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I love the maggie sound, but just about everyone has captured the key points, both pro and con. For placement, many maggiephiles recommend using the Cardas Placement as a solid place to start. Once you do the calculation you'll quickly realize why they have low WAF in the end. you typically start with using a more traditional speaker. Have fun! Rich Wow Rich, using the Cardas placement guide you can definitely see where the WAF would come into play ... compared to where I have normally have our 80s placed the 60s really do start to take some real estate using the guide. Using our room width of 14' and the suggested Cardas placement guide the 60s are 3'10" from the side walls and 6'3" from the back wall measuring from the center of the woofer.   Oh, can't forget to give a shout out to my helper....  BTW ... Rich, seems like you've been MIA from the boards for the past few months.
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Re: Magnepan MG1.6
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A new Magnepan thread made me realize I never followed up on my audition. I listened to the Maggies a little more over that next week, but didn't purchase them, as I preferred my M80s for the HT, and I didn't have any other area of the house needing gigantic speakers.  My turn off from the Maggies were bass and power requirements and a distant third, aesthetics (not a fan of all black stuff). Would have to look for some possibly uglier options like the somewhat white fabric and light wood trim Maggies which didn't really work for us either.
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Re: Magnepan MG1.6
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Nice pooch.
Love the ears.
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Oh, that's neat. In playing around with my speaker placement, trying to find what imaged best, they ended up nearly in the position recommended by Cardas.
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Beautiful dog, Rick! Is that a Weimaraner? Thanks for the excellent pictorial representation of the Cardas formula. I live in the real world, so it's just "interesting" to me.
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Take my word on it, that dog is super spoiled He is a good ol boy too. Are we talking about Rick or Boomer 
Rick
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Boomer was awesome. My favorite part of visiting coastal Florida. Yes, I'm kidding Rick! 
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Tom, yes Boomer is a very spoiled Weimaraner who we acquired from the humane society just over eight years ago ... he's certainly priority number one on the health and welfare list in our family. Chris I thought the Cardas placement had the 60s a little too close to the listening position, almost seemed a little too much sonically in my face but the narrow width between the speakers (5'6") did provide nice imaging so I ended up moving the 80's a little closer to each other (from 10' to 8' apart) but kept the 5' distance from the back wall. I didn't did get a chance to listen to any music after I moved them last evening but will listen to some 2 ch music today and see how that works out. I think speaker placement is an under rated part of fine tuning the system and that is the one area where I really like to experiment with.  
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Can I have it Dad? Huh? Can i? Can I?
::::::: No disrespect to Axiom, but my favorite woofer is my yellow lab :::::::
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How could you see to take the pics with Boomer wearing your glasses
Rick
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