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Ships fromPHOENIX, AZ, 85045
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ABSOLUTE SOUND'S REFERENCE FULL RANGE PLANAR!

ELEGANT BLACK ON BLACK ALUMINUM FINISH - the best-looking finish in my humble opinion! 

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Buy with confidence from a long-term audiophile with 23 years of perfect feedback.

One of the most highly reviewed speakers in the high-end audiophile industry

Excellent condition. Flawless and beautiful.

These speakers have ONLY BEEN USED AS REAR CHANNELS IN AN ALL MAGNEPAN 20.7 (2 PAIRS) & CCR (also for sale) MULTICHANNEL MUSIC SYSTEM.   

Never overdriven!

Selling only due to downsizing!

Original boxes are available along with CUSTOM WOODEN CRATE FOR SAFE SHIPMENT ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD!

The total weight for shipping the speakers with the heavy reinforced wooden crate comes to around 550 lbs!

The custom crate alone is worth around $700!

I have extensive experience shipping large planar speakers as I have had many, some even bigger & heavier in the past - check out my PROFILE PICTURE!

These WORLD-CLASS SPEAKERS deserve the AUDIOPHILE who will greatly appreciate the beautiful eclectic sound. 

https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles ...

The extraordinary Magnepan MG-20.7 are one of those rare, exciting, speakers that combine exquisite resolution and a wide, deep, and tall musical soundstage that is instantly and permanently addictive.

Audiophiles and Audio Critics praise the MG-20.7 as one of the best Loudspeakers ever! And with good reason... The $19,500 MSRP MG-20.7 provides the most exceptional value in audio. Period.

Magnepan's extraordinary 20.7 continues to win reviewer accolades as one of the world's best speakers at any price.

Sure, there is a very short list of extraordinarily expensive speakers that excel in performance running from $50,000, $100,000, to over $1,000,000. It's pretty crazy out there these days...


Yet it's hard to find one that outperforms all the MG-20.7 strengths!


https://magnepan.com/products/magnepan-20-7

RAVE REVIEWS FROM AUDIOPHILE MAGAZINES IN DIFFERENT COLOR FONTS BELOW:

https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/magnepan-207-loudspeaker-1/

Retail Price:    USD $19795.00


These Maggies' magical ability to transport listeners to a different space and time, and to there realistically recreate (with lifelike scope and size) the sound of acoustic instruments and the venue they were recorded in is extraordinary.  It almost goes without saying (since these are Magnepans), but the 20.7s are also incredibly good values, although you're going to have to bring a lot of power to this party, and you're going to need a good deal of room to house two speakers the size and width of a couple of NFL linebackers.  Don Saltzman- the absolute sound, 249

The Absolute Sound A Breakthrough in Full-Range Planar Music Reproduction:


Magnepan Magneplanar 20.7 loudspeaker | Hi-Fi News (hifinews.com)

Close Your Eyes...

Auditioned in Editor PM's media room with Constellation Taurus amplifiers, the 20.7s delivered a seamless and exceptional expanse of sound from top to bottom. Take ABBA's 'Eagle' [from The Album; Polydor 533 980-2] by way of example – few would ever call this compressed and heavily processed pop 'audiophile' fodder, yet the 20.7s seemed able to unwrap it, revealing all the goodies inside.
It was eerie to hear this song with a degree of transparency you don't get from conventional box speakers. Elements in the mix that are not always apparent were now in front of us, clear as day. Most startling was its treatment of voices – reminding us that ABBA comprised four very gifted people, including two fine female singers doing exquisite vocal harmonies. The girls almost became ghostly apparitions in the room, so spookily realistic was the rendition of their voices, shimmering with life

Back To Work

At the same time, this loudspeaker went to work on the backing instrumentalists too, that gliding synthesiser so beloved of the band had a really tangible quality, instead of sounding opaque and lacklustre. Percussion was clear to hear, and although not particularly strong or physically impactful, it was carried with great conviction. The lacerative sound of the strummed steel guitars was brilliantly conveyed, and bass guitar was taut and supple without overpowering the proceedings.

Switching to a completely different genre of music, the Magneplanar 20.7 still served up the same dish. 808 State's 'Ancodia' [from 90; ZTT Japan XECZ-1001-1002] is another mediocre recording, yet it was as if this speaker had an X-ray scanner that penetrated behind it. Hitherto unheard backing vocals rang out, and ones I had known before were so much better resolved here. I loved the thick, squelchy sound of the synthesisers and the shimmer on the hi-hats – the like of which I had never encountered before.

All well and good, but this 'Maggie' is arguably even more impressive in the way it maintains the 'timing' of massed instruments.

On the 808 State track, I was charmed by the way the cymbals on the right channel were playing off the tambourines on the left. Again, most speakers deliver a blur here, completely obscuring it.

Superb Soundstage

Similarly, Al Jarreau's cover of 'Summertime' [from Tenderness; Reprise WPCR-28174] – a rather louche jazz standard – gained new life.

Suddenly everything was super taut, tight and snappy, with ultra-fast leading edges to the bass guitar and hi-hat cymbal work. The thick licks of keyboard, brilliantly syncopated with the percussion, really hurried things along and proved the lynchpin of the song. Even the vocals took on a renewed purpose.

As you would expect from large panel speakers, their soundstaging was superb. Ryuichi Sakamoto's 'Theme From The Last Emperor' [from the soundtrack album; Virgin VJCP-32021] rendered the massed orchestral strings almost supernaturally large and three-dimensional. Things were wonderfully immersive – the two panels projecting a vast wall of sound turning the room into a kind of giant pair of headphones.

There's absolutely no sense of anything struggling to get out of a box. Rather, the Magneplanar 20.7 appears to be some sort of magic window into the world of music – very Through The Looking Glass!

The only issue here is the size of your listening room; stood one metre out from the boundary wall in a largish (for the UK) space this speaker sounded dreamy, but bigger spaces, and bigger amplifiers, will undoubtedly help deliver an even grander sound.

Hi-Fi News Verdict

Although not to everyone's taste, most music lovers will be beguiled by this exceptional loudspeaker.

The Magneplanar 20.7 avoids many problems of 'box' designs, at the expense of reduced sensitivity and some slight compression at very high levels. In truth, the biggest issue is whether you have a listening room or indeed a house big enough to accommodate it. There is nothing else that sounds quite the same.


Planar Speaker Asylum (audioasylum.com)

So much for the music lover; the audiophile in me always wished the Maggies had a tad more of the full-range ESL resolution and coherence I've always been so fond of. After my relatively short time with my new 20.7s, my verdict is, Wowie wow wow WOW!!!

Although the 20.7 is easy to drive electrically, its exceptionally low sensitivity requires a muscular amplifier if high SPLs are to be achieved.


Specifications 
    
Description    3-Way /True Ribbon Tweeter - Quasi-Ribbon Midrange and Bass
Freq. Resp.    25-40 kHz
Rec Power    Read Frequently Asked Questions
Sensitivity    86dB/500Hz /2.83v
Impedance    4 Ohm
Dimensions    29 x 79x 2.062

 

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