Now I’ve never owned new Mags but I’d assume the physics are the same. Perhaps it is the glue loosening up, but I will attest - I have restrung quite a few tweeters and re-glued the bass panels on several sets of Mags and was severely disappointed with the results, but after a few weeks the bass opened up immensely. Not being a big subscriber to the ‘electrical’ break in theory - I have to say having refurbishing several Mags, the bass really does not open up at first.
It has positive effects, but which can alter tonality and coherence in the wrong direction if the speaker was designed as tilted for good reason. The same thing would happen if you’d put any conventional speaker upright that was tilted slightly backwards. The bigger ones sounded richer anyway, so the upright caused lighter tonality effect matched accordingly. Depending on the amplification, this could have also meant that this small speaker got a little to light in tonality. So at the disadvantage of loosing highs when listening while standing (to avoid this was the meaning of tilting this small version)… putting the speaker upright just like the bigger models, just resulted in the kind of focus those bigger models had. The visual effect of having them with transparent strings and the missing visual connection to the floor was also nice. The effect of hanging them from the ceiling also meant, no floor resonances anymore as well as a similar effect as the Isoacoustic feet have by compensating tiny speaker movements). I must say that the effect to me was less a surprise as logically mainly connected to the more direct radiation towards the listener by undoing the tilt (resulting in a more focused soundstage and more detailed, crisper, less rich tonality and therefore an impression of a slightly better controlled bass) as well as a higher positioning of instruments (result was a matter of taste and depending on the given perspective of the recordings). Even if it’s 25-30 years ago, I still remember the difference after I hung my SMGa straight from the ceiling and therefore undid the tilt as well as positioned them higher, just as the stand does.
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