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RE: Wow

>That's terrible to hear. I was hoping that there would be a way to ensure that this brilliant technology continues to live regardless of how well/lousy the original manufacturers are doing.

It will, it's already used by several other manufacturers. Eminent Technology makes push-pull speakers that are similar to Maggies. Two or three companies make Apogee clones. BG and Wisdom make planars iwth enclosures and highly-regarded planar magnetic drivers:

http://wisdomaudio.com/index.php

Some of those BG planar drivers are used in offerings from other companies as well.

But none of these companies occupy quite the same niche as Magnepan. HP, in describing the 20.1 in his 2011 Editor's Choice list, wrote, "It is one of the rare high-end components that comes close to suggesting the sound of music itself." I fear that if Magnepan disappears or as not infrequently happens with these companies gets sold, that unusual combination of naturalism (which IMO many high end speakers lack) and economy will go as well.

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