# Set Up Magnepan Speakers—Thank You Paul **URL:** \ **Category:** How To\ **Created:** [October 6, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/set-up-magnepan-speakers-thank-you-paul/25554 "2021-10-06T23:46:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![NordicDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@NordicDave](https://forum.psaudio.com/u/NordicDave)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/set-up-magnepan-speakers-thank-you-paul/25554/6 "2021-12-21T18:32:35Z")
As a long time Maggie owner, the speakers are second to none IMHO especially given their price. Something many new Maggie owners don’t realize is the room is the speaker box. Room treatment will in most situations improve sound quality by greater than half again. I’m my smaller sized room it doubled all the positive Hifi attributes while eliminating the negative. > [@Room Treatments](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/room-treatments/25769): > > After a recent move, my new rectangular listening room was smaller and very bright lively space. Instead of a $1400 power cord I spent $1400 to have the room professionally analyzed and recommended room treatments added. After the first analysis I was asked “is the bass sucked out or lean between 70-90hz”? It was. Turns out the bass waves were cancelling out given the 8’ ceilings and room size. This I know because it could be heard. The results were astonishing! Unbelievable clean bass much … Untreated rooms which maybe bright, placing the tweeters inside helps a lot. Likewise tweeters on the outside greatly grows the width of the soundstage presentation. I’m this configuration sound will image beyond the right/left sides of the speakers; given a good amp and DAC. Maggie’s need to be sized to the room. I’ve seen too many people undersize their purchase saving money. Likewise some care is needed to not over purchase. Last comment: If buying new strongly consider the lighter color fabrics. The default black looks like 2001 Space Odyssey obelisks which many women find objectionable. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/set-up-magnepan-speakers-thank-you-paul/25554)._