{"id":245,"date":"2010-08-10T20:50:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T20:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=245"},"modified":"2010-08-10T20:50:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T20:50:41","slug":"maggies-come-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"Maggies come to stay!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/gfx\/blogpix\/Mags_3935.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[245]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mags_3935.jpg\" src=\"\/gfx\/blogpix\/Mags_3935-thumb.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hadn\u2019t heard flat-panel speakers before, but I\u2019ve heard folks speak well of them in some of the speaker forums. So when I saw a pair of American made Magneplanar MG-IIb speakers listed pretty cheaply in Craigslist, I decided I should go have a listen!<br \/>\nI took some Accoustic Alchemy, Aja, some Klezmer, James Taylor, and Sinatra\u2019s \u201cFor the Lonely\u201d. Listened for about an hour, I was completely intrigued, made an offer, and soon we were loading them into the CRV. An hour later I was setting them up in our living room, and we spent the rest of the evening listening to various Cds \u2026<br \/>\nWow. What a sense of space! Emma says its like swimming in the music \u2013 sound comes from the front and back of the panels \u2013 MUCH different than the sound-in-a-box of regular speakers \u2026<br \/>\nThese are older models from the mid-80s \u2013 they cut off a bit above 16k and don\u2019t play really low notes \u2013 so I\u2019ll probably tie in a subwoofer for low base \u2013 but \u2013 I am REALLY impressed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn\u2019t heard flat-panel speakers before, but I\u2019ve heard folks speak well of them in some of the speaker forums. So when I saw a pair of American made Magneplanar MG-IIb speakers listed pretty cheaply in Craigslist, I decided I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=245\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiophile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}