Wilson Alexx V

Dear @carey1110  : "   Yes I’m a Wilson fan. "

My mistake/Iwas wrong because I was thinking that a gentleman looking for the kind of quality level of a speaker as Wilson his main target should be MUSIC and its quality level home reproduction.

I'm fan of MUSIC not fan of any kind of hardware that's need it to enjoy MUSIC at the best/high quality levels we can get  and you can get that " best " with other hardware options but go a head with what makes you happy.

Sorry to disturb you with all my posts that certainly were not for an audiophile as you.

Nothing wrong , each one of us has our unique targets, priorities and preferences.

R.

Dear @carey1110 : Other great advantage to own/buy that posted last alternative is that you can choose between different mid/high frequency ranges monitors where you can find out in an " easy " way the kind of sound reproduction ( in that frequency range ) you are looking for.

You can listen different monitors coming not only from the manufacturers I posted the links but many others very good options out there.
Even in the future if you like a new monitor model for any speaker manufacturer you can buy it and you can sold/sale the ones you own a lot more easy that any of those expensive big speakers.

Other advantage is that your main amplifier or amplifiers not only will increment its headroom but that will performs way better " looking " only the easy mid/high frequency ranges and not the bass range that even in the amp intrude in the quality sound level and distortion levels of any amplifier.

Obviously that everything is up to you.

R.

Dear @carey1110 : Other alternatives can be: Focal where @albertporter can chime because he owns these top speakers and Tidal is other good option as could be Sonus Faber:

https://www.focal.com/en/home-audio/high-fidelity-speakers/utopia-iii-evo/floorstanding-speakers/gra...

https://www.sonusfaber.com/en/products/aida/

http://www.laassoluta.com/intro.htm


So Wilson or Magico are not alone out there and exist other options that not only can compete but even outpermos it.

The speakers market offer is truly wide open from the " humble " ones to the " dream " designs.

A totally diferent but good " humble " option are a very good small monitors along a pair of good designed self powered subwoofer with an external Xover crossing at around 80hz-90hz. Here one of this alternative:

https://www.kerracoustic.com/k300

with this Xover:

https://www.fmacoustics.com/products/electronic-crossovers/fm-330-series/

these could be the subs, these are a true subwoofer:

https://www.evolutionacoustics.com/loudspeakers/mini-series/minisub/?doing_wp_cron=1615566000.556648...

I can tell you that this last option could even or outperfors the V or the Magico, at least has the rigth characteristics and really good overall designs to do it.

R.

Dear @carey1110 : Other than in this thread in other coming from you you asked for Wilson vs Magico so you are looking for speakers at these quality level performance.

I think that no one can really argue against Wilson or Magico quality that’s it’s not only reflected in its prices but in its intrinsecal performance levels.

I look and had at my place the " born " of the Watt " small/big " monitor that was just a " new " world for speaker design ( at least for Wilson Audio. ) was a departure from the other extreme where were the very well regarded WAMMs.

Then came the Puppies to mate the Watts because something was not there: wider bass range.

From those old times I started to learn about good designs of small monitors ( as the Watts. ) mated for a pair of self powered subwoofers and learned that these combination it’s truly hard if not imposible to beats specially in the critical bass frequency range.

WEilson never took that speaker design alternative and for very good reasons: they have a wide number of owners of their top big speakers but other speaker manufacturers did it as Evolution Acoustics.

@mikelavigne  owns its flagship model with that critical design characteristic: integrated self powered bass frequency range. Maybe he can chime here  to help you.
Here you can see his set up:

https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/615#&gid=1&pid=7

and here you can take a look to the diferent models where maybe the M3 could help you:

https://www.evolutionacoustics.com/?doing_wp_cron=1615494785.5244429111480712890625#Loudspeakers

The key at this speaker quality level performance belongs to the difference in the bass range true quality levels because as better the overtall bass frequency range as better the overall speaker quality level performance because it’s the bass frequency range and its developed harmonics whom modulates all the speaker listen quality performance and does not exist any single passive full range speaker that can outperform an active one and it does notmatters the amps in those passive speakers. Difference is that in the active speakers the frequency bass range is hadled by dedicated amplifiers designed to fulfill the woofers needs characterisitcs.

When buying any speakers in that price range listen it before/each one is mandatory.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.