But planar speakers like maggies in a suitable large room decent placement with a listener seated in the "beam" far from walls IS a good solution to the acoustical problem.
Try dynamic speakers in smaller rooms and you see something else . Big planars have some benefits their dipole pattern makes them less sensitive to be placed near sidewalls and thier large sized midrange and treble drivers makes almost no reflections from the ceiling . And some planars ans electrostats have a narrow dispersion pattern ie small sweetspot the benefit of this is less "stuff" bouncing around in the room. So that you are listening to the speaker not the room. So yes planar dipols is suitable to tame acoustics in some rooms, if they work good for you :) Big maggies sound very good indeed, I have never had the room for them and as i also dable with HT no good 5.1 or 7.1 solutions. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85922 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
