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01 Jan 2010

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First of January 2010:Internet sites are 'a buzz' with news that after 13 years of the Magnepan MG1.6QR dominating the top spot for loudspeakers in it's price point, there is a new 1.7 model...go to the links below for more information:

  http://www.avguide.com/blog/magnepan-mg-17-unqualified-triumph

http://www.soundstagenetwork.com/lasvegas2010/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65:magnepan&catid=38:standout-demos&Itemid=37

 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-10422797-47.html?tag=mncol;title

Magnepan-Updating a Legend Posted Wed Jan 13, 2010, 5:24 PM ET
By Brian Damkroger

 

I finished my first day at THE Show, at the Flamingo hotel. (It's wonderful that CES and THE Show are now within easy walking distance.) Over the years, Magnepan has built some of the best-sounding speakers I've heard, and most often ones that perform at the level of speakers several times their price. The MG 1.6 is one of the High End's true classics and has always been one of its most spectacular bargains. One of Magnepan's demo systems was the brand-new MG 1.7. It's physically identical to the 1.6 but rather than planar-magnetic drivers for the bass and tweeter, the 1.7 use Magnepan's "Quasi-Ribbon." Both planar-magnetic and quasi-ribbon drivers are lightweight diaphragms onto which a conducting element is attached, but in the case of the planar-magnetic, the element is wire. In the quasi-ribbon, it's a very fine ribbon, or foil. The latter is lighter and covers more area, so the performance approaches that of a ribbon, where the conducting elementis the diaphragm. The 1.7s sounded truly spectacular, and at a slated$2000 pair [$2999 AU] is destined to be another winner for Magnepan.

 

 

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