Descrição
CONDIÇÃO: 9/10
TIPO: TORRE
NUMERO DE CAIXAS: 2
4 vias
Four-way, sealed-box, floorstanding loudspeaker. Drive-units: 1″ (25mm) beryllium-dome tweeter, 6″ (152mm) Nano-Tec–cone midrange unit, 9″ (228mm) Nano-Tec-cone midbass unit, two 9″ Nano-Tec–cone woofers. Frequency response (in-room): 22Hz–50kHz, ±2dB. Sensitivity: 87dB/2.83V/m. Nominal impedance: 4 ohms. Recommended power: 50–1200Wpc. Dimensions: 47″ (1194mm) H by 11.75″ (298mm) W by 21″ (533mm) D. Weight: 387 lbs (176kg) each
Conclusion
Overall, the Magico Q5 was the smoothest, most detailed, least mechanical-sounding speaker I’ve heard. It sounded that way at what I used to think were impossibly low levels, and it sounded that way at uncomfortably loud levels, leading me to believe that a pair of these relatively compact speakers could easily fill a very big room. Its micro- and macrodynamic capabilities were unlimited, with the exception of the bottom octaves, where they lacked visceral punch. But elsewhere in the audioband, I never wanted more of anything, though a little less in the upper octaves might have produced a more accurate balance, if perhaps not as much pleasure.
If you listen exclusively or mostly to acoustic music, you’ll find the Magico Q5 sets new standards in many areas of speaker performance—transparency, resolution of low-level detail, and freedom from boxy colorations—the Q5’s overall freedom from obvious colorations and mechanical artifacts and its audible lack of “box” put it in a league of its own, in my experience. The Q5 imposed on familiar recordings the least amount of its own personality, and overall had the least “sound,” of any speaker I’ve heard. It was chameleon-like in that regard, and its ability to produce pleasing sound with even poor recordings was in no way due to its homogenizing the input signal—in fact, quite the opposite. It revealed more variations in recording quality, yet somehow, even the poor ones were made more bearable, perhaps because they didn’t trigger mechanical artifacts inherent in the speaker—much as the best turntables seem to suppress pops, clicks, and other record defects.
As a work of industrial art, the Magico Q5 is beautiful, though to some it might look cold and uninvolving. But that’s a more personal issue than the sound itself. When you first listen to it, the Q5 may also sound uninvolving because it has little or no personality of its own. But in a loudspeaker, that’s what you want. The longer I listened, the more I appreciated the Q5’s ability to get out of the way and let the recording’s own personality assert itself.
I can’t imagine anyone who’s in this game for the music and not the gear, and who’s okay with the Q5’s subtler bottom octaves, who wouldn’t want to own a pair of Magico Q5s—particularly if they listen mostly or exclusively to acoustic music.
