I’m late to this thread but wondering what the consensus is from those that have actually heard the 30’s and their thoughts on minimum room size; my room is fairly large at 28’-10” L x 20’-7” W x 11’-1” H and it is a dedicated listening space so I am free to arrange equipment and room treatments as needed. Can I get top performance from the 30’s in a room of this size?
Has it got shot of the plasticy Maggie tone?
Excellent question...and as Caesar stated, these colorations are now a thing of the past.
I recently heard the 30.7 at a local demo. It is indeed a superb speaker that can easily compete with most other speakers up to the $100k level. Assuming a couple of things, one..the room does need to be able to support the size of the four panels...and according to Wendell Diller ( who I had an interesting and lengthy conversation with) a minimum of 15’ wide and about 25’ long. So no wimpy sized rooms like I currently use need apply.
Also, a very beefy amp upstream is a requirement, something with some good current capability. In the demo, the large Macintosh amps were being utilized ( not my favorite), but even with these, the speakers sounded very much like Caesar reports.
Lastly, they do benefit from room acoustic treatments to dampen the rear wave and several of our group felt that bi-amping or even quad amping would be ideal.
With those provisos, I believed that the new 30.7 is a real winner and certainly the best Maggie that I have ever heard...and a Major contender in the 30k arena!
If Wendell brings his flying circus to a demo near you, I highly recommend a listen.
Excellent question...and as Caesar stated, these colorations are now a thing of the past.
I recently heard the 30.7 at a local demo. It is indeed a superb speaker that can easily compete with most other speakers up to the $100k level. Assuming a couple of things, one..the room does need to be able to support the size of the four panels...and according to Wendell Diller ( who I had an interesting and lengthy conversation with) a minimum of 15’ wide and about 25’ long. So no wimpy sized rooms like I currently use need apply.
Also, a very beefy amp upstream is a requirement, something with some good current capability. In the demo, the large Macintosh amps were being utilized ( not my favorite), but even with these, the speakers sounded very much like Caesar reports.
Lastly, they do benefit from room acoustic treatments to dampen the rear wave and several of our group felt that bi-amping or even quad amping would be ideal.
With those provisos, I believed that the new 30.7 is a real winner and certainly the best Maggie that I have ever heard...and a Major contender in the 30k arena!
If Wendell brings his flying circus to a demo near you, I highly recommend a listen.
Can 30.7 play very loud like close to 100db?
Apparently the 30.7's come in a choice of other colors. I would certainly look at those and see if any of them were more to my taste, if I were considering this speaker. One thing for sure, i suspect that the WAF factor will certainly be an issue unless she/he has some say in that color choice...and placement, LOL. These guys really dominate a room, as can be seen by the photo above. Wendell actually was telling me that this is the biggest problem that he sees with these speakers...and one that the engineers would like to be able to minimize, but apparently cannot...so far. The size requirement drives the ability of the speaker. Try and get this kind of SQ from a much smaller panel or design...that's what Wendell would like; and so would so many others. Probably wishful thinking.
Davey,
Great points. That's why so many guys go with box speakers, and inherit all of those compromises/ tradeoffs. Yet box speakers still dominate a room.
Apparently the 30.7's come in a choice of other colors. I would certainly look at those and see if any of them were more to my taste, if I were considering this speaker. One thing for sure, i suspect that the WAF factor will certainly be an issue unless she/he has some say in that color choice...and placement, LOL.
My wife would love these if we had a bigger room. She loves her RED Maggies!
Which compromises/tradeoffs? Speaker coloration? Not mine. My monitors also don't dominate the room, and neither do smaller floor standers like the Magico Q3.
Hi Al,
WAF factors aside, I always hear the box sound no matter how much money manufacturers invest in taming it, as I mentioned above. Wish it weren't so, but it is. But I always enjoyed open sound of Magnepan, Soundlab, and MBL, and have had non-box speakers for many, many years.
To each their own opinion, Caesar.
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