Used Magico V3 or Rockport Mira 2

A “musical” speaker?? A totally subjective, and quite frankly, useless description. Unfortunately, it is used by audiophile all the time. In my experience, “musical” basically mean a coloration of some sort which for some reason one may fancy . A speaker should be as “true to the source” as possible. That does not mean analytical or austere, which are also forums of coloration. To my ears the Rockport are much less “true to the source”, and therefore more “colored” then the Magico. You may fancy that but I would not call that “musical”. Listen to a cello recording, and immediately after to a soprano. It takes a second to hear how significant the loudspeaker coloration on the sound is. To my ears, the Rockport “sound” is more evident than the Magico one.

A “musical” speaker?? A totally subjective, and quite frankly, useless description. Unfortunately, it is used by audiophile all the time. In my experience, “musical” basically mean a coloration of some sort which for some reason one may fancy . A speaker should be as “true to the source” as possible. That does not mean analytical or austere, which are also forums of coloration. To my ears the Rockport are much less “true to the source”, and therefore more “colored” then the Magico. You may fancy that but I would not call that “musical”. Listen to a cello recording, and immediately after to a soprano. It takes a second to hear how significant the loudspeaker coloration on the sound is. To my ears, the Rockport “sound” is more evident than the Magico one.

Different strokes for different folks. It's funny how we all perceive sound differently. To me, the Magico sound is anything but "true to the source" if your reference is live unamplified sound. To me the Magico sound lacks any of the organic natural texture of instrumental and vocal timbres. It sounds clean and highly resolved for sure but lacks texture and body and sounds almost austere and clinical to me. But this just goes to show the OP that opinions are just that opinions and one has to go and listen with their own ears and see what is pleasing to you.

Sorry but it can’t be “highly resolved”, and not "true to the source" at the same time. Perhaps if we clean up on the vocabulary, we will start understanding each other better.

I will be listening to Rockport Mira 2s in a couple of days. I was told they sound better than Wilson Sophia IIIs and Sasha’s! Another told me, he heard Sasha's and Mira 2s and the Mira's weren't even close. My ears will tell me in a couple of days.

Usermanual...perhaps "highly resolved" was not appropriate. I should have used the descriptor that the Magicos generally reproduce a lot of detail (which can give the impression of high resolution) but for me they lack a key ingredient for reproducing instrumental timbres and vocals, and that is the body and texture that one clearly hears when listening to a real instrument playing or a person singing. One of the key areas I find this to be the case is in the reproduction of bass where the Magicos can admittedly deliver punchy and cleanly articulated bass but it is dry and lacks the natural harmonic overtones (again the body is the best term I can think of to describe this) in the low frequencies. That is but one example. In any case, I do not wish to enter into a prolonged argument over the Magicos with you. You clearly are a fan of the Magico house sound, and that is great. When I listen to Magicos, I admire the speakers but do not get emotionally engaged. To each his own. My original point to the OP is that he should listen for himself and make up his own mind because we all hear differently, have heard the speakers in question with different playback equipment in different rooms, and so it becomes very hard to make valid comparative comments. All the best to you.