magnepan 3.6/r  Speaker of the year: Magnepan 3.6/R  I've
reviewed a gazillion speakers, and I can't remember more than a
few dozen of them. They're just a string of big and little
boxes; some sounded really nice, most were merely OK, and
surprisingly few were truly awful.  Magnepan's speakers stand
out from the crowd first because they're so thin, the MG 3.6/R
is 1.5 inches thick, and standing 71 inches high, it's really
tall. But it was the sound that blew me away. It's an incredibly
clear, high-resolution sound, and sounds decidedly
unspeakerlike. That's why it's the Audiophiliac's Speaker of the
Year.  As I said in my Home Entertainment magazine review
"That's why the MG 3.6/R will sound like a revelation to first-
time listeners; the gap between the sound of real, live music
and recorded music feels a whole lot smaller. The speaker
projects a more full-bodied, three-dimensional soundstage than
any box can; correction, the MG 3.6/R's sound was bigger and
deeper than I've ever heard from a speaker retailing