All New Magico A5 Loudspeakers // Biggest "BANG" For Your BUCK On The Market ?!


Some are saying these A5's are Giant Killers ! 
As GOOD as the M Series ?... 
Sound Stage Review coming Soon ! 
 Not connected with Magico in any way
 
https://www.soundstageglobal.com/index.php/blogging-on-audio/201-howard-kneller/904-first-look-and-listen-magicos-new-a5-loudspeaker
 
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you could buy some kefs for a fraction of the cost of the magico.

https://www.soundvisionreview.com/hi-fi-home-theater/speakers/kef-q550-review/

Magico are overpriced for what you get. Why pay $100K when you can buy a speaker for 500 bucks? 
glupson I dare you to prove to me right now that the Magico has better measurements than a cheap speaker. I dont care how much effort went into making the Magicos. It all comes down to whether the Magico is superior or not. 
Mr Magico. If you are reading this post, I hereby challenge you!
Even superior measurements are worthless if they are inaudible! I dare you to show me the proof!!
The materials he is using are very expensive and the techniques cost a lot to implement.
But you could just use concrete which isnt expensive so its still overpriced
not really. A quick search shows that a few years ago the CS5i were going for only under 4k bucks which would also be negotiable.

https://forum.polkaudio.com/discussion/169027/fs-thiel-cs5i-speakers

There are plenty of big heavy objects you can buy that cost very little. Bricks, concrete, cast marble etc. Aluminium has a nice finish so that is another reason it is used. There is no proof that the Magico method works or that it cant be done more cheaply. 
You could mount your drivers in the wall at a fraction of the cost and it would be far more inert.

Concrete is actually a lousy material from a time domain perspective. The goal of lightweight critically damped materials is clean rapid decay with low coloration.
Concrete is used by high end speaker companies. 
https://www.concrete-audio.com/en/

A lightweight material is not good as it will ring. If you damp it, it will just ring at a lower frequency. 

Aluminium is cheap anyway so there is no good reason for magico to charge such high prices. Magico do not publish evidence that their speakers are superior. Do not buy Magico.
@dht4me 

you could use marble or concrete like the Thiel Audio CS5i. There is nothing special about aluminium. The trouble is Magico wont publish their measurements so it is impossible to verify any claims. 

It's impossible to compare how other speakers compare without measurements. Its impossible to know whether you couldnt achieve the same performance at a fraction of the cost without measurements. Its impossible to know if all the trouble and expense they go to is even audible is it? I dare you to prove it to me.
I wasnt talking about the MUON. I was talking about the cheaper kef Q550. Can you prove to me that the Magico are better? I challenge you to prove it to me glupson
They are just metal boxes with drivers in 'em instead of the usual wooden boxes! 
As for measurements, anyone can refer to the SoundStage! Network and Stereophile data to compare against other speakers. What I (and others) hear backs up the superior quality implied by those measurements.
If they are so superior why wont Magico publish it themselves?