Peter - Thanks again for the update. Being able to tune the bass "Q" is a wonderful feature. My subwoofers have that (Vandersteen 2Wq).
Seperately, I had a good listen to Magico S5 MkII speakers at an audio club meeting last Sunday. No, my Ohms are not as good as the Magicos. But the presentation was very different - top-down is how I would describe it, while my system is definitely bottom-up. Here is my point: While I find the Ohms pretty good at detail resolution, they are not so transparent (or ruthless) that poorly recorded music becomes unlistenable. The Magicos are that type of speaker: So pure, so clean, and so revealing, that inferior source material becomes unlistenable. Every bit of excess brightness in a recording, a poor soundstage, and any number of problems with the recording becomes so annoying that listening to that music is not a pleasent experience. Would I like the purity and the freedom from distortion the Magicos (along with a pretty expensive chain of electronics) are capable of? Sure. But not if that meant I could no longer listen to the music I love because it was poorly recorded or mastered. Anyway, at $38K the pair, for me, it’s just an academic question!
