Dirt cheap planar midrange driver!

[Dennis H]

Holy crap! Maggie has done it again. :bluezoned:

The new MMG W is a "single driver" 38"x10.5"x.75" panel meant to be wall mounted and they claim it can cover 100-16K with the boundary loading of the wall. It costs - get this - $300/pair. Does it get any better than that? The mind reels with DIY possibilities - stack a couple for mid duties and add a line of dipole woofs and a line of ribbon tweets. Yum.

http://www.magnepan.com/1-800-474-1646/magazines/mmgw_mmgc.htm

Here's a thread where a couple of new owners like the sound as is.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=365455

[ThomasW]

Yeap, been watching this since the CES. I plan on grabbing a pair for the family room rears when the smoke clears and backorders have been filled.

I also wondering if a couple of the center channels can be stacked to create a larger speaker?




theAudioWorx
Klone-Audio

[Dennis H]

Hmmm, just guessing but it seems like you'd give up vertical dispersion with two of the centers. I'd be inclined to only use one and cross it 1/2 octave higher for equal SPL capability. But who knows?

[PMazz]

Idea may be good but the freq response looked horrible. IIRC, the center measured OK, but the wall mounted jobs.....

Pete

[ThomasW]

Pete,

Historically Maggies have never measured well. The plots tend to look like a photo of the Rocky Mtns......... 8O

However they sound pretty amazing, IMO ..... 8)




theAudioWorx
Klone-Audio

[Dennis H]

SL wrote a letter to Stereophile complaining about the way they measured Maggies. Trying to remember, I think they were doing the 1 meter, short window thing and splicing in the close-mic'd LF response, just like they'd do for a minimonitor. Measuring like that with a big panel gives you HF combing and ignores the dipole bass rolloff. He said they should measure from a few meters away and use a long window like 50 or 75 msec to get a better idea of what they sound like.

[PMazz]

I saw Tom Nousaine's measurements in S&V. +/-9dB 78Hz to 11.5kHz with a huge 10+dB hump from 400 to 2.5kHz. Looked to be almost no high end whatsoever. He measured from 2 meters.

The center channel was somewhat better, but rolled off ~200Hz. Would make it tough to cross over into a sub from there.

Pete