thanks, I'll repost Wendell's missive there.

 

[Gregadd]

Proof is in the pudding.

 

[josh358]

Proof is in the pudding.

Guess we'll find out in a couple of weeks! I'm going to do the New Jersey show, and a couple of guys I know are going to do Chicago.

 

[Elberoth]

My suggestion to Magnepan build sth like this:

 

[josh358]

Already sent it on to them. They'd actually been contemplating something like that for the new speaker. But cosmetics are still up in the air, it's one of the things they want input for from the people who attend the demos (and Wendell is hoping that more women show up than usually do, since their opinion is the only one that counts I mean is important too.

 

[Bruce B]

(and Wendell is hoping that more women show up than usually do, since their opinion is the only one that counts I mean is important too.

My wife picked out her OWN Maggies.... She spoke to Wendell at Definitive, telling him how proud she is of her speakers!

 

[josh358]

Can I marry her?

 

[HughP3]

Good for Magnepan and hope they continue to succeed. I loved my 20.7 punched way above the price.

 

[Duke LeJeune]

Yep, it's their "30.7 for small rooms" -- two 12" wide planar panels and two(?) compact dipole woofers.

Good for Magnepan!!

For years I wanted very much to become a Maggie dealer, was getting my ducks in a row and got derailed by a fire. Anyway I love Maggies and have owned five pairs.

One of the challenges in a small room would be, what (if anything) to do about the backwave when the panels must be placed fairly close to the front wall. Wish they were coming to my neck of the woods, I'd try to sneak a peak around back!

 

[josh358]

Good for Magnepan!!

For years I wanted very much to become a Maggie dealer, was getting my ducks in a row and got derailed by a fire. Anyway I love Maggies and have owned five pairs.

One of the challenges in a small room would be, what (if anything) to do about the backwave when the panels must be placed fairly close to the front wall. Wish they were coming to my neck of the woods, I'd try to sneak a peak around back!

That is a problem. The best solution I know is to put diffusion at the first reflection points between the speakers -- but not everyone wants diffusers in their living room!

 

[Zero000]

That is a problem. The best solution I know is to put diffusion at the first reflection points between the speakers -- but not everyone wants diffusers in their living room!

No design pleases all.

 

[josh358]

No design pleases all.

True 'nuf, and there are always going to be some rooms and people for whom a planar just isn't the best solution. However, I'd forgotten another trick, the one they use for their on-wall speakers -- just put the speakers against the wall and angle them in, so that the backwave goes skittering off to the sides.

 

[Duke LeJeune]

True 'nuf, and there are always going to be some rooms and people for whom a planar just isn't the best solution. However, I'd forgotten another trick, the one they use for their on-wall speakers -- just put the speakers against the wall and angle them in, so that the backwave goes skittering off to the sides.

I have often used bushy plants as diffusion to break up those first reflection zones on the front wall, then sufficient toe-in to avoid the same-side side walls.

But aggressive toe-in alone might work just as well, and minimize real estate usage too.

 

[josh358]

I have often used bushy plants as diffusion to break up those first reflection zones on the front wall, then sufficient toe-in to avoid the same-side side walls.

But aggressive toe-in alone might work just as well, and minimize real estate usage too.

Plants are a good idea. Some guys have used fake ficus trees, though I assume they have to be some distance from the wall for that to work.

 

[Duke LeJeune]

Plants are a good idea. Some guys have used fake ficus trees, though I assume they have to be some distance from the wall for that to work.

Yup, a pair of fake ficus trees was usually my weapon of choice. They'd often end up close to the wall which seemed to work fine, just as long as the ficus intercepted the early-arrival part of the wall bounce.