Magneplanar 1.7 Floorstanding Speakers Black Wood Stiles / Black
Magneplanar 1.7 Floorstanding Speakers - Black Wood Stiles / Black. Packaging & Accessories: Original Box. Here we have a pair of rare, at least on the second-hand market, multi award winning loudspeakers from US specialist Magnepan. The 1.7 excels in scale and natural instrumentation, outperforming speakers many times its price.
Design: Three-Way, Full-Range, Quasi-Ribbon, Flat-Panel Speaker Drivers: Thin-Film Metal Conductors attached to Thin-Film Plastic Ribbons Frequency Response: 40 Hz - 24 kHz Sensitivity: 86 dB Nominal Impedance: 4 Ohms Dimensions: 164 (H) x 49 (W) x 5 (D) mm Weight: 23.0 kg. After a 12-year history, reaching a near-iconic standing, the Magneplanar 1.6 has been improved with value engineering. No costly tweaks of questionable sonic value. Magnepan is all about better ideas which give verifiable, high-value sonic improvements. All members of a listening panel chose the 1.7 or the 1.6 in a blind listening test. The 1.7 is a departure from Magnepan's 41-year history of using planar magnetic drivers for the bass or lower midrange. The use of quasi ribbon technology down into the lower midrange and bass will provide a new level of coherence. The quasi ribbon driver is a deviation from the true ribbon design.A very thin film backing is used to hold the delicate ribbons in place. The result in the 1.7 is low distortion and seamless ribbon clarity-a sound so clear and effortless that it has changed the thinking of thousands of audiophiles about planar speakers.
The 1.7 also boasts a quasi-ribbon super tweeter with a wider "sweet spot, " and one step closer to the delicacy and detail of Magnepan's true ribbon design. The 1.7 was subjected to "blind testing" by a panel of audiophiles and casual listeners. In addition to better sound, there is one more important improvement that you can test for yourself.
If you have the opportunity to hear the 1.7s at your local dealer, try this experiment - Ask the dealer to place the speakers with the tweeters on the outside. Note how the imaging remains remarkably stable when seated far off-axis. With some speakers it is necessary to sit in the "sweet spot" for good imaging. If you are too far out of the sweet spot, you will hear predominately one speaker.
With the tweeters on the outside, the 1.7 has the widest sweet spot of any of any previous "Maggie's". If you prefer to sit only in the "sweet spot", try the tweeters on the inside. Whether the tweeter is on the inside or outside, the tweeter should not be closer to the listener than the bass section.
Measuring from your seated position, if the bass panel is 10 feet, 6 inches, the tweeter should be at least 10 feet, 7 inches (think in distance, not angles). Note: Turntable warranties cover the mechanical and electronic components but exclude the cartridge/stylus. Established in 2003, 2ndhandhifi is the UK's largest stockist of used quality audio equipment. This means that all items described as'used' will be in good working order but may show minimal cosmetic marks resulting from everyday use. Any more significant cosmetic issues will be highlighted in the listing if present.We are a business, so (although most times we do) we cannot always answer emails over the weekend, so please try to ask Monday to Friday. If you don't ask, it means you will accept our quote.