Magico A5 Speakers
Consensus among critics;
- The Absolute Sound: High-End Loudspeaker of the Year. The citation declared, “The scale of dynamics and sense of mass are staggering considering the overall size and price…. an easy choice for our High-End Loudspeaker of the Year.”
- Stereophile: Component of the Year (overall). “When I rapped my knuckles against the cabinet to try to detect cabinet resonances, I hurt my knuckles.” wrote Jim Austin. “The only appreciable vibrations I noticed were in my bones.”
- Stereophile: Loudspeaker of the Year (second year in a row). Jim Austin wrote, “Consistently a joy. The Magico A5's could be my musical companions for a long, happy life.”
- SoundStage! Australia: Outstanding Performance award. Reviewer Edgar Kramer cited the A5’s “capability to offer tonally accurate, powerfully dynamic, realistically immediate, precisely resolute and thoroughly enjoyable music.”
- Hi-Fi News & Record Review: Outstanding Product Award
- Hi Fi Review (Hong Kong): Product of the Year
- Sound and Vision (Hong Kong): Editor’s Choice Award
- AVF Line HK: Product of the Year
- HDAV China: Best Buy Award
The new Magico A5 is a flagship A-Series model (3 way / 5 driver design) which incorporates the company’s first 5-inch pure midrange driver as well as enhanced midrange and bass driver cone technology. These new advanced cones achieve an unprecedented stiffness-to-weight ratio, a key parameter that Magico has pursued over the past 15 years. The massive, sealed enclosure of the A5 is formed entirely of 6061-T6 aircraft-grade aluminum, the same material, and construction methods as in Magico’s acclaimed Q-Series. Complex internal bracing helps stiffen the entire enclosure and minimize unwanted resonances and colorations, allowing all drivers to perform with stunning resolution and dynamics. The A5 is finished in an elegant brushed black anodized aluminum with grilles available separately as an option. “The A-Series has been a great success in reaching a wider audience,” says Magico’s founder, Alon Wolf. “The A5 builds on that success with a new 5-inch midrange of extraordinary musicality. And the A5 ‘plays larger,’ with powerfully extended dynamic range.”
The 9” bass drivers in the A5 feature a newly enhanced version of Magico’s Graphene Nano-Tech cones. Graphene, a hexagonal lattice of carbon and in relation to its thickness, is about 100 times stronger than the strongest high-carbon steel. The new cone design combines Graphene layered carbon fiber with advanced new core materials to achieve the highest possible stiffness to weight ratio. Extensive computer simulation and prototype testing allow engineering to create the driver chassis frame with an ideal combination of stiffness and damping, with minimal acoustical contribution and maximized airflow. The new bass driver incorporates oversized components including a 5-inch pure Titanium voice coil and huge copper cap with ½” of linear excursion. The super-stabilized magnetic field enables the A5 to output thundering levels of bass, producing 115 dB SPL (@ 50 Hz, 1 meter), while maintaining very low distortion and inductance below 0.18 mH. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) provides Magico engineers with a single platform to assess acoustical, mechanical, electromagnetic, and thermal properties. This meticulous testing helps minimize distortions in the frequency and time domains.
The new 5-inch full-cone midrange driver enables wider dispersion and greater midrange transparency. Like the bass driver, the midrange also incorporates an advanced Graphene carbon fiber sandwich cone. A new foam surround helps achieve ideal cone/surround integration, faster settling time, and impressively low distortion. The all-new motor system features a pure Titanium voice coil that operates in a super-stabilized magnetic field with a pure copper pole cap to minimize eddy currents and maximize efficiency. This latest midrange driver design truly sets a new benchmark of measured performance. A dedicated sub-enclosure houses the midrange driver, protecting it from the extensive back wave energy of the bass drivers.
The tweeter dome is based on the fundamental design platform and geometry of the M-Series tweeters and shared with the other A-Series models; the tweeter incorporates a pure beryllium-diaphragm with an optimized 28-mm dome. Magico encases the customized neodymium motor system in an engineered back chamber with the company’s most advanced damping materials. This enables ultra-low distortion, high power handling, massive dynamic capabilities, and extended linear voice coil movement.
The A5 will be the first product in the world to offer Mundorf’s new M-Resist Ultra foil resistors. Now perfected after years of development, the new resistors deliver greater power handling, transparency, and liquidity. The Elliptical Symmetry Crossover topology acoustically integrates all five drivers using a full complement of state-of-the-art components from Mundorf EB Gmbh of Cologne, Germany. The 3-way network features a 24 dB per octave Linkwitz-Riley filter that maximizes frequency bandwidth while preserving phase linearity and minimizing intermodulation distortion.
Reviews
Consensus. The Magico A5 is the most acclaimed hi-end loudspeaker in the world
In June 2021, Jeff Fritz reviewed the floor standing A5 for SoundStage! Ultra. The Magico A5 also received a Reviewers’ Choice award and is now being recognized with a Recommended Reference Component award as well. read the article
"The Magico A5 is the best deal in high-end loudspeakers today
"The imaging is the first thing I noticed about the A5. These speakers don't only disappear under optimal conditions; they disappear always"
Off-axis imaging was exceptional, too. I could move my chair to any point between the two speakers and still hear a stable stereo soundstage. I've heard otherwise excellent speakers that can't do this off-axis imaging trick, some of them quite expensive"
In-room measurement by John Atkinson: "I can't recall measuring an in-room response this good!"
Specifications
- Driver Complement 1” Tweeter (x1), 5” Graphene Nano-Tec Midrange (x1), 9” Graphene Nano-Tec Bass (x3)
- Sensitivity: 88dB
- Impedance: 4 Ohm
- Frequency Response: 24 Hz – 50 kHz
- Recommended Power: 50-1000 watts
- Dimensions: 10.5” (W) x 14.9” (D) x 44.75” (H)
- Weight: 180 lbs.
