When Magico introduced the original A3 in 2017 for $9,800 per pair, it was a significant product for a company accustomed to selling loudspeakers priced like German automobiles.
The A3 brought Magico’s aluminum cabinet construction, beryllium tweeter technology, advanced drivers, and sealed-box design into a floorstander that was still expensive, but considerably more attainable than most of the company’s lineup. Magico itself described the original A3 as an entry point intended to reach a wider audience.
Nine years later, Magico has completely redesigned it.
The new Magico A3 2027 retains the familiar three-way, four-driver configuration, but the enclosure, drivers, and crossover are all new. Development also employed measurement tools originally used for the flagship M9, including laser vibrometry and near-field scanning.
The price is new as well: $25,000 per pair.
Apparently “entry-level Magico” remains a relative concept.
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What Changed From the Original A3?
Almost everything responsible for making sound.
The original A3 used a 6-inch Graphene Nano-Tec midrange driver and two 7-inch Graphene Nano-Tec woofers. The A3 2027 moves to a new 5-inch midrange and two redesigned 7-inch woofers using aluminum-honeycomb cores sandwiched between carbon-fiber skins.
The new midrange and woofers also use pure titanium voice coils, copper shorting rings, and redesigned motor systems intended to stabilize the magnetic field and reduce eddy currents.
Up top is a new 28mm pure-beryllium dome tweeter with revised diaphragm geometry, a neodymium motor system, greater linear voice-coil travel, and a redesigned rear chamber.
The original A3 also used beryllium, so the material itself is not new, but the driver most certainly is.
Some M9 Engineering Moves Downstairs
The enclosure has received an equally serious rethink.
Magico used a laser vibrometer to identify cabinet-panel resonances and determine where bracing and damping would have the greatest effect. A Near-Field Scanner was used to map acoustic output around the loudspeaker rather than relying exclusively on conventional on-axis measurements. Those tools were also employed during development of the considerably more ambitious M9.
The A3 2027 enclosure incorporates constrained-layer damping, revised internal bracing, radiused vertical edges, a newly machined base, and model-specific footers. The aluminum panels are bead-blasted and anodized, with Black, Silver, Red, and Blue finishes.
All of that additional engineering has added some mass.
The original A3 weighed 110 pounds per speaker. The new version weighs 131 pounds each.
Moving day should provide an excellent opportunity to discover which of your friends actually meant it when they said, “Call me if you ever need anything.”
New Crossover
The three-way crossover is built around an acoustical-target 24dB-per-octave Linkwitz-Riley slope, with Magico’s Elliptical Symmetry Crossover techniques and components from Germany’s Mundorf.
Magico says the changes improve phase and frequency integration while controlling driver resonances and reducing intermodulation distortion. Those remain manufacturer claims until independent measurements and listening tests arrive, but this is clearly not an A3 Mk II with new feet and a nicer brochure.
Original A3 vs. A3 2027
| Magico A3 (2018) | Magico A3 2027 | |
|---|---|---|
| MSRP | $9,800/pair | $25,000/pair |
| Tweeter | 1 x 1.1″ (2.79 cm) Beryllium Dome Tweeter | 1 x 1.1″ (2.79 cm) Beryllium Dome Tweeter |
| Midrange | 1 x 5″ (12.7 cm) Graphene Nano-Tec Midrange | 1 x 6″ (15.24 cm) Nano-Tec Midrange |
| Woofer | 2 x 7″ (17.78 cm) Graphene Nano-Tec Bass | 2 x 7″ (17.78 cm) Nano-Tec Bass |
| Sensitivity | 88 dB | 87 dB |
| Impedance | 4 ohms | 4 ohms |
| Frequency Response | 26 Hz – 50 kHz | 25 Hz – 50 kHz |
| Recommended Power | 50 watt RMS (min) / 300 watts (max) | 50 watt RMS (min) / 300 watts (max) |
| Height | 44″ (112 cm) | 43.11 (109.5 cm) |
| Width | 9.25″ (23 cm) | 9.25″ (23.5 cm) |
| Depth | 11″ (27 cm) | 11.02″ (28 cm) |
| Weight | 110 lbs (49.89 kg) | 131 lbs (59.4 kg) |
The original $9,800 A3 offered 88dB sensitivity, weighed 110 pounds per cabinet, and used Magico’s earlier Graphene Nano-Tec driver architecture. The new model drops sensitivity slightly to 87dB, gains 21 pounds per speaker, and replaces virtually every major acoustic component.
It also costs more than two and a half times the original A3’s launch price.
Nine years have passed, manufacturing costs have increased, and the A3 2027 is effectively a new loudspeaker rather than a lightly revised version of the old one.
Still, $25,000 puts it into a dramatically different competitive neighborhood.
$25,000 Buys Some Serious Competition
Nearly anyone buying Magico will also be considering Wilson Audio. At $28,000 per pair, Wilson Audio Sabrina V is Wilson’s smallest floorstander which is 5-inches shorter than A3 2027, despite having quite similar published specifications.
At $24,000 per pair, Sonus faber Olympica III G3 is nearly the same height as A3 2027 in a lute shaped cabinet with a striking herringbone wood veneer design.
At this level, nobody is buying by specification sheet alone.
But the original A3 entered the market partly by undercutting much of this competition.
The A3 2027 has joined it.
The Bottom Line
The Magico A3 2027 is far more ambitious than the loudspeaker it replaces.
Magico has applied measurement technology developed for the M9, introduced newer cone and motor technology, substantially reworked the aluminum enclosure, redesigned every driver, and created a new crossover while preserving the compact sealed-box format that made the original A3 so interesting.
But ambition now comes with a very different admission price. The original A3 helped make Magico accessible to a larger group of serious audiophiles. At $25,000 per pair, the A3 2027 proves that “accessible Magico” remains one of high-end audio’s more flexible definitions.
For more information: magicoaudio.com
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