Magico M9 vs. Magico Ultimate 3 Horn- Box vs. Horn! Which will be better? In which ways?

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More people here commenting on sound of Lamm have heard Lamm. Few have heard the Magico horn.

Yes, but it is not relevant at all to the main original subject - the drift of Alon Wolf away from horn speakers.

 

[PeterA]

Yes, but it is not relevant at all to the main original subject - the drift of Alon Wolf away from horn speakers.

I appreciate that you conceded my point. Thank you.

 

[morricab]

Yes, but it is not relevant at all to the main original subject - the drift of Alon Wolf away from horn speakers.

Well, he only ever made the one reference speaker, albeit with a couple generations of improvements. There was never any trickle down into his “normal” speakers. Either he was unsatisfied with his huge horn but didn’t know how to take it further or he couldn’t bring out a version for mere mortals and it was a dead end one off statement piece.

I heard his horn twice in Munich and there was some real potential even though I felt using Pass Labs SS amps to drive it was not the best choice and held back that potential. It easily surpassed any of his conventional speakers I have heard…I haven’t heard M9 but it looks like more of the same just bigger.

Ironically, I found one of his earlier large speakers in wood cabinets (M1 or M3 maybe?) to be more enjoyable than the later metal cabinet speakers.

 

[PeterA]

Well, he only ever made the one reference speaker, albeit with a couple generations of improvements. There was never any trickle down into his “normal” speakers. Either he was unsatisfied with his huge horn but didn’t know how to take it further or he couldn’t bring out a version for mere mortals and it was a dead end one off statement piece.

I heard his horn twice in Munich and there was some real potential even though I felt using Pass Labs SS amps to drive it was not the best choice and held back that potential. It easily surpassed any of his conventional speakers I have heard…I haven’t heard M9 but it looks like more of the same just bigger.

Ironically, I found one of his earlier large speakers in wood cabinets (M1 or M3 maybe?) to be more enjoyable than the later metal cabinet speakers.

I think you may mean the early M5, a large wood enclosure and follow up speaker to the Mini. It sold for $90k and proceeded the Q5. I heard it and thought it was superb.