Ack:
"From this very M6 TAS review published just today http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/magico-m6/?page=4 - a speaker with no shortcomings
"Best of all, the M6 simply doesn’t have any shortcomings that one must consciously or unconsciously listen past."
Ack: "And this is why I started this thread."
You started the thread, by your own admission, not because of the cover photo, it seems, but because of this one quote. And I think that quote, combined with Harley's preface in which he quotes Valin, seems to make his point about his experience of listening to this speaker.
You are quite wrong, I am afraid Peter. I started the thread BEFORE the review became public, by a whole day actually. It was extremely easy to predict what would eventually be said in the review. I started the thread exactly because Magico jumped the gun in a rather sloppy way to scan that magazine cover, ahead of the review becoming public.
And my prediction not only came true, it could not have been better described than that one sentence: "Best of all, the M6 simply doesn’t have any shortcomings that one must consciously or unconsciously listen past."
This is how predictable the TAS/Magico relationship has become over the years. The fiasco I was talking about...