I do appreciate the design, and consider it a good thing that PSAudio is looking at it as a piece of furniture that should fit in a ‘normal’ living room as well as in an ‘audio man/women cave’. My spouse is already having her reservations re seeing all the audio stuff in the rack instead of hiding it behind doors! Big speakers always have been an issue… (coming from an Apogee Calipers) The AN3 speakers may look as furniture which helps acceptability. In the end I am only interested in the soundQ. What I would like is that there is a possibility to attach gliders or felt underneath the legs and a way to be able to level each speaker horizontally on our floor
My wife, who has little patience for anything Audio, when asked what she thought about the look replied “It looks like a stacking washer/dryer combo”.
My reaction is more basic. How do they sound?
These Advents have a great looking furniture ‘look’ from yesteryear. Classy!
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Indeed furniture look is not exactly new and was quite standard until the 80s maybe.
So we possibly see here the last competitor for Tannoy 
Well, I agree that these factors are very important. I think that there is some confusion on your part of how this planar coaxial design works and the interaction of the perforated grille vs frequency (as a tweeter baffle without causing combing in the midrange). I don’t really want to write a novel about it here but it would be good to talk about some of these details, at some point.
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It’s not visible in these photos, but there is already a leveling foot there on a threaded insert, so we’ve got you covered.
And the new speaker will be direct sale, or did I read somewhere the company is trying to get it in a few select dealer sores?
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I’m not entirely captivated by the aesthetic of the stands on this speaker either. But they are highly engineered for a specific purpose to work in close harmony with everything that sits on top of it.
Indeed those Magico set looks like speakers on wheels…but functionally it’s for sure solid. Anyway I guess with those Isoacoustic Gaya feet it probably sounds much better at a fraction of the price.
Speakers on pods actually, and pricey ones at that. Although with that particular speaker Magico don’t give you any other options (but with their other speakers they do).
I heard exactly this setup in Munich last year. It was the best of 4 Magico disappointments for me as I mentioned in my report. But I’m just a fool with a subjective taste. The setup costs probably close to 1M and is for sure excellently reviewed.
Yeah, it looks like a tough room for a $1M investment to be tasked to perform in.
I’m not giving up trying to hear them how they sound for those who like them
Everything can sound bad in the wrong…and a lot can sound good in the right environment.
Direct in the United States, through dealers throughout the rest of the world.
Given that you guys pay shipping to and from, I can’t think of a better way to do it. Get em in your house and listen to them there - only way to evaluate them properly.
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OK, thanx!
more like $450k
Yes I guess I was too high
I’m with John_H on this and “too complicated” is not an answer. (I give professional opinions for a living and I’d get thrown out of court for saying that. My job is to make complex matters understandable.)
I’ve had in mind all along that the only successful makers of line source speakers (that I know of) are Piega. They’ve been making their own ribbon drivers since the 1980s. Here is a discussion and review of their coaxial mid/tweeter from 2008.
The benefits of coaxial ribbons are simply described here:
https://piega.ch/en/insights/the-benefits-of-the-coaxial-piega-ribbons
It is such a fundamental feature that they have an entire range called Piega Coax.
Cabinet rigidity is achieved by having made out of aluminium, with internal high frequency damping.
What is evident, and I think is the point John_H is making, is that this Piega unit the tweeter and ribbon is a single unit (they’ve been making ribbon drivers for 35 years) with a very minimalist baffle, and they use very thin grilles.
John_H’s concern relates to the PSA baffle:
I think the concerns are obvious.
I’ve expressed before my admiration of coaxial drivers, specifically those by Tannoy, which are incredibly coherent. The irony is that the Infinity speakers do not have coaxial ribbons. One likely reason, explained by Piega, is that they are extremely difficult to make.
So perhaps you could comment on how this design deals with off-axis interactions to which John_H refers.
Yet you persist. A lot of that going on over this side of the Pond at the moment - independent of your persuasion.