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Magico Mini II vs. Magico V2 comparison

Hello,

I am looking for new speakers for my system.

After auditioning many famous brands I found the Magico V2 to be simply outstanding in my system. This is the best speaker I have tried in my own listening room. The second speaker I was comparably impressed were old Guarneri Hommages. Other speakers I have tried did not impressed me or simply played bad.

The room is 20’ long and 13’ width. The amplifier is 60W Jadis JA-80.

For my room I prefer monitor speakers than floorstanding. Doeas anybody compared directly side by side Magico V2 and Magico Mini II? I am especially interested in bass preformane. Is Mini II has less bass than V2 it will not suits my taste. The bass of the V2 is just enough for my room.

If somebody compared new Sonus Faber Guarneri Memento with Magico Mini II I will be also grateful for opinion.
milimetr
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daveyf
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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.
milimetr OP
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@ 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.
brianmgrarcom
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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.
ebm
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MINI 2 with 300 watts per channel in my room 13WX19/3/4d with 9Ft cealing Rowland 8T sounds wonderful with vocal etc magic!! Im using Kharma speaker wire. I do agree speaker price is getting too high. v2 is wonderful with more bass i heard people with Rel subs on mini for super system however this being said V2 is a bargin!!MINI 2 is the best small monitor!!
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daveyf
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Milimetr,
your statement about the Guarneri Memento being less transparent is interesting. One of the AB's my 'phile friends and I have done is a comparison between the SF GH's
and the SF GM's. This was very instructive since the GM's lost out in all areas except maybe a little more bottom end
heft. The GM's were far less transparent than the GH's. We postulated many reasons for this, most of which I have posted before on A'gon. SF seemed to have 'cheapened' if you will the speaker when they introduced the GM's and we all felt that this was obvious in the 'AB'.
The original GH's vs. the Mini 2's would be a better comparison IMHO.
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