All New Magico A5 Loudspeakers // Biggest "BANG" For Your BUCK On The Market ?!

I've heard both the Magico A3 and the A5's.  Both speakers sound great to me.  Though I wouldn't trade my incredible Revel Salon 2 speakers for either pair.  There's a multitude of wonderful sounding speakers out there, by a multitude of different manufacturers, and the aforementioned are just a few of them.  The beauty of High End Audio is, you get to pick your pleasure.    

We pick KMD Orchestalls Reference speakers until we die ! Once heard you might just be hooked for life...Axpona 2023 Show

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I've see the KMD speakers on-line on Youtube and they are very impressive looking and sounding through my computer speakers.  Very impressive.  I'd love to hear them in person.  KMD was a no-show at T.H.E. Show last month.  Hopefully, KMD with have am exhibit at the Pacific Audio Fest, which I will attend at the end of this month (July).     

I heard the A5 hooked up to some huge Gryphon amps at a local dealership.  I thought the sound was decent--typical of many such high end speakers--they image extremely well, particularly with respect to front- to back image placement specificity, they sound detailed and clean and smooth (no harsh peaks in the frequency response).  To my taste they were on the slightly lean side (needed a bit more in the upper bass region), but not disagreeably lean.  What they lacked most, to me, is what almost all low efficiency speakers lack--the ability to sound alive and vibrant at lower listening levels, and an overall lack in dynamic ability such that they were a touch "lifeless" unless cranked up a bit.  Whether this is a characteristic of such speakers or the kinds of amplifiers needed for such speakers, I don't know, and it really doesn't matter; I like the dynamics and low-volume capability of high-efficiency speakers and low-powered amps.

Speakers vary so much in sound characteristics that it is possible for one to favor a very cheap speaker over a mega-buck system if the cheap speaker just happens to fit one's basic preference profile.  This does NOT mean the mega-buck speaker is a failure or rip-off, it just means it is not suited to your taste.  An audition is the only way to determine if it is to ones taste and worth the money.  

Just go out and hear the A5 it’s drivers and cabinet and Xover are magnitudes better then most . Those World class Mundorf Ultra Copper foil resistors are the best most linear resistors in the world $30 each ,slightly better then the very close Path audio resistors . I use these Ultra resistors in my Duelund Loudspeaker purifiers and they truly clean up the signal , sometimes you actually do get what you pay for !!