Mini Maggie's!

[Rosewind]

Originally Posted by SundayNiagara

These speakers are for the guy who loves Maggies but his war department won't allow them in the house. He'll buy them for the office and enjoy.

Hi there.

That is spot on. I even had a set of Mg 12s in the attic (yes ... not placed in the livingroom with my Naim gear)., I showed my wife a photo of an MG 12 and her reaction not only prompted me not to show her the set I had hidden in the Attic but also forced me to sell on. This was 6 years ago.

Since then I have worked in mysterius ways to persuade her that The 1.7s or 3.7s in off white will blend admirably into our livingroom. But I have to say that I am not entirely convinced that this will stand the test of reality: ENTER the Mini Maggies ... To be used in my study.

Best wishes,
Peter

[mgard]

Originally Posted by Rosewind

Hi there.

That is spot on. I even had a set of Mg 12s in the attic (yes ... not placed in the livingroom with my Naim gear)., I showed my wife a photo of an MG 12 and her reaction not only prompted me not to show her the set I had hidden in the Attic but also forced me to sell on. This was 6 years ago.

Since then I have worked in mysterius ways to persuade her that The 1.7s or 3.7s in off white will blend admirably into our livingroom. But I have to say that I am not entirely convinced that this will stand the test of reality: ENTER the Mini Maggies ... To be used in my study.

Best wishes,
Peter

Hey Rosewind, welcome to AA. It is great to have another fan of Maggies. I am listening to my 3.7's right now. I'll bet the wife wasn't to amused that you snuck one by her. I have the 3.7's in my living room. I have to push them up against the wall when I am finished listening to them. A bit of a pain but what is a guy going to do? My 3.7's have the nice Cherry wood which looks much nicer than the all black 1.7's I had before. That was a big plus. I didn't pass on the difference in price. Some things are just better not known..
The Mini Maggies would certainly do nicely if one has space constraints.

~Mike

[klao]

Just heard the system first time yesterday, albeit in a big room. I guess I'll abandon the plan to buy a new working chair and save the money for those minis in my study instead.

[mgard]

Originally Posted by klao

Just heard the system first time yesterday, albeit in a big room. I guess I'll abandon the plan to buy a new working chair and save the money for those minis in my study instead.

A wise purchase that will bring years of enjoyment.

~Mike

[ths61]

Originally Posted by SundayNiagara

These speakers are for the guy who loves Maggies but his war department won't allow them in the house. He'll buy them for the office and enjoy.

I bought a set for my wife's home office and she loves them. They sound very nice. Best desktop speaker I have heard to date.

[mgard]

ths61,

Welcome to the Magnepan forum. Thanks for posting and please tells us more of your impressions. What type of supporting electronic are you using to drive the little Maggies and what type of music does your wife like to listen to?

~Mike

[McPlanar]

Originally Posted by SundayNiagara

These speakers are for the guy who loves Maggies but his war department won't allow them in the house. He'll buy them for the office and enjoy.

Originally Posted by Rosewind

Hi there.

That is spot on. I even had a set of Mg 12s in the attic (yes ... not placed in the livingroom with my Naim gear)., I showed my wife a photo of an MG 12 and her reaction not only prompted me not to show her the set I had hidden in the Attic but also forced me to sell on. This was 6 years ago.

Since then I have worked in mysterius ways to persuade her that The 1.7s or 3.7s in off white will blend admirably into our livingroom. But I have to say that I am not entirely convinced that this will stand the test of reality: ENTER the Mini Maggies ... To be used in my study.

Best wishes,
Peter

I just don't understand this negative WAF for Maggies!? Maggies aren't ugly and they sound wonderful! I guess I was lucky with my second wife (now ex) in that we did the speaker search togeather and settled on a pair of MG1.0 imp which I still have and use. Have any of these Maggie hating women ever listened to a pair of Maggies?

[SundayNiagara]

Originally Posted by McPlanar

I just don't understand this negative WAF for Maggies!? Maggies aren't ugly and they sound wonderful! I guess I was lucky with my second wife (now ex) in that we did the speaker search togeather and settled on a pair of MG1.0 imp which I still have and use. Have any of these Maggie hating women ever listened to a pair of Maggies?

They don't want men to have toys!

[redm]

If I was going to spend serious money one a desktop system, it would probably be in a nice headphone amp and pair of headphones.

[ths61]

Originally Posted by mgard

ths61,

Welcome to the Magnepan forum. Thanks for posting and please tells us more of your impressions. What type of supporting electronic are you using to drive the little Maggies and what type of music does your wife like to listen to?

~Mike

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the welcome.

The MiniMaggies are being driven by the following chain:

i7-3770S Win7 64-bit/SSD PC -> JRMC18(FLAC) -> Wyred 4 Sound MicroDAC -> Wyred 4 Sound STI-1000.

We have our entire digital content on tap. Our entire CD collection was ripped using dBPowerAmp Reference in order to get bit perfect rips. We also have some downloaded HiRez content up to 24/192 as well as some ripped DVD and BluRay concerts at their respective native resolutions.

Once she leaned how to use JRMC-18, she uses the library much more than she did with the shiny spinners.

She likes upbeat music, soundtracks and dance music for the most part, but also appreciates some of my audiophile stuff (she also dislikes a lot of my stuff =). She replays a 24-bit Ryan Adams and The Cardinals live concert performed at "Das Haus" in Germany a lot. This has a huge sound stage and is a recording straight off the concert's mixing board.

The MiniMaggies sound really nice when they are setup properly.

For reference, we have a pair of MC2's, 3.6's, 20.1's. When I got the MiniMaggies (ordered without hearing them), I plugged them into the HT to break them in (didn't recalibrate ARC). She was downright upset with my purchase until I moved them to her office and properly set them up after break-in. Once they were properly setup, I asked her to come into her office and listen. She was less than pleased telling me she had already heard them and wasn't impressed. I sat her down and played some of her music with a nice sound stage. Her face lit up and said they didn't sound like that before. I told her that is because they were not setup properly in the HT room. She now cranks them to the point where they interfere with my conference calls.

They are the best desktop speakers that we have heard to date. They present a left-2-right and front-2-back sound stage. We were looking at the Anthony Gallo's in the same price range, but did not like their sound and waited for the MiniMaggies to finally make it to market.

They work nice in a near-field office setup, but have not found them to be a 3.X replacement for a larger room. On the other hand, I have not spent a lot of time trying to get the most out of them in a larger room.

I would buy another pair for my office in a heartbeat, but my office has too much ambient noise to appreciate them. My office has too many servers running, while her office has a very quiet purpose-hand-built PC.

I have some other amps around that I may try with the MiniMaggies in the future, but I have no complaints about the current setup. The next office mods are solid core doors that seal on 3 sides with a bottom drop-down flap for better isolation.

HTH,
Tim