Magico's M9

@brianlucey A5 is entry level and at 25k there’s only about $5000 left to build the speakers in terms of manufacturing. There’s just not enough meat of the bones.

Jay’s audio puts forward all this extremely expensive gear and doesn’t really talk about it. What makes it so great? He doesn’t seem to have any technical expertise or willingness to share it. The continual sound comparisons and teasing is difficult to comprehend. No one can hear her a difference it’s ridiculous

Personally I’d like to learn about this gear, but his website doesn’t come through.

Clearly all this ultra high end gear is extremely overpriced. And only serves to elevate pricing of lower tier gear which is a strategy.

Audio gear sales our way down, surprising audio research has made it this far.

I know everyone is sick of hearing about this

But you made a post about it anyway. Was that useful, you think?

FWIW, I heard the Magico M6 ($172,000/pair) at AXPONA last year. They sounded absolutely stellar — best sound of the show, along with the Avantgarde Trio G3 horns and the Focal Maestros.

That kind of quality costs money. Never heard the M9s but I have no problem believing their performance is a level or two above that of the M6s. It’s worth it to some of us. So what? Why do you care? If the price of a product offends you, don’t buy it.

I mean, I’d love to drive a Bugatti but I won’t/can’t plunk down a million dollars for it. Doesn’t mean I’ll go complain about its price on an automotive forum.

For me, a Bugatti isn’t in the cards, but I’m glad supercars exist, pushing the performance envelope. So it is with the M9s. If the M9s aren’t for you (based on price alone), fair enough, but why would that matter to us — or to Magico — in the slightest? It’s not interesting and it’s not relevant.

@emergingsoul 

"Jay’s audio puts forward all this extremely expensive gear and doesn’t really talk about it. What makes it so great? He doesn’t seem to have any technical expertise or willingness to share it. The continual sound comparisons and teasing is difficult to comprehend. No one can hear her a difference it’s ridiculous"

Well said! He's not an audio guru, he's an entrepreneur.

roxy54

... He's not an audio guru, he's an entrepreneur.

I think that's true of almost all of the YouTube crowd. They seek to be "influencers." Jay had a really aggressive, promotional thread on A'gon, which he shut down after he attracted critics, which he just could not abide. There's a thread now where the guy who runs ASR is vigorously defending himself. He has to work really hard at it and it isn't a pretty sight.