Magnepan 1.7i Speakers
Magnepan 1.7i Speakers
Magnepan 1.7i Speakers
Magnepan

1.7i Planar Magnetic Speakers

1.7i is a planar magnetic panel speaker from highly regarded American manufacturer Magnepan.

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Description

The 1.7i is an updated version of the popular 1.7 which was a departure from Magnepan’s 41-year history of using planar magnetic drivers for the bass or lower midrange. The use of quasi ribbon technology down into the lower midrange and bass will provide a new level of coherence.

What is a quasi-ribbon? The quasi ribbon driver is a deviation from the true ribbon design. A very thin film backing is used to hold the delicate ribbons in place. One of the advantages of quasi ribbon drivers is extremely wide frequency band width and high power handling. The result in the 1.7 is low distortion and seamless ribbon clarity–a sound so clear and effortless that it has changed the thinking of thousands of audiophiles about planar speakers.

The 1.7i also boasts a quasi ribbon super tweeter with a wider “sweet spot,” and one step closer to the delicacy and detail of Magnepan’s true ribbon design.

The 1.7i was subjected to “blind testing” by a panel of audiophiles and casual listeners. In addition to better sound, there is one more important improvement that you can test for yourself. If you have the opportunity to hear the 1.7i, try this experiment—Ask us to place the speakers with the tweeters on the outside. Note how the imaging remains remarkably stable when seated far off-axis. With some speakers it is necessary to sit in the “sweet spot” for good imaging. If you are too far out of the sweet spot, you will hear predominately one speaker. With the tweeters on the outside, the 1.7 has the widest sweet spot of any of any previous Maggies. If you prefer to sit only in the “sweet spot”, try the tweeters on the inside.

The 1.7i is not big from an acoustical standpoint. However, the bass driver is big. If Magnepan sold the portion of the speaker from 200 Hz up, you could put it in the average apartment. Yes, it is tall, but very narrow. The ideal speaker would be a massless line-source that would look like a pole–from the floor to the ceiling. The 1.7i comes as close to that ideal as is possible with real-world devices.

The 1.7i bass driver is the reason it is big. Magnepan say sorry, but that is what it takes to have high definition bass.

Description
3-Way, Full-Range, Quasi-Ribbon

Freq. Resp.
40-24 kHz

Sensitivity
86dB/500Hz /2.83v

Impedance
4 Ohm

Dimensions
48.26 x 165 x 5cm