MAGICO Q5 Dream Speakers

This amazing pair of Magico Q5 in Anodized black
finish won’t last long.

Jonathan Valin loved these loudspeakers in his review
as did many others. 

"For all my adult life as an audiophile, I have
been searching for just such a speaker—one that would have the speed, low distortion,
high resolution, lack of “boxiness,” transparency to sources, and (when those
sources permitted) the extraordinarily high level of realism of a great ribbon
or ’stat without the inevitable downsides of a ribbon or ’stat—without the
membrane-excursion-and-mass limits that reduce dynamic range on the loud side
(and, with planars, sometimes on the soft one), without the low-bass limits
(also membrane-size, dipole-dispersion, and excursion-related) that keep
something like the otherwise great 3.7 from reproducing flat bass below 45Hz
(and the Logan CLXes below 55Hz), without the thinness of image that can make
many planars and ’stats sound as if instruments are painted on the canvas of
their panels, rather than standing freely in space like the three-dimensional
objects they are. Here, in the Q5, is that very speaker."

"No other speaker I’ve had in
house, including the great M5, can reproduce a piano like, oh, the Bösendorfer
on the superb Nova recording of Paul Dessau’s First Piano Sonata with such
lifelike realism, top to bottom, with such an unstinting combination of
ribbon-like speed and delicacy and cone-like authority and solidity that it
sounds as if the instrument (albeit naturally somewhat reduced in size) is
sitting there in front of you. Every nuance of the pianist’s touch, every
aspect of the piano’s action (from keys to hammers to the little microtonal
vibrations of the strings when they are sounded, sustained, or damped), every
quality of pitch, timbre, intensity, and duration that you hear in life are
reproduced with a clarity and realism that make many other large multiway
dynamic speakers sound downright smeared and opaque.”

"It goes without saying that the Q5s are virtual wizards at
separating out the timbres of hard-to-distinguish instruments playing en masse
at the same pitches and the same dynamics (I mentioned several examples of this
“sorting hat” magic in my Issue 213 review of the Technical Brain electronics,
which, BTW, are the almost ideal companions for these ultra-transparent
loudspeakers). They do the same trick with hard-to-decipher lyrics, the
harmonies of backup singers and choirs, overdubs, the splicing in of different
takes (several of which I’d never noted before in numbers from Stop Making
Sense)."

SPECIFICATIONS:

Finish:
Black-anodized aluminum

Type: 
Four-way, five-driver, sealed-enclosure, floorstanding
loudspeaker

Driver Complement:
Two
9" Nano-Tec-cone woofers, one 9" Nano-Tec-cone mid/bass, one 6"
Nano-Tec-cone midrange, one 1" beryllium-dome tweeter

Frequency Response:
18Hz-50kHz
(+/- 3dB)

Minimum Power Required:
50W

Dimensions:
11.8 x 47 x 12.5"

Weight (net):
420 lbs. each

* Free shipping with asking price

* Payment Accepted: Wire Transfer, Bank Check, Personal Check


Info Link: http://magico.net/product/q5.php

Contact info:
[email protected]
(303) 264-8831