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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I'm in full agreement with all of the above posts. I've used a Roc with a pair of Khorus, with Peregrines, with Martin Logan Aerius, and with Newform Research R645's, and find that it integrates perfectly (if such a thing exists) with anything I've thrown at it. It's truly a magical, musical sub. I have an old pair of Maggie MG-1C's lying around (remember those guys?), and you've got me curious about whether I would notice any timbre differences with the Roc. Now if I could only find those Maggie "feet" which I've been looking around for!

I may be going out on a limb here, but I've also found that the Infinity Interlude series subs are amazingly quick and integrate well with ribbon/ESL/planer speakers. I've mated an Infinity IL100 sub (for about $250 new on Ubid) with Bohlender Graebener X1 and X3 ribbons in my finacee's system and was shocked at how seamless and transparent the presentation was with an Outlaw Audio 1050 receiver - we're not talking about a big dollar set-up by any means. Have a listen to an IL120 (with a 12' driver) at Circuit City (if you can block out all of the other noise in there!) and you just may be surprised.