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RE: Harsh vocals in Magnepan 3.7i

I'm just thinking out loud and not really directing this at anyone but I can't for the life of me understand why these occurrences are limited to vocals and not instruments. And if most vocals are engineered/mix into the center field, I wonder how a trumpet would sound (supposedly the closest instrument to a human voice), would it also sound 'harsh/raspy?

Again, I'm scratching my head on this one; I just know this would drive me crazy as heck.

Then again hell it could just be an anomaly limited to that one pair. Maggies are great speakers but they can also have some weird sh** going on inside em'. Example being when I had my 1.6s they played great for a while and then out of the blue the sound started 'leaning' to the right side and stayed there for a few days. So much in fact I'd have to turn the balance knob to correct it (but it really wouldnt' correct them in a sense). For a while I thought it was just me until I started coming to this site and reading about folks who actually returned their speakers to their dealers who shared the same experience (not very many over the years, maybe one or two). But in my case after a while they would then magically correct themselves and play normally.

And yes, my hearing is fine.

And this would revisit itself just recently with my MG20s. I became a Tidal subscriber about 2 months ago and was having the time of my life until one day most of the vocals and insturments started occupying the right side. So much so in fact I thought my XO's were going bad or perhaps my interconnects were shorting out...but then I'd hear cymbals and midrange/bass on the right side (at correct volume and 'naturally' not abrupt or unnatural) and then I'd relax. But for the most part the vocals would stay to the right -and not just one channel or genre, just about 'every' vocal would lean to the right side. Well the weekend showed up and just when I was about to swap speaker sides I switched over to Pandora and Bam! everything fell into place, every Pandora station had perfect imaging, perfect sound staging with vocals dead center in perfect stereo. Although the quality of Tidal was far greater than Pandora (street version, not high quality) I decided to drop Tidal for now and focus on Pandora, possibly going high qual in the near future. I can't explain why Pandora plays perfectly while Tidal seemed to list to the right side. Of course this isn't really a Maggie issue at all just interesting how this unfolded. I may eventually return one day to Tidal but I'm in no hurry; in fact my listening habits right now are limited due to the wife being off for a couple of weeks and she doesn't 'understand' jazz music.

Well I've babbled enough for now and I know this won't help the OP, but again- I wouldn't discount the fact he may just have a 'weird pair'.











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