Spent a few hours at AXPONA today. It was nice to finally meet Mike. As I mentioned to him, I heard Magico's for the first time today. The S3 Mark II's were among the best sound I heard today. The S1's were great but the S3's just took the entire soundstage up a few notches.
I also really enjoyed the Wilson Benesch Discovery II's and the Gamut RS3i monitors, each of which retail north of $20,000. Andrew Jones' new Elac monitors, the Adante's, also sounded phenomenal, particularly for the price.
Finally, I enjoyed meeting Ken Stevens of Convergent Audio. His tube amps looked fabulous!