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Well that looks pretty good - really good.
Wonder what it sounds like?
Nice photo. Four CH Precision M1 monoblocks driving them. Magico needs to trickle their new driver technology down to their M Series and S Series pronto. Right now, only the M9 and A5 have it.
Ken
That has to be a million dollar setup.
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Not sure about the looks, for a Magico I mean. It looks more like a B&O product imo. Personally knowing squat about magico or their design goals I'm truly no authority, but this doesn't look like an evolution of previous products to me.
I would prefer to hear this with four MSB M500 monos!
I wonder what they would sound like with four MSB M500s?
Mike, is it all for sale?
I listened to an S5, S7 comparison in that room. I bet whoever sets up the room gets a good workout.
I think Alon is a professional photographer. I saw his studio. It’s incredible.
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LOL, don’t forget to bring your Phaseone (I think), technical camera
Mono and Stereo: MAGICO M9
ALON WOLF PHOTOGRAPHY
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agreed, not to mention the angle of the photo highlights the 'wire mess' behind the racks. Regardless, I for one think the speakers are borderline 'fugly' .............flame suit on !
I don’t know Mike. It sure looks a lot like a fattened up YG Sonja.
It’s always hard to tell from a photo how big it actually is, would have to see it in person. I like the basic shape. And I am sure it will sound incredible. Notice that the tweeter is quite low, so if thats an indicator, it is a big one. I am sure small rooms and small wallets need not apply.
Its a serious build , plenty tech in the approach, but yet it’s Still a lot of money and speaker for a single point source tweeter ...
Interesting to see how it competes with the other Top tier products like the large MBL’s for eg ..
Yeah, judging from the speaker's size relative to the size of the racks, the M9 looks to be between 5'9" and 6' tall.
So, that would likely put the tweeter at or near ear level when seated. And I would agree it would need to be in quite a large (long from front to back) and fairly tall room and well away from the side & front walls, or there'd be all sorts of room mode problems from those big drivers.
Perfect opportunity to use a DOE to optimize placement of them...
Single point source tweeters are good; in fact, optimal. Multiple tweeters just make driver integration and front baffle design more complex.
From a systems engineering perspective, simpler solutions to achieve functionality are better than more complex ones. There is less possibility of interactions with other control factors (e.g,, the other drivers, front baffle, and cabinet), less susceptibility to noise factors (factors which move the speaker's response off-target and/or add variance, which the control factors then have to try to fix), and better reliability and durability.
In engineering, the point is not to use as much tech as possible to provide the optimal functional response, it's to use as little tech as possible to achieve the functional response. This makes systems simpler, more effective and efficient, allows them to be on-target with minimal variation in a wider variety of use- or environmental cases and less subject to the impact of noise factors, and gets them closer to the concept of "ideality" as described by Altschuler's TRIZ (theory of inventive problem-solving).
It also makes products more reliable and durable as there is less stuff to break and go wrong.
SPECIFICATIONS
Driver complement:
1.10-inch diamond coated Beryllium tweeter (x1)
6-inch Gen 8 Magico Nano-Tec cone with Aluminum honeycomb core (x1)
11-inch Gen 8 Magico Nano-Tec cones with Aluminum honeycomb core (x2)
15-inch Gen 8 Magico Nano-Tec cones with Aluminum honeycomb core (x2)
Sensitivity: 94 dB
Impedance: 4 ohms
Frequency response: 18 Hz – 50 kHz
Power handling: 20 W (min) to 2000 W (max)
Dimensions:
Loudspeaker: 80” H x 40” D x 20” W (203 x 102 x 51 cm)
Crossover: 8” H x 18” D x 20” W (20 x 46 x 51 cm)
Crossover power supply: 8” H x 18” D x 20” W (20 x 46 x 51 cm)
Weight:
Loudspeaker: 1000 pounds (454 kg) each
Crossover: 40 lbs. (18 kg)
Crossover power supply: 60 lbs. (27 kg)
Suggested US Retail Price: $750,000/pair
Ship date: Q4 2020
Yes single point source is simple and easier to do and thats my point , its too simple for such a SOTA attempt , multiple tweeters lower thd and have much better dynamic expression and recovery to keep up with the larger driver area supporting the other frequencies..
This is obvious to me when hearing the large MBL’s or other linesource type Speakers ..
Well, the M9 isn't a line source speaker. And there are other major speaker brands that have chosen single point tweeter designs for their SOTA flagships, e.g., Wilson, YG Acoustics, Rockport, Gryphon, Tidal, etc. I don't think their approaches are 'too simple' - just maybe not what appeals to you.
Complexity for the sake of complexity is not a wise nor effective philosophy for design or functionality. For anything. Especially for manufactured products that have to be kept in statistical control in Ops. All that increased complexity does is increase variance and occurence of failure modes, decrease reliability and durability, drive up COPQ, and decrease profit.
The simpler, the more a design can approach Altschuler's Principle of Ideality, the better.
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Last time I checked, any stills photograph is a "static" pic. But, I fully agree, Mike, that photographs that convey their scale and dimensions are important as part of the advertising portfolio of images. Some professional-quality lifestyle photographs would go a long way here...
Another duplicate post....sorry, gang. The website gremlins are acting up again.
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considering one direction sarasota?
credit is cheap currently if you change mind:)