I had magneplanar SMGas for a while (I have them in storage - I'll sell for
£150, downsized my room). Before that stacked quads. I think probably the
biggest difference with box speakers, apart from the rear radiation and
soundstage, is that there's no cabinet resonance. Remove the cabinet resonances
from box speakers and you might get something of the planar sound. This may be
why small 2 ways with stiffer boxes can have that 'clean' sound which in larger
enclosures you'd have to engineer in with sand, marble, concrete, corian and
all kinds of resonance-killing solutions. Once you hear the sound of the wooden
boxes, I think all hope of a clean sound is sunk.

=== Andy Evans ===
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