There seems to be some confusion over the list price. I emailed Mike and asked what the price was and why when you load the page sometimes it says 8k and others 5K. Mike responded "Magus is $7,995 (http://www.teresonic.com/speakers/magus/). no price changes since several years ago." He had no idea why sometimes the site loads a two year old page. Feel free to email him and ask him the list price. They were $5000 when I reviewed them 4 years ago, but the cost of the cabinets have doubled sense then.I have owned this pair of the Teresonic Magus A55s, their bookshelf size speakers for the last four years. There are pictures as well as reviews of the Magus A55s by me on the Dagogo website. These are the best small monitor size speakers I have heard, when you add to this they are 98db efficient that is amazing. I have driven them with 2.5 watt tube amps, 8 watt 300B SETs, and an Electrocompaniet integrated amp. I have owned Teresonic Speakers for the last seven years. Their Ingenium XR Silvers have been my reference system and still is since 2007. I have review speakers up to $70,000, and none have bettered the Teresonics. So why am I parting with the Magus A55s? Well, we got a much bigger flat screen tv, and we had to change things in the Video/Digital system. The Magus no longer fit into the wall unit my wife got for the living room. By the way we have a deal, I get to do what I want in the dedicated music room, and she gets to do the living room. So the Magus are for sell. The advantage of getting a used pair of Lowthers is that they are broken in. It takes Lowthers about a year or two to totally break in. Also, it is getting harder to get Lowthers with Alnico magnets in the drivers. If for any reason you don’t want a broken in pair, Mike at Teresonic will put a brand new pair of Lowther A55 Drivers in these cabinets (as long as he can get them). This would cost an additional $950, but they would then come with the full factory warranty. Nice of them but I would advise taking the broken in pair. They are great sounding. I do not have the stands, but they are available from Teresonic. I do have the gold spikes, and in my reference system I used them with the rear spike removed and sitting on a maple cutting board sitting on the floor. You would be shocked how big they sounded that way. In the video system, I used them with the spikes on an open air cabinet about 18 inches off the floor. I have rated them an 8 because of age. To me they look just like they did when I got them. Because they are the cabinets are hand made in Europe by instrument builders no pair is absolutely perfect like those made by machines, but they are more beautiful. Magus technical specification
One-way stand-mount, bookshelf, or tabletop loudspeaker
Enclosure type: Multi-chamber Compact Monitor
Drive unit: One 5" Lowther DX55 driver
Bandwidth 55Hz-22kHz ± 3dB
Sensitivity 98 dB )@ 1W/1kHz/1m
Impedance 8 Ohms
Crossover None
Connectors WBT, 24ct gold plated terminals
Internal wiring Fully shielded Teresonic Clarison cables used inside the speaker
Dimensions H x W x D 15x12x9in (38x30x23cm)
Price: $7,995
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