Magico vs the world

@kingbarbuda,

You have quite an impressive line up of equipment.  The systems must sound wonderful.

@stereo5 Well yes to me it sounds great. Thanks. I treat my listening room a bit like a listening lab. But I suppose quite a few of us do. 

@smodtactical

Can you please provide a link to Jeff review? I search the entire Ultraaudio site, did not find one. He did talk about buying them and show a factory visit, but I don’t see any review.

mheinze,

Well the Focal's Sopra 2's sounded superior to me over the A3's with the Ayre equipment. I guess to each his own, I chose what I thought sounded best.
FYI, I also own the same Ayre preamp along with tube mono blocks and (4) JL Audio F-113 subs. So perhaps that negates the criticism of the Sopra's.

ozzy

I moved from a set of B&W 803D3 to S3mkII last year and I never looked back. I was very happy with my 803s but after listening to the S3s several times (my dealer was kind enough to let me bring CDs and LPs for a few listening sessions with a similar system), I realized that I was gaining so much more detail, bass definition and sound stage. What I heard at the dealer, luckily for me, carried over to my listening room. If I had a bit more money to spend, I would have gone to the M2, they are amazing.

I don’t claim to have the best ears, not even above average actually, but I do know what I like and for me, Magico makes one some of the top speakers in the business and I hope I am lucky enough to be able to keep my S3s forever, or at least until I can afford the M2s, lol. All this said, I don’t think it is Magico versus the world. The absolute beauty for us audiophiles is that we have SO MANY options to pick from based on sound and price. Aren’t we lucky?

krazy ivan out.