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Maggies and Talon Roc

Has anyone any listening experience with a Talon Roc subwoofer mated to a pair of Magnepan speakers? I need to get a sub for my Maggies and and the Talon seems to garner quite a bit of praise.

I just auditioned a pair of Vandersteen 2wq subwoofers mated to Magnepan 1.6s. Yes the sound was good as the musical foundation was complete. My only concern is that I could still detect a timbre difference between low bass and bass on about half of the CDs. Even though I could not locate the bass there was ever present the slightly different pitch as the bass notes climbed the scale. So the blending was good but not perfect. This may be the rule of the day with any subwoofer, I don't know.
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sean
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Nice post Mike. Much like you, i would second the comments that the sub might not have been optimally crossed and / or placed in the room. This is something that can take a LOT of trial and error if you are unfamiliar with the procedure. This is not to say that i think that the Vandy's are the worlds best subs, but that i do think that they are pretty solid performers. I would hate to see someone disregard a quality product at a fair price simply because they did not experiment quite as much as what was needed. Sean
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