Doug Schneider fra
SoundStage! Hi-Fi | SoundStageHiFi.com | The Best of CES 2013 har nettopp skrevet en artikkel om hva han mener var det beste på CES 2013. Det er selvfølgelig mange ting som han har lagt merke til, men jeg har her sakset ut den delen som handlet om Magico.
Magico had speakers showing in some eight rooms, but the system that most impressed me was centered around their new S1 ($12,600/pair), which, though certainly not cheap, is the company’s least expensive speaker yet. Up front were a Constellation amp and preamp, a proprietary music server that Magico’s Alon Wolf likes to tempt audiences with (he says he’ll never sell it), a Pacific Microsonics DAC, some MIT cables, and a rack of Magico’s design.
The S1 is a compact, two-way floorstander with a 7” woofer married to a 1” beryllium-dome tweeter, so you can’t expect 20Hz bass from it, or that it will charge up a really big room the way Magico’s bigger models do (the S5, Q5, and Q7). But the S1 did sound notably fleshed out in the low end, ultradetailed from the lowest notes it could hit right up through the highs, and quite neutral, the last a quality that’s long been a hallmark of Magico designs. And while the S1 probably isn’t intended for use in
very large rooms, it did work very well in Magico’s good-size room at CES. (The beefy 250Wpc Constellation Centaur amp behind the pair probably helped; the speakers never hinted at sounding strained.) This system was one of the best sounds I heard at CES 2013.
Her hos meg spiller S1 meget bra, selv om det garantert er ennå mere å hente ved å sette inn bedre produkter i resten av kjeden. Har spilt Era flere ganger i dag og lydbildet er storslagent.
Mvh Morten