Home Theater for Music Lovers

If you are a typical Magneplanar customer, you listen to music more than watch movies. The trend with many of our customers is to add a center channel and surround speakers for a dual-purpose system. That makes a lot of sense, both for financial and space considerations. The same dollars invested in a dual-purpose system will outperform two separate systems. Everyone in the family "wins" with a high performance dual-purpose system. Many of the "audiophiles of the family" have figured out that a high performance Maggie home theater system gives them the opportunity to have better 2 channel equipment.

"Home Theater Speakers" is a term for speakers which have been designed for extremely wide dynamic range and dispersion characteristics thought to enhance the home theater experience. Reproducing the dynamic range of gun shots and car crashes, etc. has pushed speaker development in directions which do not enhance music reproduction. What has been lost along the way is resolution.

The typical high efficiency "home theater" speaker can not compete with an audiophile grade speaker for music reproduction. Detail and resolution are typically sacrificed in the pursuit of extremely high sound pressure levels. But, how many of us actually watch movies at levels that can achieved by "home theater" speakers? Don't let a loud "action" movie demo influence your buying decision. These demos are impressive and are effective selling tools for "home theater" speakers. "Action" scenes are exciting, but there is more to home theater sound than dynamic range. For the majority of the time, the loudness is at reasonable levels. We think you will find that high resolution wins out over high sound pressure levels.

How to get the most out of your Maggie home theater

The system design and setup of a home theater system is more complicated than a 2-channel, music system. Since the center channel speaker does approximately 60% of the "heavy lifting" for movies, getting the center channel done right is the key to a good home theater system. In addition, the problem is usually complicated by the available space, or lack of space, for the center channel speaker. Rooms and installations vary greatly which makes it impractical to give a set of guidelines or instructions. Call our 800 number and we will be glad to help.