Revel Salon 2’s (used) or new Magico A-3 (new) ??

I for one, can appreciate someone like Audio Doctor giving advise even if they are a dealer. It’s kind of what I want & need (as I’m sure many people asking questions like mine would also appreciate) as I am kinda flying blind in that I cannot possible see everything out there. They did not try to sell me anything and only giving advise on what they like & hear. Just like me talking to all my friends about Audio.
But, just to be fair, and make everyone feel better, I am going to put Audio Doctor in a big “time out” with there noses on the chalkboard until they realize what they did wrong!
The only way I will let them out early is if they redeem themselves and sell me a pair of Revel, Paradigm’s or Legacys at their cost! 😉😜

audiotroy wrote:

the Golden Ears tend to sound a bit dark and bass heavy,

That agrees with my encounters as well.

I'm very sensitive to tone/timbre and I get why many people think Golden Ear is a terrific bargain.  The sound is big, pretty transparent, spacious, rich - a lot of sound for the money.  But it's always been a bit off, tonally to my ears, a bit dark and boring. 

@telescope_trade If I had 10K to spend on speakers on A'gon today, the clear choice--to me--would be the Vienna Acoustics The Music.  But then, that's just me.

4425,


Yea thanks! They are local so good there, just got to be careful transporting
them. No original boxes unfortunately, but may be able to finagle them into my T-Ref boxes just for transport. 

Prof,

yea, I somewhat agree with both of you. This is like my 10th pair of GE’s (Second T-Refs) They fit a perfect place n the market, I would say from experience they are the perfect 50/50 speaker for music & HT. They offer a big sound like you said
and have subs for HT. So a lot of speaker wrapped into one pkg. 
But after hearing the Salon 2’s, they are much more live, vibrant & dynamic for music, and being a big full range speaker, will still double as a killer HT speaker with much higher resolution.

Just thought since I had a few days, I would do some quick last minute shopping LOL. But in reading everything I can find, and looking at everything I can afford, it seems the Salon 2 remains the best bang for the buck I can find, without being able to hear everything talked about of coarse. 
I did own the previous Legacy Focus SE, and think the are a great great speaker for the price as well. Almost willing to get a new pair for maybe even less than
the used Salons. 

Would love to run those two off!

Two left ears,

Will look em up thanks!