*Thanks for stopping by! Please consider clicking that like button to make my day! ;)* *NOTE #1: I understand that some viewers are concerned for the lack of specs and relevant info posted on the website. 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* *NOTE #2: I understand that the drivers look very similar to the much loved lii song drivers and yes, MACO is lii song Canada. However, the drivers seen in this video are new drivers under the MACO brand that is different than the lii song drivers that you may be mistaking these for. There are patents pending, so I cannot share the specifics of the differences nor was the video intended for that so please message them if you have questions. Please remember they may not be able to answer your question on some specific of the drivers at this time due to patents pending* Reserve your 40% OFF The MACO Macarias: getmaco.macoacoustic.com/ Amplifiers in this video: Brunoco Terra Integrated amplifier: 58787f.myshopify.com/products/terra-6l6pp-integrated?sca_ref=3824421.LMxVRnoykZ Brunoco Terra Integrated amplifier review: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o8ySlK6ixtu8qWw.htmlsi=ttet_B3TniWNH_Ab AGD Audions: agdproduction.com/product/audion/ AGD Audion review: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aJySf9l0ptHQeJ8.htmlsi=C8OkYPMSrij12vLk Pre-amplifiers in this video: Denafrips Athena: www.vinshine.audio/product-page/denafrips-athena-preamp?currency=USD ANK Mentor: ankaudiokits.com/product/pre-amp-l5-mentor/ PS Audio Stellar Gold DAC/Pre: www.psaudio.com/products/stellargold-dac Other Speakers in this video: Magnepan 3.7i: magnepan.com/products/magnepan-3-7i GR-Research NX-treme: gr-research.com/product/nx-treme/ GR-Research Triple Threat Subwoofer: gr-research.com/product/sub-series-triple-threat-with-flatpacks/ Support on Patreon: www.patreon.com/jayiyagi follow on Instagram: instagram.com/jays_iyagi/ follow on Facebook: facebook.com/jayiyagiofficial Follow soundstage take 2 reviews: kzfaq.info/sun/PLPOzvlhtSqn5xdc__ftuSt4Rxy_wm5Af0 Speaker stands: amzn.to/3ssRhI3 Better speaker stands: solidsteel.it/my-product/ss-7-vintage-hi-fi-speaker-stands/ acoustic panels I use: ua-acoustics.com/ acoustic curtain: amzn.to/31d1zAM BDI Cabinet I use: bit.ly/2OJRwQQ amzn.to/3chBuFZ other BDI Cabinets: bit.ly/3ctxXV1 amzn.to/30bsUCH my fav hifi tweaks: (Isoacoustics devices) amzn.to/3j5FGvM 0:00 What is an Open Baffle Speakers? 1:01 MACO MACARIAS Build Quality Review 4:02 Best HIFI Speaker DISCOUNT 5:15 MACO MACARIAS' Speaker Crossover 5:48 MACO MACARIAS Sound Quality Review 11:40 Best Amplifier For MACO Speakers 15:30 Magnepan 3.7i VS MACO Macarias 17:00 GR-Research NX-Treme VS MACO Macarias

Good intro to these speakers to the community. Thanks for the effort.

The MACO Macarias are definitely a conversation starter at any audiophile cocktail party.

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 😎👌

Such a great watch. Thank you for sharing this Jay.

Oh my gosh, how chic. These open baffle made with the Resin are really glam looking.

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.

An excellent review Jay

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! 😅

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!

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.

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👍🏽👍🏽🔥🎶🎶

Jay, I've bought enough speakers. Leave me alone 😅😅😂

Never heard of the Maco brand and I am an open baffle speaker fan. Thanks Jay!

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.

Reminds me of my bathroom’s dual sink countertop. Regardless looks amazing and compelling design.

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.

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.

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 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

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.

They are beautiful for sure. I want mine in Egyptian Rose Granite

Open baffle should be cheaper as there is no box.. but like with some lightweight sportscars.. you pay more for less.

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?

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.

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.

Those surrounds on the large drivers appear similar to vintage foam cone surrounds. Hopefully they are rubber or a material that lasts.

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!

Nice review. Any plans to review Clayton Shaw's Caladan OB speakers?

OMG, the cap in that crossover was manufactured in Wales where my mum is from (Cardiff) and half my family remains. Ewch Cymru!!!

Great video as usual, what great value at 40% off. Looks like you have a new Denafrips dac in da house?

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".

$800 worth of drivers for 5 figures... No...

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.

I saw a werewolf drinkin' a piña colada at Trader Vic's His hair was perfect

Hey Jay, how do you compare this driver with Lowther or AER or Voxativ？ are they made by Liisong?

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

I'm sticking with the Typhons.

For your pure musical enjoyment, Macaria or Platimon?

One of these baffles must be a tombstone on my grave! :)

You review some non-mainstream, weird shit. And I like it ❤

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.

One damn good watt!

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.

What processor & amp do you use for home theater.

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.

Wonder if Lii Song OB kit can compete with this

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

Jay, do you put these above the Closer Acoustics Forlane you recently reviewed?

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

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.

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.

I wonder how they would compare to clayton lab Caladan speakers.

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!!!

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.

Good luck getting your money back or even half of it if you ever change your end game mind 😢

Love you Jay! Keep these beautiful videos coming!

Poor Jay is reading the comments here and saying 😆

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.

I wish they offered a kit.

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.

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.

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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?

Hey Jay. How thick is the Baffle?

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.

Those drivers are by lii audio no?

"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.

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.

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.

OB is making a big comeback these days, like bell bottom jeans...

What about Clayton Shaw's new Caladans?

Can every speaker maker please specify if pricing is per each or per pair FFS?

RIP .. your back muscles .. =) I like your shirt =) And the green plants sprinkled around the decore. =)

expensive speaker mountings….but beautiful

At $699 a pair, they're great value.

Useless Link. Was somewhat interested until the link said nothing of specs, price or even a price range.

Crazy

No way these are better than Spatial Audio X5 !

Hmm we have seen these, well at least the drivers 🧐

Looks like Lii Song Audio manufactured the speakers .

🤣🤣 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😂

Wow but their website is atrocious! 😅

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.

Try listen to Crisis by Mike Oldfield, at 17:00 you will hear the best drums recording ever made.

It does look like Lii-audio W15+F15 😂

Clayton Shaw ... where you at?!

Lrs+ tried and true, and unbeatable for the price thus wait 6 month+.😅

Cheaper than a Harley!

I’ve been pronouncing the name wrong. I thought it was pronounced like the Mako shark lol

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?

sorry but i cant imagine a worse speaker design. a 15" fullrange driver cant work. a passive dipole without eq cant work.

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

€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.

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.

Build your own for $10,000 less 😂

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