Magico M3 and M6

This is the same with any product. Porsche releases new models all the time. That’s doesn’t mean the older models are junk. It’s up to you to decided what u want and how much u wanna spend. Why do you need the M3 now? U can wait and in a few years they will be phased out for half off bc a new model comes out. I’m happy with my s3 mk1 and not even worried about upgrading bc the mk2 doesn’t make the mk1 sound like crap.
 
drabbish said:
This is the same with any product. Porsche releases new models all the time. That’s doesn’t mean the older models are junk. It’s up to you to decided what u want and how much u wanna spend. Why do you need the M3 now? U can wait and in a few years they will be phased out for half off bc a new model comes out. I’m happy with my s3 mk1 and not even worried about upgrading bc the mk2 doesn’t make the mk1 sound like crap.
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Bingo. The S3 mk1 is a PERFECT example of a great sounding speaker that is still great.
 
Alpinist said:
Mike is right. Generally a five-year product cycle. That is an acceptable period of time, especially for a company on the cutting edge of research and development.

Ken
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I might be mistaken here, but wasn’t the S3 first introduced at CES 2014? And I have the S3 mk2 already half a year by now...

Maybe Mike can correct me if I got the dates wrong.


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Kuoppis said:
I might be mistaken here, but wasn’t the S3 first introduced at CES 2014? And I have the S3 mk2 already half a year by now...

Maybe Mike can correct me if I got the dates wrong.


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2013. So yes, in this case, 4 year cycle.
 
Kuoppis said:
I might be mistaken here, but wasn’t the S3 first introduced at CES 2014? And I have the S3 mk2 already half a year by now...

Maybe Mike can correct me if I got the dates wrong.


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Yes, you are right. The life cycle of the S3 was a little shorter. The S3 Mk2 intro may have been accelerated by all the new trickle down technology from the M-Pro and M3.

Ken
 
Mike said:
Kev - I respectfully don’t agree. I’ve looked at the dates, and Magico is at the most extreme examples, on a 5 year cycle. For example, the S5 mk1 was launched in 2011. The S5 mk2 was launched during the last month of 2015 (almost 2016). If you look at the Q3 being replaced by the M3, the cycle is 6 years, almost 7 years, with the Q3 launched in 2010 and the M3 in late 2016.

As one of the biggest high end speaker companies and having visited the factory and seen the sizable team of engineers myself, Magico is not content to rest on their laurels. The M3 for example, is so much more advanced than the Q3, most people swear they aren’t from the same company.

So, it may seem like their product life cycle is much shorter than it really is, because they are constantly driving forward and now have a speaker line up feathering no less than 10 models, across three lines (four if you include the Ultimate).

With the A series now launching, Magico is diving into another market, a much bigger market and this will be exciting to see it develop.
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Mike, I was referring to all models across the brand with the trickle down technology from one model to another. A model is brought out, say, in the M range, then an S range mkII is bought out with updated drivers from the M technology etc. Nothing wrong with this at all but a five yearly time frame, it is not. Good marketing though.
 
Milt said:
My understanding is that Magico will only have the new A3 at Axpona. However, the Chicago area dealer in Palatine, F1 Audio will have the M3s in their showroom from about February 7 through March 1. Peter M. from Magico will (tentatively) give a presentation about the speakers on the evening of March 1.
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Good to know. Hopefully my travel schedule will allow for a visit to checkout the M3’s as well as F1 Audio.
 
A fellow audiophile also bought the M3s. His past speakers were B&W 800D3, which he bought last year. He drives them with Dag Momentum M400 monos in a mid sized room (14'x20'). He said the improvement he got was 'across the board'. They sound fuller and more natural, with great resolution AND extremely smooth top end. He was affraid that the bass may be lacking in weight & slam (afterall, the M3 has three 7" woofers compraed compared to two 10" woofers in the 800D3), but it turned out not to be the case.
 
Elberoth said:
A fellow audiophile also bought the M3s. His past speakers were B&W 800D3, which he bought last year. He drives them with Dag Momentum M400 monos in a mid sized room (14'x20'). He said the improvement he got was 'across the board'. They sound fuller and more natural, with great resolution AND extremely smooth top end. He was affraid that the bass may be lacking in weight & slam (afterall, the M3 has three 7" woofers compraed compared to two 10" woofers in the 800D3), but it turned out not to be the case.
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I think Adam is referring to me. As it turns out, the bass was a little shy in the 30-50MHz range. This turned out to be an inescapable glitch caused by the geometry of my room. I added a pair of subwoofers and tweaked them to just fill that suck out. The room response is now very flat and I'm thrilled beyond words with the sound of my system.

Cincy
 
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