Opportunity to buy Demo Magico M2?

@fastfreight I chose the A5 over the Hailey 2.2, after a long prosses of auditions (I like YG, had the Carmel 2 before). The A5 are a better speaker, much more complete and organic sounding, for almost half the price, IMO of course.

@nyev Not sure what it is you are trying to accomplish with your posts. As you can see, there are as many opinions as participants. You will be the only one who can decide, and I think you already did. You should just move on, Magico is not for for everyone, there are plenty of other options out there.

Seems like a lot of stress even with the discount, the only way to be sure is to demo them in your own space...

OP,

You said a couple of important things. One you love the sound of the speakers you have and you were not moved by the Magico. Whether bass increases over 500 hours or not you really want to love the sound. You want an emotional connection… didn’t sound like you got it..

I have heard a number of Magico. They are amazing speakers. But, they are so fast that they really highlight any slight hardness or analytical nature in upstream electronics. My personal guess is they would require a top notch all tube system to appeal to me.

What about top of the line B&W? Sonus Faber. I would listen to those.

When auditioning try to just experience the music… it should grab your heart. If not, it may be a technically great speaker but doesn’t capture music like your subconscious wants to experience it.

Larryi +1

Poke33 it can really get stressful, it can be fun as well, anytime you want big changes on the system, it require money, research, tweaking , or even changing amps, cables as well and listening too .it’s a lot of work.