Schiit Audio co-founder Jason’s surprise reaction to Magnepans that have bass! (No, not the LRS+) 

Hey everyone, this is not a description video of what the Magnepan woofers are or do, or why we are demonstrating that it can play higher tones. This video is to show the reactions of another audiophile equipment manufacturer to the woofers, and his first time meeting Wendell of Magnepan. Further details on the woofers are mentioned in a separate video- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4s9BqABrRv4.html

This was great. So nice to see that spirit of mutual admiration between Jason and Wendell. Kudos to you for introducing them, Cynthia!

Great work Cynthia! Thank you for keeping us up to date on this important technology.

Wow, Jason's reaction says it all, the man can't believe what he's witnessing and he is pleased with it. I think I want this speaker system 🤣. Thank you very much TAB, how have I not found you for so long.

👋🏼Mrs Audio Belle, 😮!!! The audio was soooo impressive, I’m shocked too, can’t imagine how they sound in person 🙌🏼…. Thnx for sharing & I’ve really been enjoying your recent videos 🤙🏼

Thank you for bringing together the masters of sound!

Bravo Audio Belle! Those are some extraordinary transducers and that is a room full of good audio souls

We need more young people in this hobby

Thanks for this video. Brilliant idea

Thanks for sharing this. This feels like a very important development. Can’t wait to hear it firsthand!

This presentation was awesome!! I actually attended the event and heard these with 3 others. All of us were looking at each other with that same look on our faces “no freaking way!” These subs were amazingly!!

Good stuff, I want to see more of this.

Can’t wait the bass speaker, magnipans come out. Nice work Wendel

Holy Schiit, get this to the market already!

Wow! Amazing range of tones for only a sub. Incredible.

This is iconic and outstanding 👍🏾🔥🔥😊

Nice vid 👍. Btw, the track with the drums is Hok-man Yim: Poem of Chinese Drum for anyone interested. Sounds really good as an audiophile test track.

Great To see!

Always been fascinated by flat panel speakers. Have quads myself

The algorithm has blessed me today.

The classical piece is Rimsky-Korsakov, Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden) - Dance of the Tumblers, from the cd "Exotic Dances From The Opera" with Eiji Oue, Minnesota Orchestra, 1996

Oh my! Cat’s outta the bag now. Those woofers really are amazing.

Always wanted a pair of LRS speakers, but I’m afraid my cats would enjoy them as well

Nice!

I can only just imagine what those woofers and LRS can do if combined with an amp like the MC40x series from McIntosh (with autoformers) and a copy of the Reiner Respigi Pine and Fountains of Rome !!

Amazing!

Production when, Wendell? 🙏 Need a pair sooo much, please & and thank u. Been waiting 15-20 years for production dipole subwoofers from Magnepan 😭

Wow, the first run of music ... or drums...was not nearly as effective as the second. The second was incredible! I do understand that the first had some odd high notes or "clicks" to show the speakers range, but WOW.... the second was huge even through my phone running through the car stereo! Wonderful symphony 🥰

It would’ve been nice to see some pictures of the woofers. I have no idea what they look like. We only see the LRS plus

Fantastic Tchaikowsky

Great. What's the reference of this kodo record ?

That was awesome! Jason, is that why you guys don’t do speakers?

Have to admit that was very good. It’s also nice to see Jason from That’s some good 💩 Audio 😂which I support. Have a Blessed Day.

So, what _exactly_ is the product providing bass? It’d be helpful to provide that info, because from this,demo, I have virtually no clue.

I used to be a real PS Audio head, now I'm a total Schiit head

So, the classic piece that starts at 8:40...was that WITH the LRS's added, or not? --Also, the camera person should have gone back there and showed a close-up view of the woofers.

Great sounding and great selection on music too, do you know what is the name of the music played starting on minute 5:38 ?

