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Both speakers are overkill, sound compressed in the room. It's not the gear but the room. Question is what is the cubic feet?

Bella/Linda.😅✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️

i like the way Acoras image the sound,,,sounds much more unique than most speakers,,great imaging really

I bought mine on Amazon.

After seeing this presentation, I was fortunately able to convert my order from a set of Dali Rubicon 6 to a set of Dali Rubikore 6. I haven't been able to listen to it yet, but I'm sure it will be fine. Can't wait for them to be delivered....

If Mark L. is involved, the results will be tremendous. He has been on the leading edge of high end Audio since 1974, Would love for him to delve into the specs., etc. ( harmonic distortion levels, even ordered, uneven, etc ) Met him at the Sterophile 1994 Doral show in Miami -- he had the most impressive display and room at the show --Not, pure audio, but a $250,000 home theatre package , showing the latest blockbuster film--"CliffHanger"-- it was beyond incredible,, after wrapping up business with the Sensei of Japan, stopped in the bar for a quick beer--lo and behold-- spent 2 +++ getting buzzed wih the icon, Gordon Holt-- - what a wealth of knowledge and a very nice guy-( May have been the Johnny Black )-- peace out my fellow philes, tsgnd

Mbl all day sounds very natural The Magico / Boulder sounds like mega overpriced hifi 😢

Best audio pron site on the web! Thanks again AudiophileJunkie! Once again I find the MBLs just sound better in every way - more open, more life-like, more tonal juice and nuance. QUESTION FOR JASON: A common knock on the MBLS is that as omnis they give "too diffuse, vague, imprecise imaging." They are just effects generators by spraying the sound around. What is your comment on the MBL's imaging. I've owned MBLs myself, used in a room that is very good acoustically (designed with an acoustician, and has a good amount of flexibility in how reflective or non-reflective I make the room). I owned the MBLs while I also owned plenty of other speakers at the same time that I'd switch in, e.g. Thiel 3.7s (VERY precise imaging!) and various others. I found that I was able to set up the MBLs to image with similar precision to the good box speakers. I never found it "more vague" or too diffuse. In fact I found the MBLs tended to carve out distinct spatial relationships if anything even more profoundly. (I often listened from between 6 to 7 1/2 feet from mine, in a fairly well damped room). I'm sure plenty of people hear more diffuse imaging in show set ups, but you've heard the MBLs plenty, so what's your take on their imaging precision relative to many traditional speakers?

Excited to my system back online in the next 2 to 3 months. Never been big on Audio research.

Hi, I am an old nan who bought 2 of them, The original in 1980, followed by the Oracle Delphi MK1 + tonearm Sirus + Koetsu Black. There is only one thing that bugs me , it is replacing or re-installing the belt. I think its a pain every time you have to do it. Why no tools or even good videos are not available to perform this task. If you know a video that clearly explain an easy way to do it, please let us all know how to do it.

MBL is not on the exhibitor list for THE SHOW in Costa Mesa next weekend. Too bad, I would like to see/hear the MBL Extremes and would gladly drive anywhere within reason to audition them.

MBL are leagues better

The Acoras sounded perfect-ly "nice". Too bright for me, no depth or soul coming through. That room looks like it could suck the life out of anything though. I dont know how you can relax in that room. The MBLs were better, a touch of soul coming through. The colors of the room were better and more inviting for music listening.

In the Acora room, do you recall how far apart the speakers where from one another and the distance from speakers to the listening position?

Love your show my brother. Hope to see you at THE SHOW in Costa Mesa, CA. Next weekend.

Once they make a $1500 to $2000 version for small/medium sized rooms, I'd be interested. Until then, Magnepan it is!

I've listened to Acora's at three different shows in much larger room than this one. They are very dynamic speakers, but I'm not impressed by their imaging or their tonality. Love the MBL Extremes. They are great for live musical recordings and in particular with large orchestral pieces. Thank you for providing us these presentations.

Thank You!

Here is a link to prior videos playlist - czcams.com/play/PLPt7qoWWa8yi3jFTwkfxfi6Q2JqqK4QeW.html

M O O N Walking ?

Awesome. Thank you Audiophile Junkie. 🤩🥰👍

🖤super sweet stone. very limited supply in that colour too I hear.. Laguna sunrise? Sunset Fire!! Amethyst cabinets on the horizon..🤗

i experienced ILUMNIA in a Brussels High-End expo , the Magister was really that woaw effect ! the sound/energy penetrate to the soul and bones without hurting you're ears ,and they have a discrete very sexy design ! yes there was many (very)- good other speakers , bud you see from where the sound comes ! and some are way to massive for me ! by ILUMNIA you are attracted by the sound experience and you go to search from where this feeling and sound source is...

Stunning! Looking.

