Offering a pair of Magneplanar 1.5 QR speakersMAGNEPAN MG 1.5QR SPEAKERS - Great overall condition, speaker grills are in excellent condition. Black side rails, no chips, no scratches, beautiful condition, with black cloth grills. Still sound great, used over the years off and on, moving nessitates sale. Sold new for $1350., sell for $475. They sound EXCELLENT, no sonic issues Includes original Magnepan 1.5 shipping carton The design of the MG1.5/QR, and of Magnepans in general, gives rise to some unusual characteristics. First of all, there's no box, hence no box resonances. Second, the '1.5 is a dipole radiator, meaning that its rear-firing wave front is exactly out of phase with the front. Combined with the driver's large area, this results in a more or less planar wave front at low frequencies instead of a traditional dynamic system's omnidirectional radiation. Imagine a barn door moving back and forth, as contrasted to an expanding and contracting ball. Thus, the Maggie’s and typical speakers will load a room very differently, and get different levels of bass reinforcement from walls behind and beside the speaker. One result is the articulate midbass that Magnepans are noted for; another is that large, planar dipoles can seem to have less bass than they should do, due to cancellation between the front and rear wave fronts as they overlap around the edges of the panel. The '1.5/QRs were equally proficient at portraying spaces and performances of all sizes. Solo instruments and small ensembles had the proper size and weight, and the balance of distance and space—listener to performer to surrounding space—seemed appropriate for the scale of the instrument or group. Large orchestras were handled unusually well too, much better than I've heard out of box speakers at anywhere near the Maggnepan' 1.5QR's price. 2-Way Full-Range Planar-Magnetic w/ QR Tweeter rear magnets, Freq. Response 40Hz-26kHz, Crossover Acoustical 600Hz, Power handling 50-250Wrms @8O, Sensitivity 86dB/2.83v/m @500Hz, Impedance 4Ohms, Dimensions 19"×65"×2"
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