In Reply to: RE: Magnepan MG-1.7: casual impressions posted by pictureguy on October 22, 2010 at 09:21:13:
All true, but there's still a peak in the 1.6's bass, even after the dipole cancellation has been accounted for. From John Atkinson's review: "The large peak in the octave between 50Hz and 100Hz is a function of the woofer diaphragm's tuning. This will be ameliorated somewhat by the dipole cancellation referred to by BD in his report. However, in-room measurements I took of the MG1.6/QR did reveal an energy excess in this same region; I'm not surprised that BD found the speaker to sound 'a bit boosted in the upper bass'."
http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/595/index6.html
As I said in the other post I just made, I can think of several reasons why Magenpan might have done this. They include the need to boost the bass to maintain subjective balance in a loudspeaker with limited bass extension, the need for a mild downward slope when reproducing orchestral music with only two channels, and the fact that listeners tend to prefer speakers with a somewhat elevated bass, which I was just reading about in Toole's book.
At the risk of audiophile apostasy, I say just equalize the damn thing the way you want it, LOL.
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