Agreed. You really have to have the right space for them and place them properly. There’s a guy who lives close to me that has trafficked in planar speakers of all flavors who I connected with at the time (he still does it, I see his stuff on FBM occasionally). He gave me a lot of good advice and even came by the house one day to make suggestions on placement. I really didn’t have the space for them, but we got them sounding pretty good with a little tinkering. The sound “space” you get out of them is amazing. There’s no comparison with paper cone speakers.
That and they don’t do much for the low end, as well as requiring some serious wattage to work. If you’re looking for theatrical surround sound that shakes your seats they’re not the choice, or you augment them with a subwoofer. -D > On Dec 23, 2022, at 5:56 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > >> Magnepan speakers were pretty amazing if they were in the right space. The >> average home listening room was not the right space, however. > > Planar speakers like those work very well, and are quite fussy as to room > dimensions and placement. > But if you can set them up right, little can beat them for accurate sound. > (Hint: they have to be out > in the middle, with plenty of space behind and around them. Audiophile Feng > Shui: place the speakers > first, then the listening chair, then everything else.) > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
