9221mac@hou2f.UUCP (M.CARLETTA) (04/04/85)
I have been surprised to read the favorable comments regarding Magnepan speakers. I used to have a pair of the mid sized Magnepans (MG-2's?). They did have a clean mid-range, but alas suffered mightily from the following maladies: 1) no bass response - rolled off sharply above 50hz. 2) limited power handling - crank them up and they sound awful. 3) beaming of high frequencies - great if you are in the "sweet-spot" 4) They take over the living room (4' from the walls, remember) 5) Very inefficient - need lots of power to drive them. 6) bloated imaging- sopranos with six foot mouths. To be fair, they have introduced new models with a tweeter, which may solve the high frequency problems, and a good subwoofer will solve the low freq. problems, but if these speakers are only the world's biggest mid-ranges, who needs them? There are a number of "conventional" speakers on the market that will destroy magnepans (JSE, KEF, Snell, etc.) Steve Johnson