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Magico S5 Speaker - SET UP ADVICE PLEASE - Tow-In - Etc.

Any Magico Owners or Dealers or Folks or anyone that may have some basic advice, ideas or feedback from hearing or seeing in a friends, dealers system or owned older version of Magico or something like or anything really that can help me? How are yours or theirs set up? The smallest moves makes huge changes and I am coming from speakers that are so very different so any and all feedback would so welcomed.

I CAN EMAIL YOU PICS of Room / Set up / Etc  fsmthjack at YAH00

THANK YOU

BACKGROUND INFO:

ROOM:                         24 x 14 with cathedral ceilings 
MUSIC:                        Good mix - no hard metal / large orchestra and the like
LOUDNESS:                normal levels - just loud enough to sound best
SPEAKERS                  Magico S5 Speakers
AMP:                            Pass Labs X350.5 Amp
SOURCE:                     Bricasti M1SE DAC
TRANSPORT:               mircoRendu 1.4 w/Full suite of Uptone Audio products
CABLES                       HiDiamond Full Loom 
CONDITIONER            HiDiamond HDX2
SUBWOOFERS           (2) Sumiko S.9 Subs (hoping not needed with new Magico's) 

Thanks guys - I am kind of lost here and any help or feedback to get me heading in the right directions would be so appreciated.







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shadorne
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Absolutely easy to use a soldering iron if you are handy at any form of DIY. The only thing you have to be careful of is to "tin" the wire a bit before soldering the connection and in order to make a good solder you must get everything heated up - so a bead of solder touching wire and connector and iron tip will do the trick.

I am sure their are YouTube videos about soldering. The only thing you can't fix is SMC components as that requires a special iron but most high end audio is discrete anyway.
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fdpdk
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There was also another poster that mentioned something that you might take into account, maybe the former owner did not play music on them for many hours, meaning that your speakers are maybe not even broken in. That could also explain a lot.
joey_v
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Try a tube preamp.  Please.
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I'm traveling for business down to Dallas until Wednesday. Running my system entire time - can't run them too loud as to be fair to my wife and kids but running it.
moved them further apart - since the pictures and been working on tow in a lot but straight just doesn't work - miss too much info. 

So have it down to:

BAT VK32SE tube preamp
and I'm trading my speaker cables toward it.

i don't want to buy some cable I've never heard - so thinking Cardas - was thinking the Clear but they are not a really laid back so thinking 
Cardas Clear Reflection which they say add some Golden Reference - a little thicker in hip (lower mid bass) 

i know - I know - don't use cables as tuning machine but getting good synerg matters.

also thinging PAD Corvus Revision - PAD might be a good fit?

Cardas or PAD? What do you think?

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