Can Magnepan survive Wendell Diller?

@william53b I think you are missing Wendell’s point about affordability. I believe what he is stating is that Magnepan could make more complex and higher quality speakers, but that is not where they want to go, as the price points that they would have to charge would not allow them to be affordable to a majority. He believes ( as do I guess the rest of the folks at the factory), that what they are making is good enough for the job that their followers are expecting. I would suspect that this would be hard to argue with, given their success.
I used to own Maggies, way back in the day, I owned them because as a newbie in the hobby I thought they were great sounding and their price was easy on my pocketbook. I still think this appeal works for a very large number of folks who really don’t want to fork over mega bucks to get good sound. IF you want a better speaker with better quality and parts and maybe better SQ, there are a lot of more expensive options to choose from, but I see no reason to dump on Wendell, or Magnepan.

Way too many armchair “speaker designers” in this thread. 

fwiw i find it hard to rag on a company that is backordered on some models for months. they’re doing something right.
i’ve  owned many expensive box speakers over a long period of time and find the .7’s with a perfectly integrated subwoofer to be sonically competitive with box speakers that I’ve heard in the 20k range. the key is the sub which must have a lot of setup flexibility and be of high quality. it’s going to cost more than the .7’s for sure. i use a b&w db1 to darn near perfection. 
The .7’s in my room with no sub is not workable for me. You have to get around the relatively low price of the maggie’s because they can and should be used with high quality components. 
I am amazed at my $5900( db1 and .7) speaker system. I look forward to every listening session. ymmv

There are so many cheap audiophiles, they would lose a lot of their customer base if they changed. I venture to guess a quarter of the community is playing the "giant killer" game as their big method for setting up rigs. I used to, and I used Magnepans.