Magico M9

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Others gave him advice too. One suggested selling the speakers instead.

Peter,

I suggest you do not speak about my ML3. At that time I decided to keep silent in respect for the Lamm people, including DDK and Vladimir Lamm.

But yes, Ked was always against such pairing. I must say that it sounded much better than he can imagine.

 

[Lagonda]

Peter,

I suggest you do not speak about my ML3. At that time I decided to keep silent in respect for the Lamm people, including DDK and Vladimir Lamm.

But yes, Ked was always against such pairing. I must say that it sounded much better than he can imagine.

Vladimir is dead and David can take criticism ! I wish people were more honest about problems with distribution or reliability, we should protect/inform each other as audiophiles, not cover for the sellers/manufacturers ! I am annoyed no one spoke out about problems with Aesthetix, i would not have bought my Io Eclipse if i had the information i have now !

 

[microstrip]

Vladimir is dead and David can take criticism !

As far as I know Vladimir family and the Lamm people do their best to go on to keep the brand alive. And David is not participating in WBF anymore .

 

[Kingrex]

Yes, amplifiers become strident when we push them in clipping. In normal operation the ML3 is not strident.

I'm sure the ML3 is a fantastic sounding amp.

 

[Mike Lavigne]

i would absolutely own ML3's again. very special amplifier.

 

[christoph]

i would absolutely own ML3's again. very special amplifier.

Probably a match made in heaven with a pair of Trio G3 you obviously seem to like

 

[Mike Lavigne]

Probably a match made in heaven with a pair of Trio G3 you obviously seem to like

they are on my 'very' short list of lusted for speakers, if my journey ever goes down that road again.

 

[Kingrex]

they are on my 'very' short list of lusted for speakers, if my journey ever goes down that road again.

If you escape to a sunny warm state, you may end up with an AV setup in a living room. Magico A3.

 

[Mike Lavigne]

If you escape to a sunny warm state, you may end up with an AV setup in a living room. Magico A3.

in 2021 here locally i did really enjoy Magico S5 Mk2's with Q-subs at a local Audio Ultra audio show. i think with an MSB amplifier.

don't know the A3, but maybe it could be a fit under 'particular' future circumstances? before that 2021 experience, Magico had not ever been a consideration for me. never was able to connect with them.

i now use Revel speakers (Funk Audio Subs) in my Home Theater 9.3.6 Dolby Atmos surround system, not unlike Magico to some degree.

 

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I'm sure the ML3 is a fantastic sounding amp.

Yes, as many others.

 

[Kingrex]

@Mike Lavigne
I'm just joking around with you.

I know you would go for the S or M series!!!!

 

[Mike Lavigne]

@Mike Lavigne
I'm just joking around with you.

I know you would go for the S or M series!!!!

it's a Magico thread (who knew?) and i'm trying to be respectful. considered a snarky comment but thought better of it......for once.

 

[Blackmorec]

Just to mention.
We moved house from one with a specially modified and treated listening room to a regular 4 bedroom, 2 reception room UK build. Because my daughter was attending a local university we gave her the main en-suite bedroom and I temporarily installed my system in a spare bedroom, which I intended to extend to roughly 3 times the size. I honestly thought it wasn’t worth taking a system out of its boxes, but that room turned out to be the best room I’d ever had. It was small, which mandated a system for near field listening, it was lossy in the bass, so required no bass traps, it was quite reflective, so responded brilliantly to bags of diffusion, and it was almost perfectly symmetrical in that left and right sides were almost identical save for a door. . The best speakers I audioned in the room were a pair of Magico S1 MkIIs, closely followed by YG Carmel IIs (I preferred the Magico top end).
I had been using the system for about 3 years, constantly improving the network rather than the Hi-Fi components. At one point my network had 6 rails of Sean Jacob’s DC4 and Mini DC4 power supplies, which sounded great. I then upgraded all rails to DC4 ARC6 and the Innuos Statement to Next Gen (ARC6 components). At the time, if someone had blindfolded me and asked what I had upgraded, I’d have guessed that the S1’s had been replaced with M2’s. The bass became so extended, lively and physical and the treble so pure and extended that an upgrade to a different class of speaker was clearly the best explanation for such profound differences. The lesson i learned from this is that the ‘characteristics’ of loudspeakers is extremely dependent on the quality of what’s driving them. Now I know this sounds obvious, but until this instance I never dreamt that the dependence could be so profound in nature. So I can imagine that the sound of a pair of M9s can span everything from ‘utterly, unbelievably magical’ to ‘not really my cup of tea’ which of course means opinions about the speakers will likely vary by a similar degree.