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0:00 What is an Open Baffle Speakers?
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I've been looking at a lot of open baffles for my next set of speakers. Thanks Jay.
@Jayiyagi why not taking the occasion to clear the fog about the LiiSong (US, Canada) being copies of LiiAudio China?
@@nydavidfolch Hi. There is simply no fog. Just odd misunderstandings from people with unwarranted hate. A copy is companies like Musician that copies Denafrips and tries to hide it under the rug by telling reviewers not to compare it to Denafrips. LiiSong Canada is an extension of LiiSong.
@Jayiyagi May I ask for a disclosure, that You as a reviewer receive or received no compensation for this review and also that you are no beneficiary of sales of these speakers? It is a bit suspicious straight at the beginning to say that these speakers you consider to be "the king/pinnacle/sensei of open baffle designs", whereas at the end You have compared them to Magnepans, which are no open baffle, and DYI GR-research speakers. What about the Tri-art, Spatial audio, Decware? What I am saying is that making such a statement a man has to have a lot of experience with different open baffle speaker designs. Or were you talking only about design, how they look and are built, and sound not included? And working with the company of final voicing is a clear bias (if not conscious then definitely unconscious).
@@henrikhengerics6782 Hey Henrik. I confirm that I have not received any compensation, financial or product. I also confirm that MACO does not have an affiliate program and thus I do not get anything in return for traffic, sales or otherwise. I was provided 3 different tunings and I chose 1 with the designer after discussing which sounded best to us. I do not see any issue there… it isn’t like I had an active role other than lending my impressions. However if you still think that I was biased, it is what it is, everyone is biased to some degree knowingly or unknowingly and I make sure to disclose any bias I have freely so that the viewers are aware of my biases.
Good intro to these speakers to the community. Thanks for the effort.
Such a great watch. Thank you for sharing this Jay.
Finally, I get to see the review of these baby's, and it was worth the wait! Thanks, Jay!
Man, you got such a beautiful set-up for all your speaker testing 😎👌
The MACO Macarias are definitely a conversation starter at any audiophile cocktail party.
Great job was really looking forward to this review. I will check out at the next audio show. Jay please get a hold of the Diptyque dip 140 MK2 , I think you will feel they out preform Maggie’s and a level above a lot of other dipole designs. I would love to hear them with the AGD. I heard the diptyque at CAF this year and it was my favorite along with AGD as best sounding amp. The Merason DAC mk2 was paired with QLN speakers was my other favorite room and some other great brands to check out.
Great job Jay, as always! I like how you divided your review and the comparison at the end with other speakers. Tell me, could you eventually do a review of very high sensitivity speakers (96db-108 db) for low power Single Ended Triode amplifiers (1, 2 or 3 watts)? I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate and that would also be very helpful! Speakers like Devore 0/96, Lii Audio "Headwrecker" speakers, Rethm "Saadhana" speakers, Cube Audio "Nenuphar" speakers, ETC....)? Thank you and keep on the good work!
Hi Jay, thanks for the enlightening comparisons. How did you find the detail retrieval given the low treble extension by specs? And did you find these to be good at low listening volumes?
An excellent review Jay
Enjoyed and appreciated very much this review Mr Jay, I’ve been just recently been introduced and familiarized with the open baffle concept speakers. Keep up the good work sir👍🏽👍🏽🔥🎶🎶
Never heard of the Maco brand and I am an open baffle speaker fan. Thanks Jay!
Reminds me of my bathroom’s dual sink countertop. Regardless looks amazing and compelling design.
what are you waiting for? Who needs a dual bathroom sink? Turn that shit into a speaker baffle! 😂
@@Jayiyagi 😂 Man you are the best! Hope to meet you someday. Will you be at Axpona this year?