Took me a while to realise these are LRS sized panels used as woofers (aren't they?) & rolled off at a high 10'Khz for awoofer, (it's almost full range for a man of my age) When the LRS came out, i heard 3 guys on a tube vid talk about it's sound & I wrote a comment to that Canadian hi-fi dealers tube vid as they they had interviewed Wendell. My comment asked them "why doesn't Magnepan make a same sized single pannel pair rolled off at circa' 300 or 350'Hz to stand next to the LRS's & add an extra 3'db in that range, the bass & richness zone' If I understood this vid correctly. Don't know why 1 guy said he 'thought it was the LRS playing' if he knew what was going on & I don't know why Wendel answered by leaning over & nodding towards the amps saying "no, you can see they're not turned on" ...because there was only 1 pair there, that still confuses me, because where were the LRS's if the only single pair I saw were the woofers, because Wendell could then have just said "The LRS"s aren't even here instead of pointing to the switched off LRS amp. Or maybe I got it all wrong & the woofers are invisible or behind that curtain

cool channel so suscribed.

The paradox for Schiit is that those dipole woofers are driven by Class-D amps and a evidently need their input signal digitized if a DSP is involved. Where does that put Schiit's analog signal path in the end ? To drive the LRS I guess, but judging by the fact there were off during (at least the first part) of the demo, and no one had realized ; there's a... situation here.

Hi, Somebody have used the LRS with a McIntosh Amplifier like mc2155?

Lovely

What speakers are they? Is it a new product

What amplifier was used?

Girl, you are the bomb! 💥💫😆

May I suggest a low cut filter at 100hz to make the audio sound less muffled… maybe add some highs, mids…

Is that dual Aegirs running in mono into the maggies?

Any idea as to IF or WHEN the Magnepan woofers would be available?

So will these be sold as a separate subwoofer or will this woofer be part of a new magnepan full range speaker?

So what exactly are we listening to?

Did he shared when he’ll be introducing them to the market and price point? Thanks

When will the LRS+ be out/released/available? Umm yeah I'm interested lol.

Having owned multiple Magnepan’s, and currently own two pairs… I have no idea what’s going on in this video. It’s confusing and I want to understand.

I'm thoroughly confused: Are the two speakers in the room the LRS+ or are they the new woofer? Or are they both? Or are the LRS+ silent displays and the woofer is elsewhere in the room?

I want one

I’m so confused, I need to know more?

Yes, exciting new products. How about sending stock of EXISTING products to your "official" resellers in the UK? That would be great after 2 years.

does the schiit have a project to make ... speakers, perhaps?

Where are the subs? Built-in!!

isn' there too much echo in the room? how can you demonstrate speakers there?

"Taiko" is the Japanese term you were going for. Koto is a stringed instrument.

Magnepans are Top 10

How low do they go?

so where was the subwoofer?

There's a KEF B139 hidden in there...😅🤪

I am slightly confused - these are subwoofers, and yet they are playing up to about 10kHz? How do they integrate with the main speakers if they play up that high? Or, is the DSP set up differently when they are used as subs, with the main speakers?

Cynthia, as you can tell from many of the comments, it is very important to tell listeners (viewers) what the system is doing. I suggest that next time you say, for example, “We are listening to a cd of Kodo….(etc) through an Emotiva xxx preamp’s balanced outputs to Schiit Vidar amps run as monoblocks. Each drives a Magnepan dipole woofer in a tower array. The Vidars output 400 watts into 8 ohms in this way.” I am still guessing at this point. I still don’t know which woofers we were listening to! The LRS has a woofer panel and a tweeter panel. Were there separate woofer enclosures along the wall? Were they run under their own power or by the Vidars? If the latter, why were the Vidars in the middle instead of by each speaker? Were the Vidars vertically biamped instead of run as balanced monoblocks? The answers actually matter a lot. Still, the news is important, and thanks from lassoing Jason and putting him through testing hell, it’s fun to watch! 😃

The room isn't optimal, is it?

8 months later.

Wooh-fur. Lol

To me the bass drum from the orchestra sounds blurred and ill defined compared to what i'm used to from my full range electrostatics playing a Telarc LP.

sounds exactly the same as the 35 year old speakers i got now. What are my chances of getting the guy in Toronto, that's had these in stock for years, to stop doubling the price every 18 months??

Sounds great with ear plugs 😂😂😂😂

It didn't sound good to me. I'm wondering if the microphone is a bit rubbish.