Man, those speakers sound good!

Marbleous. 😊

I just realized I'm staying at a hotel down the road from 3ma, going to try and sneak over tomorrow afternoon

I would take some Alsyvox Panel speakers matched with all new Apurna TM Gear and be done for life ! The bottom-end really comes alive with this amazing new gear ! OMG... At PHP Audio Fr.

Absolutely gorgeous speakers! I was lucky enough to hear the grey pair at PAF last year and they definitely rock.

Is the subwoofer at the back used when recording this clip?

Very nice video. Hard to say on CZcams but I am not a fan of a lot of “room sound” which could be heard in the MBL demo. Probably great in person.

"ready to rock"...I see what you did there.

Omg so jealous

Heavy-duty speaker 🔊 Gorgeous granite finish

So this seems like the same store they had about a month ago, it was the weekend of the new show in Dallas. It is like they finished the store. I would love to come this weekend

Can I come? I would love to hear these systems before Lone Star Audio feast

I will be there

Cool, went into 3mA awhile back .......... Definitely out of my range......... but awesome rigs. I want to go back probably this weekend to hear the Magico. I am about to upgrade here in the next 2 weeks

Good video. I enjoyed seeing the different presentations - speaker types.

Bello/Magnifico.😱✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️✡️

If you want surge protection just get a whole home surge protector installed at your panel for a fraction of the price. I also unplug my components when I remember to.

Morning everyone from tropical Scotland 😁 I hope everyone is safe and well 😁 I like the bass of the magico room but everything else from the mbl system, maybe consider adding 2 of the rel subs to the mbl, just a curious question? Why not use magico subs with the magico speakers ? As you said I'm not in the room which makes a big difference, anyway please stay safe everyone and look after yourselves 😁

To me the MBL room is more musical. The Magico REL room is more exciting for high end treble and low end bass. … On the second thought, I think Magico REL is a much better system. It has much more details and dynamics. MBL is very sweet though and could make you fall asleep.😊

Great video Jason thanks for the battle. It was interesting to me but the MBL’s just sounded better overall than the Magico’s, of course this is all over CZcams but judging by that , the MBL’s take it for me. Could be room setup as well so I imagine they may still be in the tweaking phase for the systems.

Don’t like either of these. Is it set-up? Recording?

The Magico's did have 6 REL subs but the MBL's had no Subs....MBL setup sounded muddled with less clarity

I've been in Houston, well Katy, for 12 years. I never knew. Thanks

Thanks that was fun! I'm a long time MBL fan, since the first time I heard the original 101Ds at an old CES show. I remember being drawn in by following down the hallway a particularly "live" sound which led me to the MBL room. Entering the room I was blown away by a recreation of a big band like I'd never heard before. And for once, drum cymbals actually sounded like drum cymbals - the big resonating metal discs they are, instead of the tiny spots of bright sound usually squeezed through the tweeters of a box speaker. I'd never heard such realism. Next time I heard the 101Ds was at the house of an Absolute Sound reviewer. He gave me a hair-raising demo (even in a a ridiculously small, but well treated room), which again I heard the most realistic sound ever. I kept chasing the 101s but over the years they were out of my reach and I ended up with the smaller MBL 121s which gave me a good helping of the MBL omni sound. So many people assume the MBLs are just about some special effect of spraying sound around a room for a "false spaciousness" and really, that's their party trick. But first that's not the case: in a well treated room the MBLs don't just disappear and image with incredible 3D reality: they image quite precisely as well. But what actually attracted me to the MBL sound first of all was the timbral realism. There is an openness you don't get from most speakers, and a sense of "happening now" tonality, and VARIETY of timbre that I found missing from most sound reproduction. Saxes sounded so authentic, wood blocks so wood-like, trumpets burst with that burnished "blat" and "lit up the acoustic" of the room. For the vast majority of systems once I've heard some instruments - drums, drum cymbals, sax, acoustic guitar etc - I know how those will generally sound forever more on that system. There is none of the variety, the "surprisingness" of timbre one hears in real life. But with the MBLs there is, to my ears, a sense of "surprisingness" where I was constantly entertained and engage by a more life like rainbow of timbral sound. I find I can always hear the MBL sound even through comparison demos like this. Simply in terms of relative differences heard in the recording, the Magico system sounded more muffled and boxy, whereas the sound on the MBL just opened up, boxless, more tonally airy and realistic, more live. And, timbrally, more complete and convincing. Just listen even to the Neph track, the breakdown with the trumpet and the cowbell. The cowbell behind the trumpet on the MBL recording sounds so much more open, rich, clear with variations in the metallic quality as it's being struck. Just..more real. That's how I experienced my MBL speakers.

Neat video battle

I want to live in this store. 🙌🎧🎛️📽️🎶