Magico speakers too clinical and fatiguing?

well I don't know why people are so enamored with magico I've listened to the many times and I'm not that impressed and you're right they sound very clinical and not natural, I like a speaker that's neutral and sounds like a real performance that's why I like the monitor audio platinum series they're way more three-dimensional airy and spacious b then the magico, The voice piano and symbols sound way more natural and real than through magico. The MPD tweeter is much better than the beryllium tweeter that magico uses.

I think I read somewhere that Magico had a model where the grills were not including in the price of the speaker and also if the speaker was sent back to them for repair they wouldn’t return them it back to you, they would notify you which dock at their facility to pickup your fixed speaker after paying $12k to replace a driver. That’s kinda comical to me…

Interesting how he Absolute Sound raves about these speakers.  They must like the clinical, dry sound.  

Unless you hear Magico speakers in a dedicated listening room where every detail has been addressed you're probably not going to hear their potential. 

The first time I heard them was at dealership listening room in Chicago. I couldn't believe the amazing sonics from them. That demo was the best I'd ever heard music sound in my life! I was sure we were listening to more than one pair of speakers. I was sure there must have been a sub woofer also. I thought the amplifier had to be a tube amp. None of that was true. It was a Hegel integrated amp, very expensive Transparent cables, no expense spared in room treatments and a laser to help determine exact sweet spot listening position.

I spent years chasing what I heard in that demo and now have it. 

Hearing Magico speakers at a hifi show just isn't going to measure up to what they're capable of. If they sound clinical and dry the set up just isn't correct. 

I spend hours at a time listening to my rig. Sometimes my wife finds me sleeping up there. She wonders how I can fall a sleep with the music so loud? Well, it's me just wanting to hear one more album side or streaming tune because it sounds SO good!

A good buddy who has S7's and VAC 450iQ mono's/matching preamplifier told me that the relationship of amplification and speakers is reversed from long standing traditional thinking regarding Magico speakers. General consensus has been to spend twice on speakers as amplification. With Magico it's the opposite. Spend twice on amplification as what the speakers cost and you'll be on your way to getting it right.

Unless you hear Magico speakers in a dedicated listening room where every detail has been addressed you're probably not going to hear their potential. 

This is true of any good speaker. I'm shocked by what even cheap speakers can do when I put some effort into optimizing their placement in a reasonably well conditioned room. No, they don't sound like the Magicos, but they can do things I didn't think they could possibly do. I'd say 99% of the people who use them never know what they're actually capable of. With the cheap speakers, 99% probably don't care.