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RE: Wow

PG is a craftsman and has a carpenter's attitude towards what is a mechanical product.

The production issues and the QC issues bug him because he would not let come out of his workshop anything with the common QC nits and parts quality issues in the maggies.

Read his criticism with that in mind and it will make sense to you.

As with many other products in audio, the maggies leave alot more off the table than on it. The stock speakers are shadows of their potential.

There is no source upgrade you can make that would compare to the effect of bracing or triamping. I know because I did so. Many of the tweakers here have found it to be so too.

Being more frugal than the cool magnepan, I bought used and modified - the equivalent of a payment plan for a new large maggie and a super amp to drive them. But I ended up with something significantly better and at less than half the cost. But I went a little further than normal and dropped the original Tympani midrange for a line array of BG Neo8 drivers that have all the modern technology I always wished Magnepan managed to apply. Knowing what I did with my Tympani, I know that the retail price of it had Magnepan done so - essentially a Tympani with powered bass and high efficiency neodymium magnet push pull midrange. The retail price would be roughly
basic Tympani speaker: 14,000-15,000,
upgrade to Neodymium push pull midrange 5000
Powered bass panels (2 kw) class D 4000-5000
Electronic crossover (they would use a spec made Bryson 10b) 3000
Bracing structures 3000
Dealer assembly 2000

Total 32,000

They would sell about a dozen of these a year. Would it be a compelling value?

It would be against a set of large 90degree Soundlabs or just maybe a set of 45 degree Ultimate soundlabs.

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