RTA 12B or C verses Magnepan MG IIC

geppy1
geppy1 Posts: 3,075
edited August 2011 in Vintage Speakers
I realize these are different but but has anyone owened the two at one time or another and what were your thoughts?? KG
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,420
    edited August 2011
    The RTA's will best the IIc's pretty easily for most music and reliability to boot. The IIc's are getting well past the point of needing to be rebuilt due to the wire coming delaminated from the mylar film. The only spot the Maggies will do better is in vocals and string instruents, but the age of them would have me run from them pretty quickly.
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  • geppy1
    geppy1 Posts: 3,075
    edited August 2011
    Thanks , It appears I threw an extra e into owned.
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  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    edited August 2011
    I've had the 12b's side by side with maggies ( mg 1- IMP) models and on vocals and classical the maggies were very nice but the 12b's just more accrate and versital . The maggies were just too limited and the bass was too vague for me. Nice speakers just not up to the polks.
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  • jon s
    jon s Posts: 905
    edited August 2011
    The RTA-12s will have better bass and treble... But the MG-IIcs will have better imaging and transients. On some music, the MGs will sound better, such as classical and jazz... On pop and rock, the Polks sound better.
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  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    edited August 2011
    I agree with jons mostly but my favorite listening music is acoustic jazz and the 12b's are wonderful for jazz of all kinds for that matter.
    Main Rig:
    Krell KAV 250a biamped to mid/highs
    Parasound HCA1500A biamped to lows
    Nakamichi EC100 Active xover
    MIT exp 1 ic's
    Perreaux SA33 class A preamp
    AQ kingcobra ic's
    OPPO 83 CDP
    Lehmann audio black cube SE phono pre, Audioquest phono wire (ITA1/1)
    Denon DP-1200 TT. AToc9ML MC cart.
    Monster HTS 3600 power conditioner
    ADS L1590/2 Biamped
    MIT exps2 speaker cable
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