I will be at Axpona this year again :)
I made some speakers with a totally open 5" single driver plus a woofer (that is in a bass reflex box).The 5" FR driver is on top of the box. I have a filter on the FR driver to stop bass excurtions. The treble is extended cos of the open driver and med range is the best I heard compared to anynother speaker I had! That's including my B&W 706 reference speakers that cost 2 grand. On my open driver speakers the med has exeptional control and sounds perfectly linear and not a single sour note. A sound I never heared before. I have a filter on the the open driver and a large inductor on the 6" woofer in a relatively large box. The woofer warms up the open med from the 5" driver, which has to match the bass output level with the right amount of warming. That's fun trying to achieve. I did it all with 5 crossover components all up. Theres 3 components on the open dtiver (a 2 mf cap and a 100mf cap and a 2 ohm resistor) and 2 components on the woofer (a 5.6 mh inductor and a 1 ohm resistor). I tried to get rid of the resistor but it was way too much bass. I also modified the open driver with cutaways and slits in the cone. This extends the reble and adds transient response. No whizzer cone and l want to build some phase plugs for it them (similar to the ones on the speakers in this video). My open cone speakers are by far the best speakers I made so far. Especially in the med range. It's med range I never heared before! The voice a is just so 3D and so there! So defined (without being over dominating or SHOUTY in any way)! And holographic off the scale! 😅
Interesting. Are you planning to make a video about it? Or is there more built info on DIyaudio?
Those surrounds on the large drivers appear similar to vintage foam cone surrounds. Hopefully they are rubber or a material that lasts.
Hey Jay, how do you compare this driver with Lowther or AER or Voxativ？ are they made by Liisong?
Oh my gosh, how chic. These open baffle made with the Resin are really glam looking.
These were at capital audio fest, I believe. They were really nice, the sound is good. I think like you said with bad recordings not coming through is a factor that someone must consider. The resolution or clarity wasn't beast. It definitely checks a lot of boxes, and is pleasant but should be heard prior to purchase in my personal opinion. I believe this is the cheapest speaker they produce, so it does definitely shine and have trickle down effects of the higher end speakers, if my memory serves me correct and it's the same product.
The crossover tuning has changed quite a bit since Captial Audio Fest
Jay, I've bought enough speakers. Leave me alone 😅😅😂
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I built a set just like these. I’ve been touting how good they are for over a year. I’m using a Crown amp to power the bass unit. I love it
Building your own is the way to go with these 👍
Same. I went with butcher block for mine. Running them with a MiniDSP SHD that does the active cossover and dirac room correction. That feeds a Decware zen to the F15's and a XTZ EDGE A2-300 to the W15's. Sounds absolutely incredible. Im sure the granite would be an improvement, but im happy with what I have.
Im working on one set also not sure on how to build the xover, can you help me?
X2 on the mini dsp. i’m still searching for the perfect amp for the F-15s.
You crazy diy people! 🤪😎
That web site was designed by a marketing company to look pretty, have have enough words to make it look like they are telling you something while saying absoltly NOTHING. Not listing materials or price, et alone any information on materials for the speakers, sensitivity etc.
Agreed - no helpful information or specs listed. I don't even know what I'm getting 40% off of.
@@suwatt601940 percent off from the listed price
@@Jayiyagithere's no listed price
I literally show it in the video twice. Once on their website
@@Jayiyagi I litterally went through their website 3 times in the first 6 minutes of your video. As someone who runs a digital marketing team if I can't look at the UI and have a good UX in under 30 seconds of quickly looking at a site, there is a problem.
They are beautiful for sure. I want mine in Egyptian Rose Granite
Thanks, Jay! Great to know there's yet more promise in the OB world. Def recommend checking out Clayton Shaw (formerly of Spatial Audio) when you attend Axpona. He's scheduled to be in Room 512 according to their site. (There's a great discussion here on YT between him & Ron of NRD ... if you don't mind me cross-promoting another enthusiast!) Thanks again.
I saw a werewolf drinkin' a piña colada at Trader Vic's His hair was perfect
Ahhoooh werewolves of London
I've actually done that but my hair was no where near perfect..
What processor & amp do you use for home theater.