Demoed with a Schiit Freya S preamp, to the guy who designed it.

soooooo that schiit can run Magnepans ??

Probably had a 10 giga watt amplifier

Great video. Too secretive. It seems these subwoofers offer double bass and midbass. They may not measure as well that way but appear to sound good. You can not tell if the LRS are on because the material are drums. The fact that so little information is given makes me think one could mimic this setup.

I do not understand.. 1. All agree to that LRS needs a subwoofer 2. The demo guy say the subwoofer goes to 10 000 Hz And it is no point to run them WITH the LRS because of that reason. Then he tells that he needs to roll off the subwoofer lower to use it with the LRS.. So there was no point with this demonstration. When the point were to that the subwoofer helps the LRS to play full range. And that were not demonstrated. So nobody knows how the subwoofers blend with LRS. Why do this? If they set up the subwoofers and made a cross over where the LRS naturally roll off in the bass. Then it is just to play them all and engage and disengage the subwoofers.. That is the real test and how they're going to be used! The LRS do not need help to play frequencies up to 10 000 Hz.. just wasted time for all that is involved. And who is helped from him that he played the subwoofers and thought 2-3 times he were listening to the LRS.. ..waste of time if not they are trying to sell the subwoofer as product without any other drivers.. The real reason why that might not been done like it should been done as in the real world use case is that then the guy need to measure that room in the different listing positions with the positions the subwoofers has. Plus put in delays/alignment with the mains/LRS. And on top of that choose what crossover slopes, types and at what frequency.. And load all that into the DSP... Had he time and knowledge to do that a proper demonstration. Apperently not. I know the stuff and what knowledge level is required. When I exactly use magnapans with two 18" open baffle hooked up to a DSP that are calibrated with delays, crossover for example.

I love it when people who drink just do it with class to handle life's stupidity and can admit wow ..ok I didn't know every.....thing

Nobody can just lusten. Everyone has to film everything. Even old ladies.

If I was running the Schiit company I would change the name to "Schijt" with the Dutch pronunciation sounding like "Shite".

Pay no attention to the black boxs behind the flowers / man

Why not try to make Magnapans specifacally for bass

Zero room treatment, sub optimal seating placement, early reflections with phase correlation issues and these folks want to talk critically about the 'sound' of these. They aren't hearing the speakers, they are hearing the room. Food for thought.

Man. But I would cringe if anyone zoomed in on my face and reactions with a camera,and then uploaded the video on to U tube. I would be demanding that it be removed from the net.

Now play a busy track on them. They can’t do that well.

1.7 still rull

It'll take Wendell about 5 more years to get these out 🤣🤣🤣 and of course he will tell you nothing about the "technology" of it 🙄

Schiit Audio, really?

No one seems impressed,come to my house if you want to be impressed

Did you seriously just make a video about a product without ever showing it? 🤨

Magnepan and low end......nah....

Really, out of all the names in the English language you could not come up with a better name than schit ? What is wrong with people ? I am sure I will be running out and buying your product.

You gotta learn to say woofer right, its not wooo-fer.

With all due respect, these are NOT Magnepans with Bass, they are Magnepans with Subwoofers. Something us Maggie fans have been doing for 15 years. It's not "all new technology" lol as Wendell says. Well perhaps DSP is "all new" for Wendell. FINALLY Magnepan has embraced the inevitable. The dynamic driver. We brought them there by flipping the users that heard our rigs with subs. I've been preaching for years Magnepan is a mid/high panel. Sure it will DO bass, but only in a non dynamic way. Shiit guy thinks it's impossible to integrate a dynamic driver with a dipole panel. Clearly he's never tried. I do it WITHOUT DSP even. And I teach how to do it as well. Magnepan is so stuck in its old ways it takes this long to add something as rudimentary as a dynamic driver to the mix. Something Martin Logan, Wisdom Audio, Apogee, Bob Carver, and others were combining in the 80s... I get the video is on reactions.. it's just kind of funny these are new reactions to old tech. I'm glad the "movers and shakers" of business are coming to functional audio realizations !! Kudos!! Thanks for your video !!