@viber6
Still waiting for you to reveal what review you read where the reviewer stated:
" The Magico M9 can produce lots of bass, but the reviewer implies the overall effect is a big sound which is unfocused."
I Googled Magico M9 review and came up with two reviews, both were extremely positive. Here are a few quotes from Jeff Fritz (Soundstage) July 21,2021 review.
"I heard the vastest sense of space I’ve ever heard when listening to reproduced music—the “sound” of the listening room morphed into a performance space. The experience was almost like that of a good planetarium—the soundstage didn’t exist as an entity in front of me; it was a continuous space, unbroken by boundaries that would define depth or width or height. This was beyond simply room-filling. It was space-defining."
"There was no compression in the highs. I thought to myself, After this, hearing any other high-frequency reproduction will seem stilted by comparison. I could not believe my ears—it was simply the finest high-frequency sound I’ve ever heard."
" I wasn’t just hearing vocal inflections and microdynamic shifts within those vocals; I was gaining a microscopic view into the performance that I’m not sure even the artist could have known was there. I marveled at how closely I could “watch” the singer, how awesomely transparent the midrange was. I can’t even conceive of how any distortion—certainly not of the audible variety—could have crept into the reproduction of this tune. It was the best I’ve heard it by far."
"The bass and piano were kept separate in space, almost as if they were being reproduced by separate speakers—I can’t imagine this speaker ever being congested. The scale and sense of power that the system produced with this track were beyond anything I’ve ever heard"
"The bass power was, again, essentially limitless. The entire room flexed with the energy that the M9s were projecting. I walked up and placed my hand on the woofer cabinet as the bass was rattling my brain and felt . . . nothing. The cabinet was completely at rest, even as the entirety of the room was struggling to contain the bass power. This was the deepest, most intense bass I’ve ever heard. Sense a trend here? Is it?
The best, that is. Yes, it’s the best sound I’ve ever heard. What’s really crazy about my experience is that I don’t feel I tested the limits of what a pair of M9s can truly do."
And from Wayne Garcia (The Absolute Sound) April 19,2021
"I can’t recall any other speaker in my experience so lacking its own signature, one so breathtakingly pure and uncolored, so free of smear, hangover, driver and cabinet noise and coloration, one so stunningly coherent across such a complete frequency range—this, mind you, while sporting pairs of 15″ woofers."
"What’s more, as you might easily guess, the M9 can effortlessly play at concert hall levels and convincingly recreate the size of concert venues; yet, it can also whisper, ever so softly, while sounding surprisingly delicate and scaled-down when the music calls for it. And though its extraordinary resolution clearly vaults the M9 to a special plane, the speaker doesn’t come across as sounding like impressive hi-fi; instead, it just disappears. After the first few tracks my shoulders simply relaxed, my mental checklist turned off, and I was fully immersed in the M9’s musical magic."
Still waiting for you to reveal what review you read where the reviewer stated:
" The Magico M9 can produce lots of bass, but the reviewer implies the overall effect is a big sound which is unfocused."
I Googled Magico M9 review and came up with two reviews, both were extremely positive. Here are a few quotes from Jeff Fritz (Soundstage) July 21,2021 review.
"I heard the vastest sense of space I’ve ever heard when listening to reproduced music—the “sound” of the listening room morphed into a performance space. The experience was almost like that of a good planetarium—the soundstage didn’t exist as an entity in front of me; it was a continuous space, unbroken by boundaries that would define depth or width or height. This was beyond simply room-filling. It was space-defining."
"There was no compression in the highs. I thought to myself, After this, hearing any other high-frequency reproduction will seem stilted by comparison. I could not believe my ears—it was simply the finest high-frequency sound I’ve ever heard."
" I wasn’t just hearing vocal inflections and microdynamic shifts within those vocals; I was gaining a microscopic view into the performance that I’m not sure even the artist could have known was there. I marveled at how closely I could “watch” the singer, how awesomely transparent the midrange was. I can’t even conceive of how any distortion—certainly not of the audible variety—could have crept into the reproduction of this tune. It was the best I’ve heard it by far."
"The bass and piano were kept separate in space, almost as if they were being reproduced by separate speakers—I can’t imagine this speaker ever being congested. The scale and sense of power that the system produced with this track were beyond anything I’ve ever heard"
"The bass power was, again, essentially limitless. The entire room flexed with the energy that the M9s were projecting. I walked up and placed my hand on the woofer cabinet as the bass was rattling my brain and felt . . . nothing. The cabinet was completely at rest, even as the entirety of the room was struggling to contain the bass power. This was the deepest, most intense bass I’ve ever heard. Sense a trend here? Is it?
The best, that is. Yes, it’s the best sound I’ve ever heard. What’s really crazy about my experience is that I don’t feel I tested the limits of what a pair of M9s can truly do."
And from Wayne Garcia (The Absolute Sound) April 19,2021
"I can’t recall any other speaker in my experience so lacking its own signature, one so breathtakingly pure and uncolored, so free of smear, hangover, driver and cabinet noise and coloration, one so stunningly coherent across such a complete frequency range—this, mind you, while sporting pairs of 15″ woofers."
"What’s more, as you might easily guess, the M9 can effortlessly play at concert hall levels and convincingly recreate the size of concert venues; yet, it can also whisper, ever so softly, while sounding surprisingly delicate and scaled-down when the music calls for it. And though its extraordinary resolution clearly vaults the M9 to a special plane, the speaker doesn’t come across as sounding like impressive hi-fi; instead, it just disappears. After the first few tracks my shoulders simply relaxed, my mental checklist turned off, and I was fully immersed in the M9’s musical magic."