Ever heard of Holfi amplifiers? Legend of last century. Amazing story. They were only build for audio, not for looking smart. They all had a wood panel in the front, with only 2 wooden rotary knob, one for volume and one for signal selection. Almost a classical Japanese design. They came with a 35 watts 70 watts and the top product, which used 6 motorcycle batteries as power. Incredible simple build with extremely short signal ways and over dimensioned transformer. They were absolute "the Reference" that they compared other amps too. They are very rare today, since they were a small company, but if you can find one, you can buy them fairly cheap today, since not many knows today what they are. Personaly got the smallest one 35 watts and it still have a 12kg weight. Needless to say they were never exhausted of lack of power in the transients. 35 watts still sounds like a 100 watts, transparent warm and silent. You own your self to hear them. They also build a High End Cd player, a phono preamp.
Great video as usual, what great value at 40% off. Looks like you have a new Denafrips dac in da house?
As on the MACO VIP waiting list, I have decided on the Clayton Shaw Acoustic Lab CALADAN. For me I am looking for a Company (Clayton) who has history with Baffle design. I will keep an eye out with MACO on their products.
The driver cost to baffle is way too wide. Those Lii Audio are what, $299 for the pair? The woofer is $299 each.
These are not 1:1 liisong drivers. They have been modified to MACO’s specifications. MACO is always liisong canada
@@JayiyagiI would like to see a comparison between these drivers and the unmodified drivers. Including measurements. Doubt it is any different, let alone different enough to make the balance between unit and baffle cost justified
It’s the general escape: “no these are not stock drivers but build to our spec’s”. Yeah sure, custom color phase plug…😂
@@annebokma4637 Price is $6300 for the birch plywood finish. 40% off price is $3780. The $10,000+ is for the granite and quartz baffle. I think that's pretty fair but that's just me.
@@Jayiyagi the 40% off price I agree is fair, for what you describe. But that is not the MSRP. A pap duet 15 is around the same price range. Of course the true test is hearing it myself. But getting heavy Canadian speakers to Europe just for a listen might be a bit much 😁
Jay, do you put these above the Closer Acoustics Forlane you recently reviewed?
two very different sounds. The Macarius are warmer speakers with less focus on transparency and detail while the forlanes are the opposite
Open baffle should be cheaper as there is no box.. but like with some lightweight sportscars.. you pay more for less.
Nice review. Any plans to review Clayton Shaw's Caladan OB speakers?
Yes! Definitely interested
Now thats a game changer
Good review. Thanks 🙏 Yep. Pretty much agree with other comments re: scarcity of technical information on manufacturer’s website. Would be useful for prospective customers for system matching (efficiency/frequency range) as well as dimensions. Will feed that back to them separately.
The website is for pre-launch special only (kind of kick-starter) so please give MACO some time to post these when the product is launched on their official website. However if you need more information NOW because you are considering joining the 40% pre-launch special, please message them here for the information you require: contact@madlyaudio.com
@@Jayiyagi Thanks. Have signed up but I will drop them an email on specs.
The fact that they can't even accept the drivers are made by lii audio & you also go along with this shenanigans tells me everything i wanna know.
The drivers are made by lii song under Maco’s brand specifications. Maco is also lii song Canada
“Can’t accept” … when and where were they asked?
How would these rank for 55-65db listening? What speakers have you heard that perform better in this regard? Do these speaker perform better for late night listening than others you have heard, do you have any examples? Thank you for the review!
Not the best for low listening. I think speakers like totem is better for that
I wonder how they would compare to clayton lab Caladan speakers.
All speakers "pressurize" the room but with traditional speakers, the room nodes can artificially boost some frequencies which might be enjoyable but isn't high fidelity
Expensive OB's with full range drivers are a difficult sell given that it's exactly the configuration that is easiest to DIY. The drivers are Lii Audio although I am pretty sure MACO will claim they were made "to their specifications".
Drivers look identical to W-15 and F-15
Wonder if Lii Song OB kit can compete with this
The drivers in these Maco speakers are Lii Song Drivers.
They are Maco drivers. Maco is also liisong Canada
For your pure musical enjoyment, Macaria or Platimon?
OMG, the cap in that crossover was manufactured in Wales where my mum is from (Cardiff) and half my family remains. Ewch Cymru!!!
One of these baffles must be a tombstone on my grave! :)
One damn good watt!
I'm sticking with the Typhons.
