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Magnepan 1.7 modified Floorstanding Loudspeakers For sale: Magnepan 1.7 speakers upgraded with premium Mundorf Gold in oil and Evo oil capacitors, meticulously matching the original specifications. These upgrades have dramatically enhanced their sound quality, delivering heightened transparency and clarity. Initially planning to create an external crossover box, I found the speakers' transformed sound so captivating after precise point-to-point soldering of the capacitors that further modifications became unnecessary. Additionally, I replaced the stock binding posts with high-quality gold-plat
Should you treat A$2,600 as a fair buy or a steal? Against your own comparable set, it sits almost exactly on the median of A$2,574, so this is fair value rather than a bargain or an ambitious ask. It’s also well inside the wide market spread, between the A$820 25th percentile and A$7,877 75th percentile, which means the price is very much in the normal run of recent AUD listings.
That makes the real question one of execution: are the mods sensible, documented, and reversible, and do the panels, socks, and condition justify paying at the top end of fair? Magnepan 1.7s are respected for their open, fast midrange and scale, so a clean pair can be a very rewarding listen if you have the space and amplification to suit. If the work was done neatly and the speakers are complete, this is a solid buy rather than a risk-heavy one.
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Founded in 1969 in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, by engineer Jim Winey, Magnepan emerged from his dissatisfaction with electrostatic speakers during his time at 3M. Seeking a superior alternative, Winey invented the Magneplanar—a thin-film magnetic driver that rivaled electrostats without their limitations. Bootstrapped with funds from friends and family, the family-owned company has remained American-made, now led by Winey's son Mark from a 50,000-square-foot facility, upholding over five decades of planar innovation.
Magnepan specializes exclusively in planar magnetic loudspeakers, from compact Mini Maggies to towering flagships like the 3.7i. These full-range or hybrid panels eschew traditional cones for quasi-ribbon and true-ribbon drivers, delivering expansive soundstages and lifelike transients. The lineup avoids amplifiers, turntables, DACs, headphones, or cables, focusing solely on speakers that demand high-current amplification to thrive.
Positioned as a high-end niche leader, Magnepan commands reverence among audiophiles for neutral voicing, room-filling dispersion, and value that outpaces competitors dollar-for-dollar. Handcrafted in the USA with domestic parts—"Made in America. Sold in China"—its panels offer unmatched transparency at premium prices, cementing a legacy as the pinnacle of planar magnetic reproduction for discerning listeners worldwide.
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