Magico owners S1Mk 2

Not an owner but I have done the same as @erik_squires. I spent some time with them at a dealer.  

My experience was the speakers disappeared.  They were standing next to Scansonics and Kaisers and I had to ask which speaker was playing.  No localization at all.  Soundstage had wonderful height and width.  Detail is incredible and it is one of the Beryllium tweeter implementations I really like.  They were very, very good.  I did not ultimately buy them because they don't fit my taste perfectly, but they were very, very good

excellent description. thanks. would you describe them as lean or was there some bass weight within their limits? 

I wouldn’t call them lean so much as chesty, and cool, and kind of an odd speaker to fit to a room.

The treble is very smooth, and very wide. You get an amazingly wide sweet spot but only if you have the right room and can place them far away from side and rear walls.

What I mean by chesty is the lower ranges of the female voice, to piano seem accentuated in all the Magico’s I’ve listened to. This is a point many other listeners dispute and disagree with me on. Listen to Diana Krall and see how she does for you.

The treble is absolutely glass smooth, one of the best I’ve heard, but it is also a little elevated and will sound better at low volumes, so if you feel you have hearing loss, this may do very well for you.

They are also terribly insensitive and need a big sturdy amplifier to sound their best. And here’s the rub, IMHO. These are small, limited output speakers that are very demanding on amp and room. I mean, for a small speaker, you’d like it to be more forgiving, and let you take less space, but really the opposite is true. They’ll take as much floor space as a larger speaker would due to their ultra wide dispersion. Also, why get a small speaker you want to listen to at low volumes that's going to demand really big beefy amps?  This kind of balance really leaves me scratching my head overall.

If you have the room for them, a speaker from the Magico A line is probably going to be much more speaker for the money. More dynamic range, more bass, and similar mid-treble voicing.

I would take erik_squires comments with a BIG grain of salt. It has been proven a few times already that his imagination works overtime.
I have my doubt if he has ever hard a Magico.

sciencecop,
That is an unkind comment with no basis in fact. I have never had reason to doubt the veracity of his observations which normally seem very even-handed.