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In Reply to: too bad. seriously too bad. posted by mbnx01 on October 19, 2012 at 20:26:18:
I don't think it isn't that they don't get it, but that commercially viable solutions aren't that easy to come up with, and when they do, dealer and customer acceptance doesn't always follow. An example of that would be the on-walls, which are their favored small room solution. Wendell did a blind comparison test before a group of audiophiles, who reacted very positively. But then when the lights came back up, nobody wanted to buy them. And dealers don't demo them, so people can't hear them.
They're also very aware that bass response is dependent on room size. They can only tune the woofers to an average room. This means that they're going to have too much bass in a small room and too little in a big one. Wendell has tried to address this with the DWM, using it to tune output for Tympani-like performance in larger rooms, but it's apparently hard to get that concept across to customers so it isn't something dealers can work with.
I wouldn't rule out large Maggies in small rooms, though. Too little bass is problematic but too much bass can always be equalized down. The real question I think is a practical one -- how do you accomplish that economically in the analog or component systems that so many have? In a server-based system, it's really easy. Also, maybe the reluctance of audiophiles to entertain a solution that involves EQ, even though there's widespread agreement now that bass EQ can improve just about any system.
Personally, I think that they need some higher quality, small room (or high WAF) options beyond the MMG's, the Minis, and the on-walls. I don't know what to say about the 12's because their problem isn't that they don't make them, but that American buyers stick with the MMG's or skip over them to the 1.7's.
The DWM is I think a great tool towards that end their clever use of boundary effects in the DWM's and Wendell's fortuitous discovery of the synergy between the DWM and the MMG's could point in a new direction. I think anyone can have fun cooking up possibilities.
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