All New Magico A5 Loudspeakers // Biggest "BANG" For Your BUCK On The Market ?!

With the right amp these speakers really sing

 All new LFD NCSE HR Integrated amp ! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5rafGKgnrM

I've heard both the Magico A3 and the A5's.  Both speakers sound great to me.  Though I wouldn't trade my incredible Revel Salon 2 speakers for either pair.  There's a multitude of wonderful sounding speakers out there, by a multitude of different manufacturers, and the aforementioned are just a few of them.  The beauty of High End Audio is, you get to pick your pleasure.    

We pick KMD Orchestalls Reference speakers until we die ! Once heard you might just be hooked for life...Axpona 2023 Show

 www.kmdeng.co.kr/KMD/elementor-1042/

I've see the KMD speakers on-line on Youtube and they are very impressive looking and sounding through my computer speakers.  Very impressive.  I'd love to hear them in person.  KMD was a no-show at T.H.E. Show last month.  Hopefully, KMD with have am exhibit at the Pacific Audio Fest, which I will attend at the end of this month (July).     

I heard the A5 hooked up to some huge Gryphon amps at a local dealership.  I thought the sound was decent--typical of many such high end speakers--they image extremely well, particularly with respect to front- to back image placement specificity, they sound detailed and clean and smooth (no harsh peaks in the frequency response).  To my taste they were on the slightly lean side (needed a bit more in the upper bass region), but not disagreeably lean.  What they lacked most, to me, is what almost all low efficiency speakers lack--the ability to sound alive and vibrant at lower listening levels, and an overall lack in dynamic ability such that they were a touch "lifeless" unless cranked up a bit.  Whether this is a characteristic of such speakers or the kinds of amplifiers needed for such speakers, I don't know, and it really doesn't matter; I like the dynamics and low-volume capability of high-efficiency speakers and low-powered amps.

Speakers vary so much in sound characteristics that it is possible for one to favor a very cheap speaker over a mega-buck system if the cheap speaker just happens to fit one's basic preference profile.  This does NOT mean the mega-buck speaker is a failure or rip-off, it just means it is not suited to your taste.  An audition is the only way to determine if it is to ones taste and worth the money.