I built a pair of OB with the exact drivers used here. Butcher block baffles and closely designed to the LiiAudio drawings. I used both the Lii crossover as well as bi amping with Rogue tube mono blocks full range to F15's and Crown XLS low passed to W15's. I also own Magnepan 3.7i's. I just sold the OB's for $700! The raw drivers sell for about $1000 a pair or slightly less. While I agree with much you said, I find the asking price for these to be absurd. Beautiful baffles and assuredly not cheap to make but! Word on the street is that the full range driver takes at least 100 hours to break in! Are these fully broken in? I have also heard from so many that a low powered, single ended tube amp is mandatory to get the best sound. All in all, I am glad I built them and while I lost close to $700 in material cost I had a blast building them and listening. My Maggies easily surpass them on multiple levels. I certainly heard the similarities in the two speakers and I am thoroughly intrigued with OB's. I will seeking out other OB speakers at AXPONA this year. I know that these drivers used in an OB configuration have almost a cult following and while I understand why I think the break in issue is a major problem and mandating a low power (Decware?) amp limits the potential of these speakers using these drivers.
Hey Tim, you may have used similar drivers but it is not possible that you used the same drivers since these drivers are not out in the market yet, please check the pinned comments. Also if you build diy speakers before then you know as well as I do that just because you used similar/same drivers, does not mean you have built something that sounds the same as the Macarias. Thanks for sharing about what you built tho!
The full range (F15) do have a different colour phase plug and the surround looks slightly different. I'll admit they could be different drivers but I can't even imagine what differences could justify the significantly higher price. But, as always, it is what the market will tolerate. I still have the question on break in and opinions on low power single ended tube amps. I'm just not buying the value proposition here. I''ll be at AXPONA and will assuredly take a look/listen. BTW, I am all about DIY as I have built 4 different CSS kits and find their value to be incredible! Very high quality drivers too. @@Jayiyagi
I saw the price and email marketing campaign. I asked directly if these were Lii drivers, they did not respond. I hear you that they may be modified, but nonetheless transparency is important. It’s a big markup, even at a discount, so unless we can get more information on how this is different than Lii DIY and custom baffles, I just don’t think they’re going to find success. I wish them well.
They look just like liiaudios
@@jeanlephunkthey are; it’s funny that this video just dropped today because I was in class researching drivers and discovered the lii full range pairs for my own diy project and immediately was reminded of these speakers.
If you think its over-priced, you can always DIY yourself. According to Maco, these drivers will launch under Maco's brand sometime this year as well
The Maco owners have been making the rounds on many product shill youtube channels. It looks like they were hoping to slip one past the goalie…glad to see all of us LiiSong fans are calling bs.
Considering that Maco is liisong canada… your calling bs on the brand you are a fan of…
I love how we pay extravagantly more for open baffle designs... aka less speaker and you better have a treated listening room or else it's gonna be a nightmare. To be clear, there is no R&D done for cabinet considerations or air flow when the room is treated as an "infinite baffle"... the room is the enclosure.
I would disagree about the difficulty of the room and treatment. Open baffle speakers are easier to integrate due to the automatic reduction of bass nodes in 2 out of 3 axis.
I love how you act as if you know what you're talking about. When you're actually totally clueless. And are completely wrong about how OB works in a room. ✌️
@@amb3cog all you do is pretentiously reply "wrong" 🤣🤡
@markceci9896 what are you on about? The rear reflections are literally the biggest concern. Particularly when finding 1/4 and 1/2 wave lengths to eliminate nodes/super positions whether that's between themselves or a non damped reflector.
$800 worth of drivers for 5 figures... No...
Where did you get the price of the drivers?
yeah. so easy to build open baffles for a fraction of the cost
@@Jayiyagi So the drivers are lii-audio from china. The F15's (that's the full-range driver at the top) is $400 for the pair. The bass drivers W-15 are $745 for the pair. I don't doubt that these speakers sound good but they need to be priced appropriately. I do understand slate and marble is difficult to source and demands a premium. I hope you do a DIY build like this some day, I have no doubt you can do it.
