replaced at fall 2012 my Evolution acoustic MM3 speakers by a pair of Magico Q1. Sounds like a strange move - from a 350kg monster to a small 2-ways, but I couldn't be more happy: more transparency, less coloration, very clean transient, richness of tones. Room is completely treated, with more than 100 Helmholtz resonators and diffusers from SMT.
My next upgrade is to move to Magico Q7. the Q1 will move probably with the Devialet to my living room system to replace my APL speakers.
Peterayer, do you REALLY believe a story of a guy selling a 185k speaker, ordering another 200k speaker (the MM7) without even listening to it, because he listened to the MMMicro1, a 3k speaker of the same brand.... without mentioning that the only source of the story so far are EA owner (Jonathan) and EA best friend (Mike). For me this is so stupid that it makes them lose all credibility. Really too bad jonathan uses such marketing approach, I believe his speakers and the Micro1 in particular are good enough so that you don't need such a marketing BS to sell them. I heard the Micro1, it is a very good value for money, probably competing with $6-8k speakers. But not competing to a lot of good 10k+ speakers out there. And yes, the Q7 is in a completely different category than any other speakers I have heard (including my current Q1)
Lapierre, I don't use the subs in stereo mode. these are just the Fathom subs of my HT. Positioned in the middle of side walls, pretty classical set up when you have 2 subs in a HT.
1) it is diffusion, not absorption. My diffusers have absorption factor of only 0.15-0.2. The more you treat walls with diffusers, the better. I get a perfect decay time, regular slope, decay time constant at 0.35-0.4sec across the frequency range. Room nodes are eliminated down to 22Hz (with subwoofer of course): flat +-3dB room response.
2) it doesn't sound like a recording studios. Most studios don't like diffusive rooms, they prefer more dead rooms.
3) i have not taken a pic of the backwall (i.e. behind listener). This wall is fully treated with diffusers and a corridor which serves as a tuned basstrap for 22Hz resonance. Front wall is a 2cm thick glass window to my terrace. But I have 4 transparent wings diffusers in front of it that you can see on the pic.
