Magico A3 Review

UltraFast69 said:
Wouldn’t think twice about it assuming you are confident in handling the speakers, no pressure just use common sense to prevent damage - read what ever they give you for unpacking and set up - I used my 12 daughter and 14 year old son to help me uncrate my Alexias a few years back trying to sneak them in before my wife got home. Funny thing she just noticed them the other day, they are almost 4 years old.

Set up was 1 hour 15 minutes, and these came in three wooden crates screwed shut - I timed it, and placement was easy. My dealer came up after all the work spent 4 hours and his tweaking was not all that far off from what I did, your ears will tell you.

Plus getting engaged is the “Hobby” part of things


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You made your children complicit! :evil: :rofl:
 
My 20+ year old $1000 Definitive Technology BP10 are better than Giya G4. And compared to my Magico S1, Giya 4 doesn't even come remotely close. I heard G4 (series 1) with McIntosh electronics at a dealer showroom about 2 months ago and it was simply dreadful.
 
brodricj said:
My 20+ year old $1000 Definitive Technology BP10 are better than Giya G4. And compared to my Magico S1, Giya 4 doesn't even come remotely close. I heard G4 (series 1) with McIntosh electronics at a dealer showroom about 2 months ago and it was simply dreadful.
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A vivid speaker powered by McIntosh electronics ? If so , the issue is probably with the electronics and not the speakers. Vivid like magico is a low distortion speaker. Simply conveying the electronics connected to them.
 
imprezap2 said:
the 10K USD speaker for 18K GBP nowadays.
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M3 is 100K GBP. What I found odd about the UK/EU HiFi market, given the very high prices, was selling used gear into that market. I thought my Q3 was very competitively priced at $13K GBP pitched to the UK market but I didn't get a sniff of interest in 3 years.
 
My dealer has the M3's in his main rig now (+ TAD Reference 1 mkII), both fantastic speakers but very different.

I think I did have an email conversation with you a few years ago regarding the Q3's (ebay), my dealer had a pair of Q3's for sale at the time too, a bit older then yours but around the same price. A bit later I decided to go for the YG acoustics Hailey.
 
What I struggle to comprehend is the chasm between there being no interest in used Q3 at $13K in a market where M3 sells for 100K. Having owned both there isn't that much of a leap going from Q3 to M3 to justify the price gap.
 
I agree, I can not set myself in buying speakers costing more then my Lexus, for a long time I gave myself a 10K euro budget per piece of equipment to enjoy this hobby.
Have to admit I did let that budget go a bit the last few years.

Q3 is still a great speaker, in my mind the sweetspot in the Q range, but the M3 is a better speaker (but I can see where you come from with that price difference)
 
M3 is more aesthetically pleasing to my eye, so I will keep it. I have no upgrade path from M3 as M6 would be too large for my room. Plus, M6 is twice the price of M3 so that upgrade wouldn't make sense even if I had the space for it. All things considered, M3 fits the sweet spot in the whole M-series. I have an Esoteric Grandioso D1X on order which I suspect M3 would leverage better performance out of than Q3 could. I'm probably yet to discover how good M3 can sound. Again, I haven't seen or heard D1X so that purchase was another leap of faith. My M3, S-sub, D1X will be the only examples within 2000km+ from where I live. This level of gear is not available to demo, either in a show room or local private owner.
 
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