I'd love to get my speaker designer back in-room again, now that I've taken things to where they are and (in my mind) dealt with room issues that had been in the way.
I would expect that he could wring a little more blood from the turnip.
AGreed
@microstrip
General population? That is one of the fallacy that drives the business side of our hobby. Thinking that audiophiles hearing abilities are , allow me this neologism, superiorly different to the "General Population". We're not especially when it comes to children and women who hears things we, the mostly 50 and more, physiologically can't ... and they are not audiophiles... Can safely advance that last part with no fear of being wrong.
@everybody
Now back to Magico. They seem to have a marvelous speaker in the M3 if it weren't for my new enthusiasm about horns, I would have been pleased to wait for one of myfavorites speaker the Q3 to fall in price while people are replacing them with M3.
About Jim Smith , I like the way he approaches things and share his philosophy on Sound Reproduction in the Home. I also do believe in subwoofer and prefer to use them as I have stated a billion times, with full range speakers rather than with mini-monitor however potent some of these may appear to be in the low bass..
@AL. M.
Hearing differently at the physiological level doesn't mean that there aren't things we like in commonality. I do understand the preferences. I do understand that we prioritize... I do know however that one thing we tend to like is correct bass reproduction. It could well be physiological too. The truth , very few know what correct bass is about and the education can be jolting, unsettling .. then it dawn on the listener, it is understood at a deep level that once the bass is correctly reproduced , the rest of the reproduction tend to take a new level of realism, of believability... Truism: Once the foundation is laid then everything else falls into place. correct bass is that foundation.