If you think its over-priced, you can always DIY yourself. But these are not the exact same drivers you listed even though they do look quite similar. According to Maco, these drivers will launch under Maco's brand sometime this year as well. Also Maco is lii song Canada One day for me but not today 😂 would need more than a router for that marble
I wish they offered a kit.
Hey Jay. How thick is the Baffle?
2 inches thick
Those drivers are by lii audio no?
Certainly looks that way. Way overpriced considering what you can purchase the raw drivers for.
Good luck getting your money back or even half of it if you ever change your end game mind 😢
You review some non-mainstream, weird shit. And I like it ❤
This are the Liionidas Open Baffle speaker from Lii Song Audio but with the cheaper F-15 drivers. Also you can have a better speaker with Pure Audio Project.
Also, Linkwitz
Way to expensive for something that’s so easy to build , That Lii audio drivers aren’t even that expensive , not saying they are not good , just looking at price/ quality on offer ratio
These are not 1:1 liisong drivers. They have been modified to MACO’s specifications. MACO is always liisong canada
Looks like some Lii audio drivers (F-15 and W-15). Drivers would be 1000 bucks all in, if you're comfortable diy-ing or found the crossover values you could probably make yourself a comparable speaker for significantly cheaper.
Also, the Liionidas extreme is quite similar. Albeit a 10 inch full range instead of a 15 for 4600.
A well-done and thorough video. I think it would've been better to compare the NX-Oticas with the Macarias. The NX-Treme is a line array model, so to me, you're comparing apples with oranges.
Oh man… as much as I love the NX-Oticas at its attractive price point… and I want to buy one someday, from what I’ve heard, they just don’t stand up to the Macarias like NX-tremes do
@@Jayiyagi Thanks for the reply. I disagree, because they're two different animals. I don't like line sources, but I loved listening to the NX-Oticas. And the price for the Macarias seems extreme to me.
Cool man!
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Punchier bass is pretty normal at higher volumes anyway . . .For instance if, at a live concert with amplified sound, one were to turn the sound system's volume down, you probably wouldn't be getting that chest pounding bass :-) Macaria is showing their speakers at Axpona but NOT in Montreal on 22 March? BIG mistake! There are a LOT of 2 channel fans that show up at that show. I wrote them to suggest they show up in Montreal along with congrats on their efforts but never heard back from them. NOT nice. OH! And on another less important but visually kind of negative, is the COLOUR of the phase plugin the bass driver - they REALLY need to change that colour . . . it looks like . . . well . . . YOU fill in the blanks :-) GOOD review as usual, Jay! THANKS!!!
What about Clayton Shaw's new Caladans?
would love to check it out one day
@@Jayiyagi I'll let him know.
Thank you Jay for sharing. The reality of the pricing of audio equipment is that its mostly overpriced. Toys for big boys. Now lets look into the pricing of vintage equipment. Its gone sky high into absurb numbers. They only way I will ever purchase any hi-end products is if I win the lottery. I still own my 1979 system.
Where can find the technical specs for the speakers? Sensitivity, power handling, frequency response, weight, dimensions etc? These are things I’d like to know before reserving a speaker. If it’s on their website I can’t find it. If they offered a full refund after being able to demo in home it wouldn’t be as big of a deal but to take a 20% hit is a bit steep imo
The website is for pre-launch special only (kind of kick-starter) so please give MACO some time to post these when the product is launched on their official website. However if you need more information NOW because you are considering joining the 40% pre-launch special, please message them here for the information you require: contact@madlyaudio.com
I've heard another video interviewing the maker the Lii F15 runs fullrange and the W15 is crossed at 300hz second order. A whooping big air coil which I read somewhere isn't the best choice for a low pass.
Still awaiting a demo of the $3k caladan from Clayton shaws new company. The caladan are supposed the compete with the $10k x4 from Spatial Audio labs.
Love you Jay! Keep these beautiful videos coming!
Can every speaker maker please specify if pricing is per each or per pair FFS?
pricing is for the pair
6000$? Those look like lii audio units. The drivers are 1000$ total, lets be generous and add 1000$ for filter/cabling . That leaves 4000$ for a piece of wood and profit. This is silly and truly overpriced. And no they are not the best units/speakers by a long shot.
