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RE: Not for Me

My ESL experience is limited to dealer auditions. I spent a fair amount of time (by appointment) listening to Quads (model# forgotten but this was around 2001), ML Odyssey and a Maggie 3.3. They all had their merits, the Quads having the most "life-like" reproduction especially when it came to female vocals. Unfortunately the singers did not seem to have a life-like 'height' to them (at least in that room on the limited recordings I brought that day). The MLs had the height obviously (those suckers are pretty large) but I didn't like the integration between the panel and the cone. In the end the MG3.3 had the most alluring signature sound among the three. Maybe not as perfect as the Quads but damn close. What nailed the coffin was when I played Luther Vandross song 'Superstar/Until you come back to me' and I heard his backup singers 'standing' back, and to the right singing into the microphone,-all three of them.

I'll tell you what though-the Apogee Duetta Signatures I once owned picked up where all three of these left off in terms of clarity, presentation and dynamics. In the end I kept my MG20 over the Apogee because of it's bass. Anyone who thinks Maggies don't have bass should come over and listen to these giants; I literally had the curtain rods and picture frames shaking the other day while playing John Barry's "looks like suicide" from the Dances with wolves soundtrack. Thanks also in part to the Emotiva XPA-1, the 'poor man's Krell'.









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