Magnepan 30.7 Panel Speakers

Magnepan's answer to "what if cost were no object at all?"

The Absolute Sound wrote that its "richness and realism of recorded music are raised to extraordinary levels."

Hi-Fi+ said it delivers sound competitive with "loudspeakers ranging from two to nearly ten times their price."

Awards: The Absolute Sound 2017 Overall Product of the Year; 2018 Editors' Choice

Every speaker line has a ceiling, and the 30.7 is Magnepan's — a four-panel, four-way ribbon/quasi-ribbon design built with zero compromises to see just how far the company's planar technology could actually go. Two full panels per side split the workload between bass/midbass and midrange/tweeter duties, giving each frequency range its own dedicated radiating surface instead of asking one panel to do everything.

The result, according to the reviewers who've spent real time with it, is genuinely category-defying: a coherent wave-launch, a vast and free-standing soundstage, and a level of inner detail and transient speed that makes conventional box speakers — even ones costing far more — sound comparatively boxed-in. Despite its imposing scale, the 30.7 includes adjustable midbass control specifically so it can be tamed for smaller rooms, meaning you don't need a mansion to make use of it, just genuine commitment to getting the setup right.

If you want to hear what happens when a speaker company builds with absolutely no ceiling on ambition, this is that speaker.