Every year product life cycles in the consumer marketplace grow ever shorter. On the audio side, the latest and greatest receivers become yesterday’s news faster than you can say “HDMI 1.4.” Speaker ...

It's been a good while since Magnepan International updated its audiophile-pleasing and critically-acclaimed Magneplanar 1.6 speakers and the new model marks a technology departure for the company.

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Although limited in loudness and deep bass, its sound quality has fabulous neutrality, even tonality, low coloration and magnificent freedom from boxiness. It's great with acoustic and classical ...

Magnepan has finally, after 12 years, improved its Magneplanar 1.6 speaker, the best sub-$2,000 speaker I'd heard in 2008. Here's hoping the new Magneplanar 1.7 sounds even better. Ex-movie theater ...