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Here is a report from Part-Time Audiophile on the Magnepan 30.7 Demo Event at Hifi Centre in Vancouver, BC.

Timbre, and tone from wood-bodied string instruments was tonally rich, percussion, and bass impact had density, (but perhaps not the slam many are used to from traditional-driver speakers) midrange juice was there, as were clear vocal inflections, upper-register air, detailed decay on piano, and woodwinds too – wherever you were standing in the room, even way in the back corner directly behind the 30.7s, it sounded pretty damn good.

In particular the 30.7s were capable of speed, and resolution. Attack on notes, and transients was lightning-quick, crystal clear, with no smearing, real point-source coherence, and a liquidity to the midrange that put in me mind of another box-less design: The Quad ESL-57 electrostatic speaker, albeit with much more bottom end from these huge Maggies.