Magico speakers too clinical and fatiguing?

@tdudnyk 

could not believe what I was hearing in a 25K speaker

You mean that cheap or that expensive?

@tdudnyk 

I think he means that you need to spend over $50,000 to get a quality sound from an overpriced speaker and that same quality sound was available for $25,000.  Depends on how well your Wallet leather is stretched and then $25,000 does not become very expensive for a set of speakers.  

The dealer was playing the stretch maneuver by only displaying the very expensive speakers.  Actually in hopes that when you choose a lesser speaker you won't feel so awful about spending a lot of money.

As an A1 owner, I can understand why people have this opinion but what others said are correct.  At first, I thought they were hard to listen to.  But the two things that fixed everything were amplifier and setup.  I changed to a Pass amp and then took more time to adjust the setup vs where I first placed them.  They are great speakers and sound super realistic.  For me, they sound like the true instrument.

Magico are very good speakers they just need to be tone and match to your preference sound.

@emergingsoul 

that is not what I meant. The A5 is insanely cheap for the performance it provides. But it needs very very expensive upstream gear to get there. The A5 sounded way better than a 125k speaker I auditioned earlier in the day from another dealer. I was always trained that you spend the of your budget on speakers. With Magico, that is reversed. You spend the bulk of your budget on electronics. Too bad they are too industrial looking to put in a living room environment.