A window into the room the music was actually recorded in.
Don Saltzman of The Absolute Sound praised its "magical ability to transport listeners to a different space and time."
Nick Tate of Hi-Fi News called it "some sort of magic window into the world of music."
Some speakers reproduce a recording. The 20.7 is built to transport you into it — recreating the scope, size, and space of acoustic instruments and the venue they were recorded in with a sense of realism that's genuinely hard to find elsewhere at any price. It's a 3-way design pairing a true ribbon tweeter with quasi-ribbon midrange and bass panels, all working from the same dipole, boxless philosophy that defines every Magneplanar.
That size isn't incidental — it's the whole point. A speaker roughly the width and height of an NFL lineman gives the ribbon and quasi-ribbon drivers enough radiating area to move air the way a real instrument does, rather than compressing that scale down into something a conventional cabinet speaker could manage. It asks real things of you in return — plenty of amplifier power and a room with the space to let it breathe — but reviewers who've made that commitment consistently describe hearing detail and presence they didn't know was buried in familiar recordings.
If you're ready to give a speaker the power and space it actually needs, this is what you get back for the commitment.
