Magico speakers too clinical and fatiguing?

we have heard them at many shows and they always sound way too mechanical and lack musicality

part of the issue is aluminum rings monotonically it has great stiffness and rigidity however aluminum rings badly

we did have a similar issue with the Paradigm Persona’s we tuned them via power conditioning, critical mass products, and some other tweaks, choice of dac and server and after some work were able to gett hem to sound musical, these super high resolution loudspeakers require very careful matching to tune the sound to taste.

Dave and Troy

audio intellect NJ

Vitus + Magico combination here. Been very satisfied and never felt fatigued.

I've only heard Magico once at CAF, no idea what model, and wasn't expecting much. They were paired with an all CAT system their top monoblocks and I'd describe the sound I heard as rich and chocolatey. Weird and not at all what I expected I chalked it up to those CAT amps.

and this is why I am not buying this junk 

(and also because my wife would poison and then shoot me if I spent Botswana's national debt on speakers)

The inherent character of Magicos is on the analytical slightly dry side. The latest models are less so. The are somewhat similar to B&Ws in that regard but their frequency response is more accurate than the latter.

However some people love that kind of sonic signature - just as some people love Naim and Chord electronics.

@Emerging Soul - to answer your question, I don't think it has anything to do with science per se. Magicos are extremely well engineered speakers, but there are lots of other equally well engineered speakers that have a different sonic signature.

It is not the science, but what the designer does with it that determines the end result.