High End Munich 2025 Systems - Magico, Pass and Aurender

A laser vibrometer mapped every unwanted resonance in the cabinet before Magico finalised the design, and a Klippel Near-Field Scanner robot measured the complete 3D sphere of the speaker's on- and off-axis response, engineering effort aimed at a single stated goal - a cabinet that adds no coloration of its own to the sound. That's the S5 2024, paired here with an Aurender A30 streaming source for a room Hifiverse rated simply as delivering "rich and detailed sound."

The system at a glance

Two components, a substantial 118.8kg American flagship-tier floorstander alongside a top-of-line Korean streaming source, priced at roughly £100,000 for the speakers alone. Its appeal lies in Magico's measurement-driven engineering approach, developed using the same Klippel scanning technology and FEA modelling the company applies across its full range, paired with a streaming source built to a comparably serious mechanical standard.

Why these components work together

The S5 2024 carries a 28mm diamond-coated beryllium tweeter derived directly from Magico's flagship M-series, its diamond coating applied by chemical vapour deposition to make an already-stiff beryllium diaphragm considerably more rigid still, delivering 88dB sensitivity into a 4-ohm load with bass extension to 20Hz from an enclosure whose internal volume increased 31 per cent over the previous S5 specifically to achieve that lower reach without sacrificing sensitivity. The midrange and twin woofers use Magico's Nano-Tec Gen 8 cone material, an aluminium-honeycomb core wrapped in graphene-reinforced carbon-fibre skins chosen for stiffness and internal damping rather than sheer lightness alone, crossed over through the company's Elliptical Symmetry Crossover using premium Mundorf resistors and coils. Magico's entire engineering process for the S5, extensive vibration mapping followed by iterative cabinet refinement, is why the company can claim the enclosure itself contributes essentially nothing audible to the sound, letting whatever the driver complement actually reproduces reach the listener without cabinet-borne interference. The Aurender A30, the flagship model in Aurender's streaming line, functions as an SSD-caching audio server with its own built-in DAC and analogue output, controlled through the company's Conductor app, giving the S5 a source built to eliminate network-related jitter and noise before the signal ever reaches the loudspeaker's resolving driver array.

How it sounds

Reviewers describe the S5 2024's tweeter output as "chock-full of textural detail," with awe-inspiring bass power and depth that stays faithful to the source material in a way the reviewing press consistently credits as characteristic of Magico , and Hifiverse's own "rich and detailed" verdict from the Munich floor reflects exactly what a non-resonant cabinet paired with a low-noise digital source is engineered to deliver