Magico Mini II vs. Magico V2 comparison

If you don't know what a French sound is (ala JM Labs) then you must be new at this game. I didn't say they were bad speakers, just unjustifiable at the price point. By the way, an orchestra is a wall of sound. Close your eyes at a concert and you will understand that instruments project sound in all directions...they don't focus their energy at your head (that is a Hi Fi artifact). So many great speakers are available at a lower price of admission. As I said, it's a bit daft to put so much effort and cost into building a box that you don't want to sound like a box, DUH!!

"anything" by Ravel,Debussy.....preferrably conducted by Andre Cluytens,on a nice early pressing EMI LP......

ah, Cluytens! Love his Pastoral on EMI - one of the few to rival Boehm.

What tube amps besides VAC Phi 300.1 and ARC Ref 210 will drive well the Magico V2 or V3? hybrid Lamm 1.2?
 
 

See, Sirspeedy understands the French:O)

Dave you argue price. But for many on this site price is no object. Some people have millions of dollars in the bank. Some people race cars, fly planes, or buy houses as hobbies. Thirty grand might be nothing to them but having a GOOD LOOKING and sound speaker might matter.

Also while and orchestra might be a wall of sound (depending on venue), small bands and voice simply are not. Large dipole speakers can make everything have a similar sound stage. Lets not forget that the microphones that record the piece are point source and orchestras only use a few microphones to record at one time. Arguably you need a point source to recreate a point source accurately.

A point source is much easier it integrate into room apposed to a dipole. So while you may be hearing less "box" with magnepan you are hearing more of the larger box (your room), than with a good point source speaker. A good sized room (not too large) with point source near-field listening is almost always the best way to get good sound-stage and imaging because it minimizes room effects. Which bring up back to the advantages of the Magico mini and the SUBJECT OF THE ORIGINAL THREAD.... Magico.

I understand James63, believe me! I am not a novice and have owned many $100K systems in various homes over the years...most of them box based. For orchestral, planars sound far more natural. Jazz also sounds more continuous and existing in the same space. In addition, my planars have more natural tone across the board..smoother strings, large soundstage, exceptional treble (best in the business), amazing reproduction of overtones and a quikness that adds far more coherency than most any conventional speaker system. Just play a piano piece and anyone who has been around live piano music frequently (that's me) can hear the difference...my 3.6R's give you the whole piano clearly, coherently and with accurate pitch defintion. Even squeezing a Baby Grand through a largish box design can be difficult. But, I will allow you to return to your regularly scheduled insanity with no further interruptions :O) No hard feelings, I remember my first couple pairs of Wilsons and then Dyn's, even my Dunlavy SC-V's etc.. When you want to believe in something bad enough you will...at least for awhile. My biggest pet peeve is that very little work is being done to really advance the state of the art in audio playback...month after month of cover stories featuring another groundbreaking box speaker (not). FYI, the best box speaker I've heard is Avalon with Spectral gear.