My apologies for this being a bit off-topic, but as the gang here is interested in speaker design, development, manufacturing, and assembly, I thought I'd share a photo the gang might find of interest.
Yesterday, my local audio club, San Francisco Audiophile Foundation, made a visit to Magico in Hayward, CA.
We met Magico founder Alon Wolf, and he gave us a tour of the facility as well as the various rooms they do testing and development, manufacturing, and assembly. I'll post some of photos of this a bit later when I have time to edit them. But, man! You should see the Haas 3-D milling machines they use for manufacturing the cabinets. Whoa.
We were then given an audition of the latest spec Magico S5s in Magico's latest SOTA listening room. I'll just add that the level and execution of the acoustic treatments/layout for this room was world-class. Superb acoustics. This photo only shows a portion of the room acoustical treatment.
Very impressive demo with Pilium amplification, Wadax Server and Streamer and first-class electronics and cabling all-round. I'll add that the speaker cables were also properly elevated off the floor.
Shown here is a photo of the S5's in action during our demo. Apologies for the photo not being "perfect", I was not sitting on-center, and this was just a quickie iPhone photo.
I'll just add that I also took some photos of the crossover boards and components. I'll post this in the follow-up photos but...no iron-core inductors, sandcast resistors, or electrolytic caps to be found, anywhere. All world-class parts. Alon Wolf and Magico know how to do this correctly.
