Does Magico have a "house sound", and if so, how would you describe it?
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No, you just like to stick up for your friends.
@PeterA I missed your question on what I feel Magico's inherent traits are, but don't feel the need to respond on this thread. In my speaker thread I posted on why I prefer YG to Magico in the sealed box arena when several people asked me to demo them.
Could you please send the link? That was a year long search/thread so it may be hard for me to find it. I asked you because you are participating in this thread.
Search Magico posted by Keithr in the thread. Forum has good search except for three letters or below
90 posts from Al would be quite a lot. I think he has substantial listening experience to speakers of this brand, specifically to Magico speakers in systems he knows well. It seems like many others who don't own Magico speakers are also commenting in this thread, including you. It seems many people have opinions about the brand having heard them in all sorts of contexts. I don't see anything wrong with people discussing this, though I personally rarely discuss brands that I don't own or have extensive experience with. I certainly don't render opinions about the sonics if I feel I don't have sufficient time with the brand.
Thank you Kedar. I found these two posts that did not mention his thoughts about cost:
1. "Thanks Peter, but I'm not a Magico fan. Have heard them numerous times."
2. Some other THE Show comments:
- I still am not into Magico speakers, but the best Magico pairing was on Philip's Gryphon (S5mk2) which was about as good as I've heard them sound. I thought the M2 on Burmester and Vac was underwhelming - the sound was completely dead in the first, and not enough current in the second despite better tonality. I truly believe Magico owners should hear YG Acoustics latest Hailey 2 and Sonja 2 for a more coherent and dynamic loudspeaker.
I find the comment about disappointing coherence and dynamics interesting, so thank you for that.
Al, I think you heard yesterday how dramatically a slight change to set up transformed the sound of a system with the Magico M Pro. IMO, that experience illustrates that point you make above.
Nonsense, Keith. I just happen to be constantly impressed with Magico speakers and together with Peter heard Ian's M Project again yesterday for a few hours. Some things Magico systems do better than my system, on others I prefer mine. Nothing is perfect, neither my own system nor any other system, Magico or not. Often though Magico speakers show me what is possible in a number of aspects, especially the M Project; not surprising given their all-out engineering effort.
If I were not constantly impressed to a high degree with Magico speakers, listening frequently to Peter's Q3 and Ian's M Project, I wouldn't care. I would simply not contribute to a thread like this one, friends or not.
Good points. Just look that at this moment we perhaps have more participation in this forum from manufacturers/dealers than from prospective buyers ...
IMHO this strict live music criteria is just a choice of a small number of people, as valid as any other criteria. In fact it is much less stringent that many other criteria, but being extremely subjective allows great debates. And I do not see any reason why it can't coexist with good service, trusting the local dealer and looks of the product.
Your reply is out of context, I did not say you can't have a bad Magico demo/setup, I am saying that people like Bonzo never heard a Magico they liked (even if they never even heard it). You will not change their minds, set up, good or bad, has nothing to do with it.
Why would you say that ? Ked changes his mind all the time, he is evolving !
That being said, he was never negative about the speakers when he reviewed systems with Magico.I meant that about any criteria we use, we can use it to say A is better than B. This does not help any manufacturer. And no, on the forum we will use criteria and we will rate, and we will call a lot of gear that doesn't meet the criteria as not good enough. If it scares some people off so be it. The manufacturers who don't meet the live music criteria are the ones most responsible for the degradation of audio, along with the people who pay up to buy their products
Why would you say that ? Ked changes his mind all the time, he is evolving !
No I am negative about them. And that's not evolving, as I am evolved past that, so I don't plan to revolve back
I was defending you ! I always consider you open minded, outspoken to the hilt, but open minded
