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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The new old play…. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Model 6 loudspeakers. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
I do not subscribe audio publication but sometimes when my level of venomous hate goes down to dangerously low level I buy one at newsstand. The last night I saw October TAS magazine in Borders with a big picture of Magico speaker on the cover I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Some Magico history. by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]Magico started very fast from unknown brand to a very well known brand. They must have investors that they can afford the marketing (I guess). Family business manufacturers can not afford that, no matter how good their products a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Horns elementary school. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="JLH"]Foolishness is too soft a word to describe the unspeakable garbage the Magico Ultimate is. They have mis-matched impedance drivers, improperly sized horns for the drivers, and made everything from metal. Then they go on an attempt t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
When I meet Jonathan Valin I  laugh. Jonathan is soft-spoken, kind-mannered person who does not have that revolting attitude of a typical audio reviewer. Most of audio reviewers that I met behaved like idiots, claiming:  “the entire wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? by Romy the Cat on 2006-07-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
When I meet Jonathan Valin I  laugh. Jonathan is soft-spoken, kind-mannered person who does not have that revolting attitude of a typical audio reviewer. Most of audio reviewers that I met behaved like idiots, claiming:  “the entire wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
We, horn people, when we see as some kind of horn outsider begin to spill his foolishness about the horns inhalations, we always feel  that out territory was violated by a primitive brain who listen a box loudspeaker. The Absolute Sound, in its ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico: biological minded speakers by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: biological minded speakers in Audio News  1 Replies 
Let me to explain how it started. It is well know that being a Dentist is in a blood of any Jewish boy and Alon Wolf was no exception. When he was little, the local kids teased that he might grow up without a dentist license and the little Alon was r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: No Magico medal? by steverino on 2014-05-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
I didn't see Magico in Breuninger's Winners Circle in the link above. An oversight or an unhealthy bias against Taiko drums??As for Guy Sergeant's comment about the demo choices, I assume those kind of artificial sounding mixes are done on purpose as...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: Magico at Munich by Purite Audio on 2014-05-31 
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On Thursday ,trade day a variety of music was being played and you could just wander into the room, it was always busy, for the rest of the show he same handful of songs were played, the demonstration on ly lasted twenty minutes, such was the popular...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Some Magico history. by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-22 
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[quote user="Stitch"]Magico started very fast from unknown brand to a very well known brand. They must have investors that they can afford the marketing (I guess). Family business manufacturers can not afford that, no matter how good their products a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Tom Martin’s observations about Magico Ulitmate by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-28 
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I do not know who Tom Martin. He said that he runs The Absolute Sound and he apparently has power to delete my posts from TAS forum. I have finished with TAS forum – they fully indicated the level of the subject handling. Tom Martin however poste...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: the magico ultimo are not the best i heard by angeloitacare-idiot on 2007-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Orphean horns / BMS drivers in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
hi Dominic i made myself the same question regarding the high frequencies in the orphean horn. the reason is probably because this horn has no compression, and the horn length is not so deep, and the exit diameter is 2 inch, quit big. If you read my ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: The potential Magico owner only need the YouTube video by rowuk on 2014-05-29 
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[quote user="steverino"]But the prospective Magico owner needs to know whether the Magicos reproduce the real Taiko drum closely enough to scare and demoralize all the JDs in the neighborhood. It's like those recorded barking dogs that homeowners use...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #193: Some lessons from Magico Ultima installation. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Midbass Horns and Real Estate. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  247 Replies 
Stereotimes published an article describing an installation of one of the audio Shepherded person.  http://www.stereotimes.com/jimlangham.shtml (the audio Shepherded Type is described in here: http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeIte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: Magico horn bass modules by Romy the Cat on 2014-07-11 
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I was pitching before that to make a loudspeaker with integrated LF module you have no ethical right to charge more then let say $20K retail.  If you charge more then you have no mechanism to deliver anything for the money people pay. However, if you...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The Magico “Strategic Sound” and new drivers. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
