Maggies can intoxicate the listener in a special way, and the big projection of a panel really does good things for the recreation of a PA, imo. Granted, i'm back to "one good seat" with these, but its such a good seat. Presentation and projection is more important to me than purity of tone, so little nuances can be lived with when there are positive trade offs. Maggies offer that to me.
a medium sized pair driven by a nice amp (like the pathos) would be pretty sweet. The stupid Sony sub I bought w/the dual 10' drivers has actuallly broken into a pretty decent little sub, and I think it is fast enough to handle a pair of panels.
we'll see. I'm going to save up some scratch and see what my choices become in the 12-1500 range. Maybe some VR2s will materialize.