These are not 1:1 liisong drivers. They have been modified to MACO’s specifications. MACO is also liisong canada If you think its over-priced, you can always DIY yourself. According to Maco, these drivers will launch under Maco's brand sometime this year as well
@@Jayiyagi looking forward to competitive tests. Shame they didn't make the colored plastic parts in a different color to prevent confusion. Also looking forward to hearing how these compare to the usual suspects, PAP springs to mind. The audiopheliac has a pair of pure audio project in a comparable price range... Thnx for reacting, appreciate it
Most speakers sold are a minimum of 3 or 4 times the cost of the parts and materials. Some are a lot more than that.
expensive speaker mountings….but beautiful
I would really like to see some measurements of this speaker. There is no way a 15” full range speaker can play anything above 10khz.
Not sure about that in the early seventies the most common auto audio speaker were Jensen 6x9 with that kind of come in the center and it played full range with Queen,Zep,Yes and all the other stuff we listened to,However for the money it kinda sucks
The 15” doesn’t go that high. It’s crossed over at 300hz to the whizzed cone. Do you research before making ignorant comments
Crazy
Useless Link. Was somewhat interested until the link said nothing of specs, price or even a price range.
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Wow but their website is atrocious! 😅
Hey there Jay, you mentioned the speaker you have alone is the granite variant costing ~$13000, but my fear is you said singular speaker. Did you mean to say speakers as in the price points are per PAIR? Or is my fear confirmed that these prices are for just one speaker?
The price is for the pair
@@Jayiyagi Oh sweet Jesus thank-you for not destroying my hopes 🤍🤣
😂@@anthixious
Hmm we have seen these, well at least the drivers 🧐
With the idea of an open baffle it always nags me that virtually all recordings are mastered with box speakers. So you end up with how it is intended to sound. On the other hand who cares how it was intended. It's your experience which counts.
Send these MACO Macarias to Danny so he can remove the cheese from this crossover and replace it with his mystical improvements (fix this mess into a gem) be it they are crushed and deformed (trouble with suppliers). Danny can improve any speaker on earth; he's a god. Basically 20 - 40 years of speaker design from the manufacturer pales to what Danny can do in two days with your speaker.
Who's Danny?
Check out the wizard's final foray into OB at a much more reasonable cost or actually similar cost to their plywood model and 40% discount. Clayton Shaw.
The biggest problem with open baffle is one has to be a tidy person . i am NOT.😂 Those speakers would be covered in dust with all manner of spiders living in them with the additional possibility of alien spores (my wife is convinced i'm from another planet ) getting ready to hatch during a song with powerful bass.
RIP .. your back muscles .. =) I like your shirt =) And the green plants sprinkled around the decore. =)
it's my gf... she has a bonsai obsession these days
@@Jayiyagi ... Same!.. I started thinking about having 2 mini trees in my room between the speakers and amp.. I started seeing A.I. renders on FB.. that got me hooked on it.. haha.. Damn marketing manipulation.. grrr.
Looks like Lii Song Audio manufactured the speakers .
What? Even better than Danny’s rig with servo subs? You’ve heard that system. And they are 7’ tall so that rules them out for many people. And as Danny has shown in his Spectral decay video, full range drivers still need crossovers.
Like I said in the video, I wouldn’t say one is better than the other per se. Just different.
They don’t need crossovers but they need BSC to tame the rising response from baffle step loss…otherwise things get shouty
OB is making a big comeback these days, like bell bottom jeans...
It really is! I gotta check out some more.
No way these are better than Spatial Audio X5 !
Poor Jay is reading the comments here and saying 😆
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Try listen to Crisis by Mike Oldfield, at 17:00 you will hear the best drums recording ever made.
At $699 a pair, they're great value.
"These are not 1:1 liisong drivers. They have been modified to MACO’s specifications. MACO is always liisong canada" So where are the changes ? hard pill to swallow knowing for how much the lii drivers go for and look the same.
