[josh358]

Magnepan needs your help

Are you willing to publicly give your feedback of Magnepan's proposed new speaker concept? Below are the cities and dates of select cities for the first tour to hear public opinions. Instead of filling out focus group forms or giving information to Magnepan's representatives at the demonstration, Magnepan is encouraging public debate. (Negative feedback can be just as valuable as positive feedback.)

If you are interested in hearing this speaker concept, it is critical that your dealer have your contact information. Winter storms could cause a delay of the tour.

Chicago-- Quintessence Audio, Wednesday, December 11th
Toronto-- Audio Excellence, Saturday, December 14th
Pittsburgh-- Butch's Sound and Vision, Monday, December 16th
Northern New Jersey (Verona)-- Audio Connection, Wednesday, December 18th

Wendell Diller, Magnepan

[Letitroll98]

Butch's is about 2 miles from my house, think I'll make it down there.

[josh358]

Excellent! I'll be in New Jersey and a couple of guys on the Asylum are going to do Chicago.

[josh358]

Here's a new review that has more impressions and technical details :

https://www.hifiplus.com/articles/coming-soon-maybe-magnepans-compact-307-for-condos/

And for anyone who hasn't seen it, the original TAS writeup:

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/magnepan-doubles-down/

[Mike B.]

Ask Wendell why not have one at Bradfords in his old home town of Eugene.

[I.Greyhound Fan]

Why no audition here in the Twin Cities?

[josh358]

I think he may extend the tour. Since the purpose of the tour is feedback, It's all up in the air.

[TitaniumTroy]

I took a couple of days off, so I can take my time on the drive back. I'll be attending the December 11th event, at Quintessence Audio. Really looking forward to hearing the Condo Mag's, seeing their size factor is small maybe I can get Wendell to swap them into the "tweets in" position, haha:;>

Quintessence Audio is in Morton Grove IL, which Google maps says is 15.9 miles and 33 minutes from Chicago. It also says I was there 4 yrs ago, forgot it was that long ago. I went to hear some of the Magico line of speakers, I think that I ended up preferring the Sonus Faber speakers.

[SteveFord]

Here's something Wendell sent out earlier today:

One thing I wanted to clarify--- We are not looking for an endorsement or a review.

I think the newsworthy aspect of this tour is the concept of a public focus group. We are setting ourselves up for a potentially embarrassing situation. But, the risk is worth it. We want public debate and discussion. To put this concept on the market and get it wrong would be a costly mistake. So, I decided to make it a democratic process. I am hoping the press will report on it from that perspective.

[Letitroll98]

Stopped at Butch's Sound Shack and met Butch, nice guy.  The demo will actually be in a condo because of the Maggie for condos description.  I'll be taking notes and hope to use my poor literary skills to transmit what I heard to these pages.

[rollo]

  NYC anyone ? I would volunteer my home or another place.

charles