Speaker Thoughts - YG Acoustics Hailey 2.2 vs Magico S5 MK II

@fsmithjack 

I know, but keithr agreed with you, so I can't say I follow his reasoning

That Focal tweeter is bright and raw. It throws haymakers. I love it. Although, I did not love it with my Soulution 530 or my Pass Labs 160.8’s. It just needs a bit of a chill pill. 
That chill pill came in the form of a Ypsilon Phaethon with it’s hybrid tube-transistor linestage that rocks a pair of 6H30 operating in single-ended Class A for both the input stage and the driver stage. Its output is “bridged, single-ended” also biased in Class A. It’s a different way to do it. So they make the amp a push pull amp to drive tougher speakers but it’s very different. Rather then just making a push pull amp the make separate single ended amps and run them in opposites bridged to come up with their own version of push pull. A single ended amp with real balls.  Needless to say it is a very elegant, purist approach. It’s not just super super transparent with its powerful mosfets it’s also buttery tube singled ended smooth. Both these attributes dial the beryllium tweeter right into its wheel house. That bright, raw inverted metal dome tweeter is now silky smooth and combo with its extension and decays are just killer. Audio really is about partnering the gear just right. I think the Magico’s would partner well with most. They were great with the Soulution and the Pass Labs. They were great with the Ypsilon too but the Focal and Ypsilon that there has a ceiling that seems to still be climbing. 

 Was just saying that both Magico and YG can sound polite. 

Sure - makes sense. I am not nearly as familiar with YG. They seems pretty awesome though. 

MAGICO is more musical,better bass detail and dynamics cleaner midrange and better highs.These speaker sound even better with tube preamp(VAC) or tube phono stage which i have TW ACUTIC RPS 100 one of the best.

I don’t know about better bass? Magico is not a bass centric speaker. YG’s have some pretty good slam. I’m not sure about Dynamics or highs either. Now it’s matter what speaker your talking. If your taking S, Q or M series. The S and Q are Very different animals compared to M’s 

The other day I listened to a pair of Alexia 2’s with D’agastino monos with a VAC master preamp and that was some nice slam! Those thing can bring it! Legit bring it! 

Thats great however your speakers are MUCH more musical and much better.

How do you compare Q and S to M.

Not mine - those are not mine. I wish. I just heard them at a guys house that I bought a VAC integrated from. I own the lowly Focal Sopra 2’s. I happen to love them and sold my Magico S5 MKII’s because I like them better but still I’m not claiming them to be better then Magico or YG. They are just best for me and for now at that. I tend to change them more then I should but I am smitten by them. 

My self I like the S MKII’s better then the Q’s and the M’s are insane. All the criticism the S and Q’s had vaporized into thin air with the M3 and up. Magico has evolved immensely with the M’s. Way out of my league. 

I have the Q3s and in my house in Florida i have M3 the M3 are more open etc this being said i still love my Q3s .

You have the Q’s and M’s. That’s some serious speakerage there. Nothing ever in the world is build better then a Q series Magico. Never before it or after it. Tenth degree and then some. Build like a tank doesn’t do them justice. Tanks wish they were built that well. All Magico’s sound great - they have never made a bad speaker ever. Even the old birth wood ones sound fantastic. The mini changed the speaker world forever. The M series - that’s a new level for Magico. That semi-constipaded sound is gone - the air and openness and unrestricted dynamics I think is just is so good they never quite got there before but their flag is planted there now!