Magico Mini II vs. Magico V2 comparison

I have heard both the V2 and the Mini 2. They were in different systems but at the same dealership. The Mini 2/Nagra/VPI system did nothing for me. Detail and dynamics were lacking and I felt no involvement with the music. The V2/Spectal/SME/MIT system, on the other hand,was incredibly musical and involving. In fact, it was the best dealer demo I've ever heard. This leads me to conclude that both speakers are extremely transparent and revealing and highly dependent on the matching with the rest of the system. The V2 did seem to have deeper and fuller bass and the new tweeter allowed the speaker to be tilted directly at the listener which I find helps to lessen the effects of the room. The V2 at 60% of the cost of the Mini 2 is an incredible speaker. The Mini 2 is probably also superb, but the system in which I heard it did not help it at all.

Hi Milimetr,
If your preference (as stated) are monitor speakers, then no doubt the Mini2 is it. In a room your size, given sufficient quality juice, I believe they will play full-range enough. I would suggest a 'minimum' of 200watts+ of quality tube power, or 400watts+/4ohms of SS muscle.

However, with any Magico current line, I'm afraid your current amp will not be quite up to task. I had driven Mini2s with the Jadis JA200 for several months and was at times left wanting--they are really power hungry! And as with all great transparent transducers, are also very sensitive to the quality of gears preceding them. That said, V2 as is the V3 is a 'slightly' easier drive. How high is your ceiling?

A while back some friends and I did an 'AB' comparison between the Magico Mini 1 vs. my SF GH's. Too a man, we all preferred the SF's in my room, by a wide margin. Albeit,this was the Mini 1 and not the Mini 2s. So, I don't know how the SF's would stack up today against the Mini 2's, would be interested to see. BTW, at the time, there were numerous posts from disgruntled Magico owners in disbelief, they've probably all 'upgraded' to the Mini 2's since then.

@ Ebm
In my room Magico V2 worked very well with 60W Jadis. Jadis is very conservative rated at 60W and has enormous output transformer. So there is no problem that 60 tube Watts were to short for Magico, but probably more Watts will be even better.
I suppose that Magico monitors may require even more power than V2.

@ Bvdiman

The height of the ceiling is near 9 ft. Yes, the transparency is the most noticeable advantage of V2.

The foloorstanding V2 do to suits my room and now I have hard decision to make. Mini II in US are very highly priced, but in Europe (where I live) the pice for Mini II is just ridiculous!

That’s why I also think about Guarneri Memento. It does not have such transparency, but maybe is would be possible to correct with proper cabling.

If you have heard the V2's in your room and your system and were very pleased, I'd call it good and place the order. As others have stated, system matching is important and if you know you have a match, no need to risk any other expense and hassle.