Magico S1

With 2 7" drivers?

Raj,

Yeah something like that I guess. Their "budget" line consists of a speaker made for a large room S5 with two 10"drivers and a small speaker S1 made for much smaller rooms. Seems like there is a hole in the middle. Maybe and updated V2/V3 build to the "S" line specification will fill that void.

Regarding amplifier sensitivity, I see that the S1 has a nominal impedance of 4 ohms, and presumably its impedance goes lower than that at some frequencies. Unless the variation of its impedance as a function of frequency is particularly small, the sonic presentation of a speaker having low impedance will vary considerably more depending on what amplifier is driving it than it would if the speaker had a higher impedance. Especially if one of the amps being tried is solid state (presumably having near zero output impedance), and the other is a tube model (which can be presumed to have significant output impedance)

That doesn't say anything either good or bad about the sonic quality, transparency, and musical resolution the speaker can provide when used with the right amplifier. It's just a consequence of impedance interactions, and perhaps also the current capability of the amplifier, and it just means that amplifier selection becomes more critical.

Regards,
-- Al

Along with the amp I would imagine speaker cable selection would be critical as well?

One thing I should mention about my audition of the S1 is that the deep bass was phenomenal. I played some pipe organ recordings with pedal tones in the 30 Hz range and it was very impressive for a 7" driver. However, I will say that the woofer was flapping like crazy to put out that kind of bass. Of 7 or 8 speakers I auditioned in the price range of $8k to $16k, the S1 had the best deep bass of them all.