Magico's new A3 speakers are the money-no-object buy you need to see

Magico completely reworks its A3 floorstanding speaker The new model brings refined design and all-new drive units Oh, and it costs the amount of a small holiday home Californian audio brand Magico has impressed us a lot in the past with its expensive but amazing-sounding speakers.

<![CDATA[ <article> <ul><li><strong>Magico completely reworks its A3 floorstanding speaker</strong></li><li><strong>The new model brings refined design and all-new drive units</strong></li><li><strong>Oh, and it costs the amount of a small holiday home</strong></li></ul><p>Californian audio brand Magico has impressed us a lot in the past with its expensive but amazing-sounding speakers. We <a href="https://www.techradar.com/audio/speakers/i-heard-magicos-big-new-m7-speakers-and-now-i-cannot-save-dollar560k-quick-enough">loved the company's $560k Magico M7</a> and its<a href="https://www.techradar.com/audio/speakers/magicos-new-s7-money-no-object-speakers-were-acoustically-refined-using-robotics-and-im-desperate-to-hear-them"> $200k Magico S7,</a> and now it has something that's (relatively) affordable (but still quite expensive).</p><p>Meet the Magico A3 2027 which, as the name suggests, is a reimagined version of an existing speaker. The original A3 released in 2017, and the upgraded model makes changes to basically every part of the speaker.</p><p>When I called these "affordable", I was speaking relatively: they are set to go for $25,000 / £28,998 (about AU$60,000) per pair. Thanks to my idle Rightmove searches in the Cairngorms (a mountainous range in Scotland), I know for a fact that the UK price would cover a small holiday home, so it's still a huge cost for most of us.</p><p>But that's the floor-stander <em>thing</em>, isn't it? They're never especially cheap, and these really are only for people to whom money is no object.</p><h2 id="i-get-a-strange-magico">I get a strange Magico</h2><p>The Magico A3 2027 has a 28mm tweeter, 5-inch midrange driver and dual 7-inch woofers, in a total overhaul of the previous model's audio set-up. The latter three speakers use aluminum-honeycomb cores.</p><p>It's not just the drive units which are new, and it sounds like the biggest overhauls came to the design. And I'm not just talking about that space-age cuboid look , with rounded corners and a soft elegance.</p><p>I'm talking about the architecture. Magico has used Constrained-Layer Dampening, along with smart brace and bolt placement, to create a quiet structure that avoids unwanted resonance. The drivers also come with motor systems to stabilize them, avoiding distortion in music.</p><p>Lots of these systems come from the brand's pricier M9, so you're getting refined hi-fi intelligence for a (relatively) low price. </p><p>I think I'd still choose the holiday cottage if I had that kind of money (just), but if you don't want a small cabin in the mountains, the Magic A3 2027 could be the next best thing.</p> </article> ]]>