Quote Originally Posted by Ajani
The Maggies certainly sounded unique... but they just sounded totally wrong to me... Though I'm still perplexed, since I heard a pair of Final Sound 400i Electrostats and thought they sounded brilliant... I preferred them with the subwoofers off, as I much preferred the stat's bass to the boom from the subs... I've heard Martin Logan's previous generation of hybrid stats and for the most part liked them (minus the cone bass - which didn't sound all the well integrated to me)...

As I'm not a thunderous bass fanatic, planars should float my boat, but somehow those MG12s just did nothing right for me... I'd certainly audition another pair of Maggies in a different room just to see if my impressions might change... but nothing in the original room indicates that the room placement or that the All McIntosh gear being used to drive the Maggies were deficient..
You should not feel bad - I would not want a pair of Maggies either and I think I know what you're hearing. But the bottom line is people like em. That said like you I've had wildly different results with electrostats - to me the midrange and treble are just better than ribbon counterparts. And like you my biggest complaint about ML is the woofer integration - or IMO gross lack of integration. Listening to a speaker sound like a speaker is not my cup of tea. But they're sold at big box chain Future Shop - I always felt they were a style over substance product and charging at least 3 times what they were actually worth sonically.

So I keep coming back to the Quad 2905 which is a lot better than the 63. Trouble is at $14,000.00 I have heard better boxed speakers for under $7k that take up a lot less space and allow for 5 watt amps. Still if price is not a factor the 2905's do a lot right if rock at level is not a factor.