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“The reason why the KEF LS50 Wireless is so important is that it’s an ambitious project that is correctly realised. A lot of companies have notebooks filled with similarly ambitious projects that never got past the late-night brainstorming session. A handful got as far as making a testbed sample in the lab, but the project was stopped because no-one could ever quite join all the dots. KEF is one of the very few companies that went the distance, and delivered a fine end result in the process. Dozens and dozens of hours into my own listening and the LS50 Wireless is still getting better, too”
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“I’d seen somewhere that Alon Wolf has described the S3s as occupying the “sweet spot” of the entire Magico loudspeaker line—a product range that begins with the $16,500 S1 and ascends to the $229,000 Q7 MkII, a product that’s obviously out of reach to all but a tiny number of individuals. I asked Wolf to elaborate. “I’m fully aware of the price categories that our products are in,” he said. “Although I know that we give incredible value for the price, knowing how much it costs to actually build these things, it does become a different market above a certain number, which is around $30,000”

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“The Special Forty is in step with the trend of shrinking high-end speakers size, and this speaker might be the best one yet for its size. Tonally, the Special Forty is smooth and easy, but as I continued to listen it was the speakers’ clarity and resolution that made the biggest impressions.”

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“If done successfully you will have upgraded the .7 to a very much improved version, the homemade .7 Extreme, let’s say. Everything about the performance improves, and I should not have to spend much time discussing that concept; you will either believe me or not. Let those who trust my system-building instincts consider this upgrade – and the potential risks – and capture a better performance from the .7.”

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“Magico is at the bleeding edge of technological development, but it might need to slow that pace down a little in future. The S1 became the S1 Mk II in around three years, and there is nothing in the way of an upgrade path. The improvements made in this version change are major, and in most loudspeaker brands those major changes would occur every five to eight years. It seems counter-intuitive to suggest slowing technological progress, but those who buy products with one eye on their resale value will find such a rapid churn of design difficult to reconcile. I’d really want the jump from Mk II to Mk III to be as substantial as the one from Mk I to Mk II, but I think I’d prefer to see that product in 2022 rather than 2020. But that’s Magico, for you: uncompromising in every respect.”

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I was expecting refinement and the sort of poise that a loudspeaker of this pedigree would deliver. In this regard, the Beethoven Baby Grands don’t disappoint, but there’s more to these Austrian floorstanders than simply sounding divine with a well-recorded piano concerto or laid-bare acoustic material.”