They do actually look physically different. I don't know the exact changes. According to Maco, these drivers will launch under Maco's brand sometime this year as well
@@Jayiyagithat’s called a rebrand. And you believe that they are modified to their specs? Really? But then again you believe GR Research crossover modification videos too. 😂
Lrs+ tried and true, and unbeatable for the price thus wait 6 month+.😅
Clayton Shaw ... where you at?!
It does look like Lii-audio W15+F15 😂
No written proof of sensitivity, frequency response, loading characteristics, or actual electroacoustic data of any kind are available on the site. Therefore, this product may as well not exist - how do you expect people to put down money on something they cannot evaluate for compatibility with their room or system? Surely not just with patter about "edge" and "smear" and "punch." Don't get me wrong, I'm not a hardline measurement guy, but this ain't it. I do like that it's a Toronto-based company/shop, at least.
Do you have any kind of interest in MACO?
Haha what do you mean? Of course I am interested so thats why I checked it out
I’ve been pronouncing the name wrong. I thought it was pronounced like the Mako shark lol
🤣🤣 those are just lii song drivers right? That's a HUGH markup for a set of baffles. Anybody interested in these who is cost conscious can just buy the speakers direct from lii song and have a set of baffles made (or make yourself with basic plywood and hand tools). Save thousands of dollars for the exact sound. Imagine if I took a basic Samsung TV, put a wood frame around it and charged 13,000$ for it😂
These are not 1:1 liisong drivers. They have been modified to MACO’s specifications. MACO is also liisong canada
@@Jayiyagifor stock drivers + a bit of plywood we are looking at +/- 3000$ and an afternoon's work. They must have done some real magic to justify an additional 10,000$!!! I've been playing with those speakers and various baffle materials/designs for a few years now and agree that they sound fantastic!! My current preference is solid two inch thick cedar baffles tilted back 5 degrees with drivers rear mounted. They make for an incredible set of speakers at 3000$!!!
@@billbones1000 Price is $6300 for the birch plywood finish. 40% off price is $3780. The $10,000+ is for the granite and quartz baffle
Complete BS if they are telling you they are “modified to their specs”.
sorry but i cant imagine a worse speaker design. a 15" fullrange driver cant work. a passive dipole without eq cant work.
If have seen it and a few DIY designs I would have agreed but it works and works very well. Is it dome tweeter like no, but does have very detail yes very much so. I talking about the 15 full-range
The commission cheque is in the post!
No such arrangements
€6300 for a diy project speaker worth €1500 in part is not that great a value. The marble one at least does something you couldn't do yourself that easily.
Promo SM
The Maggies have a very poor quality low end. It’s basically a must to have one or preferably two subwoofers in the system with Maggies
Really? Flat to 50 is good enough for much of what I listen to. I think it’s incredibly detailed and fast.
@@veroman007 most of the music I listen to is jazz, blues, yacht rock, classical especially small groups… So it’s mostly acoustic instruments. My 3.6R’s just don’t have enough quality bass even at 40 Hz for my taste. I’ve been an audio enthusiast for 62 years now And I also have frequented hundreds of concerts and jazz clubs over the course of my listening career. Maggie’s just don’t cut it to produce bass, not only in terms of frequency bottom end but totally necessary to hear the structure of the instruments like a AA bass without a quality subwoofer(s) in my music system. Everyone has their own taste and understanding of what satisfies them when listening to music. With all of my listening history this is my understanding of what the music and the individual instruments sound like in my three-dimensional space. This is only my opinion but I do disagree with yours.
Nice but way overpriced. When you have a system for building speakers, it's just routine. Open baffles are just not priced what they were due to their increase in popularity. It's like solar energy and electric. Companies reap the benefits before the customer does. Their website is really commercial looking.
Lii song Liionidas are way better designed speakers, and still 2k cheaper. F-15 is pure crap compared to Silver-10 (used as fullrange in 2 way speaker) and especially in open baffle design.
These are not 1:1 liisong drivers. They have been modified to MACO’s specifications. MACO is also liisong canada
I call BS on “modified to our specs”. That’s what people say when you call them on their bs. You are paying for the granite and their labor. Everyone has a right to make a living, but as I heard “modified to our specs”… next!