Thanks for the link, el`Ol. The original Görlichs, when they still use aluminum layers were very interesting, thought they were soft suspended drivers that is not my cap of tea.  BTW, for whatever it worth the Magico new version does not use ADT...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico Model 6 loudspeakers. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-20 
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I heard today the Magico Model 6 loudspeakers about which the audio industry pimps of all calibers created so much stink lately. I did not have a chance to listen Magico extensively: a little guy who felt the he owed the room begun to jump in my ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? by AllHammer on 2006-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
This post has basically wiped out the entire reputation you have tried to build up in the past. Rebutting a review does not make yours right, and from my personal experiences, you are indeed far from right. I can see why some people will not agree wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Magico Ultimate II in Hong Kong by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-31 
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I do not know what fantasies Tom Martin and Robert Harley had but it looks to me  that Magico Ultimate II is very much the same as Magico Ultimate I, the prefix II mean a new round of marketing BS… Here are the pictures of the Ultimate’s installa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: i heard the magico ultimos. impressions by angeloitacare-idiot on 2007-01-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
I had the opportunity to hear the magico ultimo, in san Francisco. After i heard it, i read the article in absolute sound, and i must say that the article  describes accurately the sound of this system. The room is relatively small for that big ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: Surprisingly interesting write up by Federated Mike about Magico Ultim... by Romy the Cat on 2014-08-31 
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http://audiofederation.com/blog/2014/08/29/high-end-audio-munich-2014 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Magico Ultimate and Lamm ML3 by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I do not know what fantasies Tom Martin and Robert Harley had but it looks to me  that Magico Ultimate II is very much the same as Magico Ultimate I, the prefix II mean a new round of marketing BS… Here are the picture...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico new 5 ways idea. Review and Critiques by Romy the Cat on 2011-08-07 
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I was pointed out to the fact the Magico has a new idea of their 5 way horn-loaded speaker. I did review the Magico former 4-way project, it was very bad: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=2103 The new one l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: There are absolutely no accidents with it. by Romy the Cat on 2011-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The CES's 2011 horns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  21 Replies 
[quote user="jeff1225"]I never understood the affinity that the Germans have for heavy metal. Whenever you going into any of their rooms at CES (especially MBL), Slayer is playing at 130 DB. Maybe it's the modern interpretation of Wagner.[/quote] Jef...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: This is all very emblematic for audio herd. by Romy the Cat on 2012-12-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Holly Proscenium idiocy! in Analog Playback  23 Replies 
Stitch, you see, the presence of that unintelligent audio glitter  that run across web sites and drool saliva about that or this product is very unfortunate thing that actually makes very hard for  sensible audio people to get any more or less releva...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Born To Suffer by Stitch on 2012-02-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm ML2.2 and Mark the BS teller. in Audio Discussions  7 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] If you have a chance to hear Lamm ML2.0 then try them... [/quote]I wanted to do that, but they are so rare and I found nobody to visit.  But honestly, I am not so fanatic, I was looking for something which doesn't make me ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The Magico “Strategic Sound” and new drivers. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Mini or Jonathan Valin maxi? in Audio Discussions  21 Replies 
Thanks for the link, el`Ol. The original Görlichs, when they still use aluminum layers were very interesting, thought they were soft suspended drivers that is not my cap of tea.  BTW, for whatever it worth the Magico new version does not use ADT...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico Model 6 loudspeakers. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico Model 6 loudspeakers. in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
I heard today the Magico Model 6 loudspeakers about which the audio industry pimps of all calibers created so much stink lately. I did not have a chance to listen Magico extensively: a little guy who felt the he owed the room begun to jump in my ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Magico: Robert Harley’s upperbass mouth. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  35 Replies 
We, horn people, when we see as some kind of horn outsider begin to spill his foolishness about the horns inhalations, we always feel  that out territory was violated by a primitive brain who listen a box loudspeaker. The Absolute Sound, in its ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: I do not think so but sometime is does happen by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions .... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  36 Replies 
[quote user="steverino"]As for Guy Sergeant's comment about the demo choices, I assume those kind of artificial sounding mixes are done on purpose as are demos with dynamically or frequency limited demo material. [/quote] Hm, I would not be concern i...
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