MAGICO Q3 USD34,000.-
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDecember 21, 2010Berkeley, California USA
MAGICO INTRODUCES THE Q3
Magico LLC, the leader in high-performance loudspeaker design and manufacture, is
proud to announce the unveiling of its newest loudspeaker, the Magico Q3: a 5-
driver, 3-way floorstander housed in a fully-braced, fully-damped, aluminum and
brass, hard-anodized enclosure. Featuring a complete set of Magico-designed
drivers including the 3 new 7 Nano-Tec® woofers that have been developed to
deliver overall system efficiency of 90 dB; the Q3 is the first Magico loudspeaker to
achieve this sensitivity rating. This allows the Q3 to be satisfactorily powered by
high quality amplifiers with as few as 30 Watts.
The Q3 builds upon the proven concept of the Q platform first developed for the
award-winning Q5, which was the first Magico product to take advantage of
complete in-house control of all design and build variables. The Q3 continues this
tradition.
A true three-way design, the three new woofers are complemented by a 6 Nano-
Tec midrange and the MBe-1® Beryllium dome tweeter. Together, these drivers
represent Magicos continued pursuit of developing and implementing the world's
finest loudspeaker drivers.
Being very reminiscent of the larger Q5, one comes to expect that it is merely a
scaled down version of the same speaker. In many respects this is accurate; the
MBe-1 high frequency driver, the continuous curve of our diffraction-minimizing
baffle, and the substantial collar-locking isolation foot are among the many things
that the two models share. However, because the dimensions and layouts of the
boxes differ, as well as the driver behavior and resultant crossover implementation,
the Q3 has different critical points and frequencies of resonance. To address this, a
modified version of the damping employed in the Q5 is applied in specific areas of
need. Varying levels of force are applied to multiple thicknesses of damping
materials to affect the elimination of distortion-causing resonance across the entire
audioband.
The Magico Q3 is a unique statement of purposeit firmly demonstrates the goals
of our company and our relation to the industry as a whole. It is an extension of
our design approach, most fully realized now due to the foundation we have worked
relentlessly to establish. Standing on the shoulders of our many technological
breakthroughs we have been able to overcome all restrictions; from production
feasibility to market feasibility, the Q3 forces neither manufacturer nor consumer to
compromise. In the end it is in both of our interests to continue to research the
ways in which technology can be used in the service of music. If and when it is
properly employed, the results are enough to surprise even us.
Magico will be demonstrating the Q3 at CES 2011 in Las Vegas, in the Magico Suite:
Venetian Towers, Suite 35-209.
SPECIFICATIONS
Driver Complement
1 x 1 MBe-1 Tweeter
1 x 6 Nano-Tec Midrange
3 x 7 Nano-Tec Bass
Sensitivity: 90dB
Impedance: 5 Ohms
Frequency Response: 26 Hz 50 KHz
Minimum Power: 30 Watts
Dimensions: 47 H x 16 D x 10.5 W (119cm x 41cm x 27cm)
Weight: 250 lbs. (113 kg)
PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
The introductory US retail price of the Magico Q3 is $34,000/pr. Delivery will begin
in the Spring of 2011.
MAGICO Q5 USD59,500.-
Magico LLC, the leader in high-performance loudspeaker design and manufacture, is proud to announce the unveiling of its newest loudspeaker, the Magico Q5: a 5-driver, 4-way floorstander housed in a fully-braced, fully-damped, aluminum and brass, hard-anodized enclosure. The Q5 is the first Magico product to feature complete in-house control of all design and build variables. From the outside, the Q5's form is indicative of its functionpure and simple, rigid and unbiased. Although not significantly larger than our own V3, its total weight is nearly 400 lbs. The enclosure, machined entirely from aluminum and brass at our new facility, achieves a balance of mass and stiffness which had, up until now, been prohibited by the cost associated with such an undertaking. Processed individually to ensure coverage of every face and edge, each outer surface is first polished then finished in our recognizable hard anodized finish.
The entire enclosure is an expression of all of our past and present functional and aesthetic design choices.
From the inside, the Q5 reveals the challenges involved in actually designing and assembling a properly built aluminum enclosure. The coordination between our engineers, machinists, and technicians cannot falter due to the amount of interdependence between every component. The frame architecture alone is made from over 50 individually machined parts, all of which must be aligned, fastened, and assembled in a particular sequence. A single side wall contains nearly 100 threaded holes and before the baffle is even affixed, the cabinet itself already contains over 350 fasteners. A variance of greater than .002" can contribute to a "tolerance stack" large enough to prevent an enclosure from being completed without being disassembled first. It takes nearly a week to assemble a pair.
Continuing our pursuit of developing and implementing the world's finest loudspeaker drivers, we are also proud to introduce a new tweeter, the MBe-1™ Recent advances in break-up mode control of Beryllium diaphragms combined with our own MR-1™ motor system led to the development of the MBe-1. The result is a tweeter with significantly wider extension, lower distortion and greater power handling. Magico-designed Nano-Tec™ drivers complete the Q5 driver array with two 9 woofers, a 9 mid-bass unit, and a 6 midrange to deliver the full frequency range. Numerous new developments have been made on other fronts as well, including a unique Bass Mechanical Resonance Cancellation (BMRC™) system which allows us to acoustically cancel break-up modes by precisely offsetting the bass drivers' acoustical center and angle.
Specification:
Four-way, sealed-box, floorstanding loudspeaker.
Drive-units: 1" (25mm) beryllium-dome tweeter, 6" (152mm) Nano-Teccone midrange unit, 9" (228mm) Nano-Tec-cone midbass unit, two 9" Nano-Teccone woofers.
Frequency response (in-room): 22Hz50kHz, ±2dB. Sensitivity: 87dB/2.83V/m.
Nominal impedance: 4 ohms.
Recommended power: 501200Wpc.
Dimensions: 47" (1194mm) H by 11.75" (298mm) W by 21" (533mm) D. Weight: 387 lbs (176kg) each.
Finish: Black-anodized aluminum.
Price: $59,950/pair
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