I can recognize a PBN crossover 100 miles away. He is local to me, San Diego County. Peter and I have a very good friend in common.
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They are definitely recognizable as Peter’s crossovers. He’s a really good guy.
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Agreed! Had the pleasure of hanging out with him and his wife at RMAF last year. He was “full court pressing” me to get his M1!5 speakers to kick my Tannoy Westminsters to the curb…LOL! It was a great time!
He’s definitely a salesman. He was trying to sell me the new M3!5. I’ve bought a couple sets of speakers from him over the years. He delivered them to my home, and, tried to sell me a set of his $49K amps!
Did you listen to the M1!5? If so, what was your impression?
I haven’t yet, but that “common friend” (Jim) I mentioned, has a friend in Long Beach that has them and we are working to plan an “audio party” at his house. It is just a matter of time before I get over there for a listen. However, Jim has had those M1!5’s in his house and now owns the Tannoy Westminsters, like me. But, this hobby is in great part based on subjectivism and personal preference so I won’t cast judgment until I hear the M1!5’s with my own ears.
I bet the Tannoys are beautiful sounding.
They do. And I am most definitely content, but I know Peter’s talents and I won’t rest comfortably until I get in that listen 
I hope you get it soon. Please let us know your thoughts when you do.
Having owned 3 pairs of Magico speakers I would have to disagree with you.
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Magico is good, but extremely poor value. Speakers at fraction of its price outperform it. With Magico, you’re essentially paying for cabinet manufacturing and materials, NOT sound!
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Hope i can swap my existing speakers without my wife noticing 
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That is just an idea. Something simple, one piece design. Shape of protruding “legs” can have lots of variations. Had no time to go into details. I am tooling designer in automotive industry, doing various tools for sheetmetal. So I know this would be possible to make. Some laser cutting (or milling) and bending on press tool. Matte variant would be nice too, even black matte.
I like the basic idea very much, but would prefer a design with less metal around the lower part…just outriggers mounted somewhere from the bottom or sides.
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Yes, it would be done. There is quite big mass now. Had no time to do more variations, but I will do.
The AN3’s have just introduced a cool concept:
Assemble your own speaker:
- select cabinet color
- select screen cloth
- select stand/support
The first two options are known from Rowen, Linn, Avantgarde Acoustics, and others I don’t know of.
But the third, selecting your own stand/support is rather unique for such large floor standing speakers and would be really cool!
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One piece design presents some logistic difficulties for a large/heavy speaker. If you can break it down to 2 separate pieces has some merit.
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That is true. Anyway, I have an idea how similar metal stand could be done in two pieces. Stay tuned.
Maybe not at your taste, if they would be that bad there would be no Magico anymore.
I had the chance to compare Piega to Burmester speakers this week. The Piegas were extremely well defined in the treble but aweful flat. The Burmester with it’s side firing larger subwoofer made the same Beethoven piece rock, like you are in a concert, less well defined/detailed in the treble. Is one speaker better than the other? We could argue all day long, it’s everybody’s taste.
These AN3’s have the potential to combine both, while looking very attractive.
It looked like multiple piece design:
- the AL bracket
- the spikes/feat (perhaps a changeable too
- the long bolts to affix the bracket to the speakers
I Quite like the design also Chris’s walnut stands, I just like real wood craftsmanship.
Just looking at the prototype image, I suspect the designer feels diffraction issue not worth the effort/expense of an edgeless cabinet. Certainly with the current Magico big money goes into making those seamless curves.