Magico Comparison

OP, what difference does it make what others think or like?

Magico brand and its appeal is clear. Like any product, you either like it or not. IF you like it, and can afford it, then by all means go for it!

Strengths:

- very high build quality
- relatively compact designs with good aesthetics that should fit well into most any listener's space

Weaknesses:

- expensive
- small size in general may not be best solution for larger rooms for the money.
- needs right high power high current amp to get the most out of them

Finally, a reasonable post, thank you Larry.
Yes, there are handful of other brands that do offer better performance than the average high-end product, but they are few and far between (Vivid is indeed one of them). However, since you mentioned Toole, let me point out that in blind testing, people opinions become much more predictable. Therefore in a control environment it will be easy to determine which is a better product. and if people will buy strictly on sound, we will have fewer brands around.

Mapman says:
"OP, what difference does it make what others think or like?"

When one is buying an expensive item, listening to what a broad group of folks say are negatives can be valuable so that one can go listen for those purported weaknesses, which might have slipped under the radar, to see they might become bothersome. Very often, where there is a lot of smoke there really is some fire.

If after scrutinizing the product to see if you notice what the major complaints are, and you don't, sure, after buying it makes no difference what anyone else says.

Marin26, and many others, are not really paying attention to that which they do not want to admit: the possibility that there are some true sonic characteristics of Magico that put off some listeners in a major way. Some aggressive types frequency response anomolies and/or distortions really stand out to many folks. That many others do not hear these characteristics does not mean that they are not there, it means that certain listeners are not sensitive to them. And the fact that those sounnds so irritate some people results in frustration that others do not hear it and note it.

If it were just that Magico is expensive then the same sort of vitriol would be present with Rockport speakers, which reach as high as Magico in price and have so for a longer period of time. But we do not see those very negative comments toward Rockport. Neither do we see that polarized response toward the Vandersteen model 7 or the Revel Ultima Salon 2. How about the super expensive large Focal? They do not represent state of the sound to many of us, but they do not become targets of such vocal derision, I believe mainly because their faults are not ones of an irritating, somewhat aggressive sonic nature. How about ESP, for another brand? Never do I hear "they are awful, they hurt my ears, they are full of distortion."

We can name too many brands of prominent, highly reviewed, expensive speakers, such as I started naming above, that are not attacked. I think folks should consider that quite possibly there really are some negative sonic traits of the Magico models that do represent some distortions or problems that make sensitive listeners ears hurt.

Magico is a wonderful sounding speaker.If you don't like them keep on trucking Everyones perception of great sound is different.You must have the best components all through the chain.Some people that can't afford something love to knock it.