MAGICO S-7

Magico has released its new S-7 three-way, floor standing loudspeakers, which incorporate new tweeters, new midrange drivers and new bass drivers derived from the M-Project loudspeaker. Although it’s a part of Magico’s S-Series, the S-7 towers over the other models in the S-Series range. Its 1.42-metre-high acoustic suspension enclosures have curved aluminium side panels that are machined in-house at Magico from 12mm-thick aluminium extrusions and braced internally to minimise resonances. The S-7 uses three new 254mm-diameter aluminium-coned bass drivers with a claimed linear excursion of 15mm. ‘ The basket, spider and voice-coil design of the new bass drivers in the S-7 follow similar design principles as the bass drivers used in the M-Project loudspeaker,’ said Boris Granovsky, of Absolute HiEnd, which distributes Magico in Australia. ‘ They have extremely powerful magnets, ultra-stiff aluminium cones and are capable of producing deep, powerful bass frequencies with such speed and accuracy that they can produce clean and undistorted sound pressure levels of up to 120dB at 50Hz at one metre.’ The 152-mm-diameter midrange driver’s cone is made from a compound of Arkema multi-wall carbon nanotube and XG Sciences C-750 nanographene. Magico says the resulting cone is 20 per cent lighter and 300 per cent stiffer than the cone materials it’s previously used in its midrange drivers. It has an underhung neodymium motor system with two extra-large magnets that provide an ultra-stable magnetic field for the voice-coil, which is wound from pure titanium. The driver operates from a sub-enclosure within the S-7 that’s made from the same proprietary polymer material that was first introduced in the Magico S-3. The S-7 uses a new 25mm-diameter diamond-coated beryllium diaphragm tweeter that Magico says was purpose-built for the S-7. ‘ This new tweeter has extra-long excursion and uses a neodymium-based motor system that is customised to match the sensitivity and power handling capabilities of the S-7 while maintaining ultra-wide dispersion characteristics and ultra-low distortion measurements,’ Granovsky told Australian Hi-Fi Magazine, ‘ and the crossover uses Magico’s exclusive elliptical symmetry crossover topology that includes state-of-the-art components from Mundorf of Germany.’ For further information, please contact Absolute HiEnd on (04) 8877 7999 or visit the website at www.absolutehiend.com