q3 magico

Hi Rx8man,

I meant no offense. These can be "touchy" areas and things often get quite personal. I understand your point but I think these reviewers are well aware of the environment in which their reviews are seen, discussed and often scrutinized. It can get kind of hot. Given the internet and forums such as these, there is now much more back and forth. I find it fun and often quite informative. I would hope that the reviewers enjoy the increased responses that the reviews generate.

I think Q3 certainly can be matched with lower power amplifier but it certainly will benefit from more power as well but not quite to the same degree as Q5. Soulution 710 120w certainly will drive it very very loud in medium size room. However, like V3 and Q5 (to a lesser degree), it can benefit from a bit more power. On my Lamm M2.2, I have 2 options, high gain mode with 220W in 8 ohms, 440w in 4 ohms or low gain mode with 220W in 4 ohms with more bias into class A. Generally Lamm recommends using low gain mode for any speakers with 1-6 ohms impedance. At least with Q3, I prefer using Lamm in high gain mode as dynamic and bass does improve quite a bit. Not that I discourage low output amps as I think the midrange/treble would be very special with low power tube amp but there may be some trade off as well.

ok, finally heard the magico 3 again ,in a collegues friend home
last week. system with soulution stereo,preamp and cd player. cables are all echole obssesion(my favorites!).
room is nice , not too big, and some treatment.
sound---very clean, very accurate but with body in the mids and good punch in the bass. tweeter is also very good.
i like the g.u em sound more but magico is very nice for the money. better then many other more expensive speaekrs for sure.