Magnepan Mini Maggie Loudspeaker System

Chris Martens has posted a review of the Magnepan Mini Maggie loudspeaker system ($1490) at AVGuide. His conclusions:

“But let me supply just one further anecdote,. One day I played a very realistic drum recording, “Drum Solo by Dirk Sengotta” from the Henrik Freischlader Band Live [XYZ/Pepper]. Suddenly, there was a knock on my listening room door. A relatively shy, quiet member of our office staff poked his head in the door and said, “Forgive me, but I just had make sure you hadn’t moved a real drum kit into the office, because from just outside the door it certainly sounds like you’ve got the real thing in here.”

He was right; the drum kit on the recording really did sound almost real through the Mini Maggies, with the kind of tautness, snap, and definition that only very fine speaker systems possess. But what was even more important was that the Mini Maggies had proven their ability to win friends the old-fashioned way: namely, by making music sound so real that people can’t help but stop and listen. Isn’t that something we can all appreciate?”

You can read the full review here.