S5s in for audition

My dealer spoke with Magico regarding my insistence that my speakers sounded different that his demo pair I had run for several months. They would not confirm that there had been a change in the current S5s from those of close to two years ago but they did not deny the possibility of hearing a difference. They advised my guy to sell his traveling demo pair and pick up another pair of S5s. Infer what you will from that.

What I am getting, now that they're closer to broken in, is fabulous space, imaging and, now, a much fuller sound.

I've got the Synergistic Galileo LE cables in for audition as well. I'll save my thoughts on these for another thread, but, I'm pretty sure I'm in trouble.
 
Great to hear Mike! The S5's are fabulous speakers.


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mdkim said:
My dealer spoke with Magico regarding my insistence that my speakers sounded different that his demo pair I had run for several months. They would not confirm that there had been a change in the current S5s from those of close to two years ago but they did not deny the possibility of hearing a difference. They advised my guy to sell his traveling demo pair and pick up another pair of S5s. Infer what you will from that.
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Any idea how old are the demo S5s?
 
Michael, curious, how were the demo pair compared to your S5s now that you have some decent hours on them?

Either way, glad to gear your enjoying your S5s now.:audiophile:
 
Allen:

The "older" demo pair had less air than what I am currently hearing. The current pair has more depth, better imaging and more bass texture. The demo pair had more "bloom" and/or
"warmth."
 
Myles B. Astor said:
Magico S5 Loudspeakers
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Great review. I think you captured the essence of this amazing speaker. I am listening to Doobie Brothers - Livin On the Fault Line, via my spiral groove SG 1.1 and Goldfinger statement and the Magico s5 speakers leave nothing on the table while remaining positively musical.

I found your comments on tube amps interesting. I find the Constellation amp brings the most to the party, as if they were made to go together, but my air tight amp brings a spacious and beautiful midrange that can't be beat. And I tried constellation preamp but found Magicos sound best with tube preamps regardless of type of amplification.

I tried your tweak on sitting ears between midrange and tweeter. It brought more resolution but in my room it took away some weight and presence.

You are very right about using laser to get speaker distance and angles just right - they aren't fussy speakers but do pay honor for being locked in for perfect placement.

Finally I appreciate your comparison to panels and electrostatic speakers. My last speakers were magenpans. Magico are only box speakers that deliver the unboxy speed and space and coherency I got from the Maggies but with no grain and a lot more detail and dynamics.

Cheers.

PS. The S5 are the longest standing component in my system. No urge ever to look at anything else.
 
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By the way these gizmos added stage depth and air without subtracting any goodness.
 
Darrin,

How do you like the Audience cables? I'm thinking about them myself.
 
Joe,I standardized on them awhile back from power cords to interconnects. They are even across the spectrum, keep the life and oxygen in the mix (don't suck out or flatten dynamics, etc) and have a great articulation on bass and harmonics/texture.

I have recently found 2 other cables I like as much: Chord Sarum Tuned Aray (is pricey though) and Jena Labs. If I had to do it over again I would like to do a cable shoot out between all jena labs and audience. Audience is so smartly priced it is hard to beat for value. And it does nothing wrong and so many things right. And it isn't thick and unwieldy.
 
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