New Magico speakers arriving 04/2015!

a.wayne said:
Thanks ....... now off for a search ... :)
Click to expand...

The Satie is on ePay for $100. Relatively rare EMI. The SuperPercussion is OOP but they occasionally pop up for around $50. The Neil Young can be had from Chad, MD or ED.
OJC of Art Farmer are around but they tend to be in the dry side. I have a middle yellow label pressing that is good but I know what is missing compared to the original black label Contemporary issue.but never seen a black label for sale so make do with what I have.
 
I'm not sure we can rationalize just how bad the Q7 Mk2's sounded at Axpona. If we say amps, then AESTHETIX gets the bum wrap. If we say cables, then it's poor Joe Kubala. If we say source, then ClearAudio's Statement doesn't get its just deserts. Sure, we can say room, but the Sonus Faber Liliums were on the same floor, in the same size and same SHAPE room. So what we are left with is the equipment and since the speakers were carrying the message, they are first to get shot.

If I had to GUESS - I would say that for those who had come from hearing the Lilium/ARC room, the Magico room was a major let down.

I look forward to hearing the Q7 mk2's at a dealer, another show and maybe, even in someone's home.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Anyway, wasn't this thread about the new S7's? Let's get back to that. Axpona's over, Munich is next! S7 gets unveiled at Munich, along with other great new stuff. Exciting times ahead.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
a.wayne said:
There are more than a few over the decades, everyone of them had their "time" , these things come in cycles, 10 yrs sounds about right, I might also add, the stage for the mini-2 , was actually set by the Sonus Faber Electa Amator., before that , Wilson Watt..



Regards...
Click to expand...

Thanks Wayne, but my main point is to acknowledge just how far Magico, as a new business, has come in 10 years. Everyone has an opinion about the brand as seen on every forum on the net. Some good some not, but the growth of that company is impressive.

This is a thread about a Magico speaker and it has veered in a completely different direction. I was just trying to steer it back toward Magico.
 
Mike said:
I'm not sure we can rationalize just how bad the Q7 Mk2's sounded at Axpona. If we say amps, then AESTHETIX gets the bum wrap. If we say cables, then it's poor Joe Kubala. If we say source, then ClearAudio's Statement doesn't get its just deserts. Sure, we can say room, but the Sonus Faber Liliums were on the same floor, in the same size and same SHAPE room. So what we are left with is the equipment and since the speakers were carrying the message, they are first to get shot.

If I had to GUESS - I would say that for those who had come from hearing the Lilium/ARC room, the Magico room was a major let down.

I look forward to hearing the Q7 mk2's at a dealer, another show and maybe, even in someone's home.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

+1. Would never handicap a component from just a show audition. Will give credit if it sounds good, but won't make a buy/not buy decision just because of a show.

Goodwin's should be getting their Q7 mkIIs soon I believe.
 
PeterA said:
Thanks Wayne, but my main point is to acknowledge just how far Magico, as a new business, has come in 10 years. Everyone has an opinion about the brand as seen on every forum on the net. Some good some not, but the growth of that company is impressive.

This is a thread about a Magico speaker and it has veered in a completely different direction. I was just trying to steer it back toward Magico.
Click to expand...

OK,

Magico is a serious speaker company, not sure anyone disputed that , i guess this all got started after the reference was made about them being the only high tech speaker Company and everyone else was salad


:D
 
Mike said:
Now that's a great place to hear them. Let me know when you're going Allen and I will join you.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

Do you have room for one more?? I'd love to hear the Q7 mkIIs.

Ken
 
Mike said:
Now that's a great place to hear them. Let me know when you're going Allen and I will join you.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

Mike/Allen...let me know if you make it to Goodwins to hear the Q7 mkIIs (or whatever else you come to listen to :D), I would love to join :thumbsup:
 
cmalak said:
Mike/Allen...let me know if you make it to Goodwins to hear the Q7 mkIIs (or whatever else you come to listen to :D), I would love to join :thumbsup:
Click to expand...

Cyril,

We must have been on the same wavelength...LOL!

Ken
 
Mike said:
Now that's a great place to hear them. Let me know when you're going Allen and I will join you.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Click to expand...

Alpinist said:
Do you have room for one more?? I'd love to hear the Q7 mkIIs.

Ken
Click to expand...

cmalak said:
Mike/Allen...let me know if you make it to Goodwins to hear the Q7 mkIIs (or whatever else you come to listen to :D), I would love to join :thumbsup:
Click to expand...

Sounds like a plan! Will be a fun trip!
 
I'd love to hear them also!

I've never had the chance to listen to Q7s in any version other than show conditions. It would be great. :)
 
You guys should contact Magico, and let them know you want to hear the Q7s all day in the Magico listening room. I'm sure there are enough big spenders in the group to make that happen. :)

I wouldn't mind going there myself for fun versus business.
 
Mike said:
Looks like we will never agree on this topic, and that's ok. Calling the tonality and richness wood gives, "distortion" is proof again you are all left brain in this matter - and that's ok. I speak of emotion, you speak of science. I'll take my goosebumps over white papers and marketing BS any day.
Click to expand...

I think there are too many generalizations on this thread. A speaker is a whole lot of things, not just a cabinet material. An example is older Wilson speakers (W/P 6) that may have had the most inert cabinets on earth at the time, but were bright as hell because of a ringing tweeter (to me). I remember being told in 2000 at a famous dealer that this was real detail and my ears needed to adjust to it (LOL).

In Magico speaker-land, they can exhibit a rising upper midrange/treble (see Q5 measurements) that to some is wonderful detail/transparency and to others is ascetic (see caesar's long lasting WBF diatribe on the subject or JV's latest on "bright" beryllium tweets compared with Raidho). Honestly, this is coloration by a different name. It appears Magico is steering away from this in more recent efforts (M-Pro and Q7MK2). Wilson changed his speaker philosophy after working with the Vienna Phil too. So things change and oftentimes we as consumers benefit.

While a Sonus Faber may be voiced with resonance, it might outperform a speaker with a bright top end in a better enclosure or one with a more complicated crossover. It might also add midrange congestion due to resonance. Whether that is right? That's up to the listener and why we have so many different choices. Hard to say what's audible across the board or how much resonance is ok to live with. Or which coloration one audiophile prefers.

I've said this before, but speaker selection is an exercise in priorities. For some tone is everything- for others, detail or resolution- for still others, dynamics or soundstage. I haven't seen a speaker that does everything at a 10/10 level. Every speaker has flaws. Therefore its up to the listener to figure out what he/she values the most and go in that direction.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top