Let other tech go nano. Magnepan’s MG 3.6 speakers are a veritable wall of sound. Each speaker stands nearly six feet tall and two feet wide—but less than two inches deep.
Magnepan, headquartered and still manufacturing in White Bear Lake, eschews traditional cone-shaped woofers and tweeters, relying instead on “Magneplanar” technology—a thin-film ribbon-shaped magnetic driver—developed by founder Jim Winey 40 years ago. It’s drawn high praise from home-audio and home-theater equipment reviewers, most recently the Audiophiliac blog on the cnet.com technology site, which chose the MG 3.6 as its 2008 Speaker of the Year in December, saying “the sheer believability of the sound can be, at first, a little jarring.”
Magnepan sells MG 3.6 speakers ($5,400 a pair) through retailers nationally, including Audio Perfection in Minneapolis. The company also sells some of its products directly from its White Bear Lake facilities (order at 800-474-1646 or magnepan.com), including its low-price offering, the MMGs at $599 a pair.
