Magico speakers too clinical and fatiguing?

@tdudnyk I can hear what you described on my system that cost a 10th of that. It's a myth that you have to spend 50K or 25K on just one component to get all that. But to each their own

@grislybutter IMO you're overly obsessed with the cost of components. A HEA system consists of many components including the room. Focus on complete system synergy not just the cost of an individual component. The Magico A5 is potentially one of the best box speakers under $30k if implemented correctly.

Try Vandersteen speakers

Potentially, anything labeled accurate is not musical. What good is accuracy if there is no musical enjoyment in the listing room. Then you have to throw thousands more dollars to fix the problem. My test for musicality is if I find myself toe-taping. 

How can there be such a thing as a speaker that is too accurate? The goal of high end audio is to present the music exactly as it was performed/recorded. Of course this is never achieved in reality. At the end, we all have our personal bias as to what we want to hear. Like it or not, that is distortion.

No one here is really in pursuit of perfection. We want to hear our preferred version of deviation from reality. That is why so many spend large sums of money in pursuit of an unachievable goals. Me (not speaking for anyone else) have jumped off that wagon and convinced myself that at my skill and hearing level, I am happy with my modest system. It is so much better than what was available to me in the 70's that I no longer feel the need. Laves me a lot of disposable cash for other fun stuff.