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Magnepan MG20 with Crossovers (One of the World's Great Speakers)
This pair are in excellent condition. These are black on black. Nothing comes close to them for the price in terms of transparency, soundstaging and neutrality. Will not disappoint. These come with the crossover and will compete with any speaker at any price. $4900.
Have original boxes so can ship safely. For not much more than the 3.6R you can own the flagship Magnepan and the sound quality of the 20 is in a different league from the already superb 3 series.
Will consider audio gear in trade or partial trade.
Model MG20
Description 3-Way / Ribbon Tweeter - Planar-Magnetic
Freq. Resp. 25-40kHz +-3dB
Rec Power 100-250 W
Sensitivity of This Model 85dB/500Hz /2.83v
Impedance 4 Ohm
Dimensions 29 x 79x 2.062
With close to sixty square feet of radiating surface, front and back, the 20Rs can move air, and, since they do radiate front and back, they move that air through an angle of virtually 360 degrees-just like musical instruments do. When you couple a very large radiating surface and virtual 360-degree dispersion with unenclosed, nearly massless drivers of extraordinary speed and integrity, you end up with one of the most naturally-sized soundfield, peopled with the most naturally-sized and naturally-detailed instruments, you'll ever hear.
Although it has been said before (by HP, most memorably), the 20Rs have one of the most natural octave - to-octave balances of any loudspeaker in the world. By this I do not mean that they necessarily measure flat in an anechoic chamber. (I really don't know how they measure anechoically, and furthermore I don't care.) What I do mean is that, properly set up in a real-world listening room, they sound like one, big, smooth, neutral, coherent sound source, from top to bottom.
But the Maggie ribbon is in a class by itself. Simply put, this is the best tweeter I've yet heard. Nothing else rivals the natural tone colors, superb transient attack, and simply incredible infusion of air that this ribbon reproduces-and, properly set up and driven, reproduces without a hint of the grain or metal-dome brightness of speakers- in-a-box or the frying-pan sizzle of 'stats or the P.A. edginess of certain horns. I've simply never heard cymbals, triangles, upper octave strings/ flute/piccolo/piano/harp-just name anything that plays into the treble-reproduced with this kind of natural delicacy, speed, and air, air, air.
So what have we got here? A big planar speaker that throws the widest, deepest, tallest, most coherent soundfield I've heard from a hi-fi system, filled with the most naturally-sized instruments I've heard from a hi-fi system, with the sweetest, most natural timbres I've heard from a hi-fi system, the finest dynamic nuance I've heard from a hifi system (particularly in the treble), and the most natural illusion of instrumental "action" I've heard from a hi-fi system. What we've got here, in sum, is "realistic reproduction" in the highest sense of the phrase, in the sense I spoke of earlier: the virtual duplication of instruments and voices, rather than mere analogs of certain aspects of their sound.
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