
Rainy weekdays in London are made for hi-fi shops. And KJ West One near Bond street is the best kind of dealership; the kind where a small dog greets you with a head butt on arrival and your wet coat is whisked off somewhere warm and far from the electrical hi-fi separates. A quick glass of something bubbly to forget the journey and we're off downstairs, past several of the most outrageous audio products I saw at High End Munich last year, to a dedicated and treated listening room complete with two beautiful blue driver-filled monoliths.
This is the reveal of Magico's third-gen. S3, the luxury audio brand's new "mid-range" floorstanding stereo speaker pair option (more on this later), above the entry-level A-series and beneath the M-series, famed for its nearly million-dollar M9 speakers.