Your Pick Between These Two...


Room acoustics/size, equipment and musical tastes, all relative, which would you chose?

Joseph Audio Perspectives or Magico A3's

I'll leave it open, as I know there will be a multitude of other offerings. All other suggestions are greatly welcomed as long as you feel they may compete with all the requirements and SQ of the two originals in question. Particularly, if they come in under priced!

Thanks
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What amp do you have nobody knows yet, this should be the first criteria, before any suggestions are made.

As the Magico’s need an amp with guts (current) as they are 3ohms in most of the bass/upper bass and also 3ohms in the upper mids.
https://www.stereophile.com/images/archivesart/508Magfig1.jpg

Where the Perspectives are an easy load and don’t need a muscle amp.
https://www.stereophile.com/images/614Jopefig1.jpg

Not to say you need a lot of watts with the Magico’s at 87db a 100w will do, but it need to be a muscular amp that can do current into 2ohms to be comfortable.

The Perspectives how ever are an easy load, but are only 84db and would like an amp of 150w or more, but it can be a light weight mosfet, tube or even a Class-D, my preference in that order.

Cheers George
Navy,

I assume you have heard them both?

I have had the Pulsars in my home but the only
time I heard Magicos was at shows where they sounded
clean but uninvolving. i.e did not draw me in.

The Pulsars, on the other hand are a speaker I loved.
They work well in a smaller or medium-sized room
and make some bass too. 

Are you secure enough with yourself to consider a no-name?
If so look at Fritz. $3500 may be as good as the Joseph. I only
think this. No personal experience.

Keep us posted on your progress.


If you go the Klipsch route, the Cornwall IV would be my recommendation, as a significant upgrade over the IIIs, which I think, mijostyn might have meant.
Raven Audio CeLest towers.

www.ravenadio.com

bought these on a lark due to the 45 day trial. After recovering from Covid-19 and the CeLest stayed in the Sonus Faber Olympica II went in the kids game room.