Magnepan LRS Loudspeaker

For decades now, Magnepan has been trying to find stylish ways to fit its large planar-magnetic loudspeakers into smaller listening rooms without overly compromising the quick, neutral, highly coherent, boxless presentation for which Maggie dipoles are justly famous. Generally speaking, the result has been a downsizing of Magnepan’s big panels (and of the thin-but-sturdy wooden frames in which they are ensconced). It hasn’t seemed to occur to anyone that making cloth-covered rectangles smaller does not make them any more attractive. No matter how many lovely little girls with bouquets of roses in their hands are photographed standing or sitting contentedly …