Margules MAGENTA MONITOR
Margules’ MAGENTA MONITOR pairs visceral bass with a three-dimensional midrange and airy, fatigue-free treble. Drew Gagliano found its expansive, cabinet-vanishing imaging exceptional, while the compact rear-ported design delivers deep, firm low end with satisfying authority. Carefully braced, anti-resonant cabinetry completes a monitor built for richly involving listening.
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Sound Quality
93/100
Build Quality
91/100
Value for Money
91/100
Pros
Expansive, speaker-disappearing soundstage and imaging that impressed against more expensive reference monitors.
Deep, firm and fast bass with substantial weight and room-pressurizing authority from compact 5.25-inch woofers.
Airy, naturally integrated treble and a lush, dimensional midrange support fatigue-free long listening sessions.
Thoughtful cabinet construction includes anti-resonant Valchromat, internal bracing, acoustic foam and quality internal wiring.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
SOUND QUALITY PERFORMANCE 93/100
The Magenta Monitor is described as a richly weighted, highly coherent compact speaker with unusually substantial low end, a lush and dimensional midrange, and smooth, fatigue-free highs. Its most striking reported strength is an expansive, speaker-disappearing presentation that the reviewer felt surpassed a PMC monitor costing twice as much.
Bass
91/100
For a rear-ported monitor using 5.25-inch woofers, the reported bass performance is exceptional. The reviewer heard firm, effortless and visceral low frequencies with enough depth and room-pressurizing authority that a subwoofer was never missed, while retaining satisfying weight without becoming slow or syrupy.
Mid
94/100
The midrange is described as lush, palpable and three-dimensional, helping create an involving presentation that drew the reviewer into the music. Its sense of body and natural flow appears closely connected to the speaker's seamless integration across the range.
Treble
94/100
High frequencies are praised as airy, delicate and naturally integrated rather than attention-seeking. The reviewer found the presentation notably free of fatigue, with the tweeter and woofer blending smoothly enough to make the crossover itself effectively disappear.
Soundstage Imaging
96/100
The reviewer heard a large, seamless stage with little sense that sound was coming from the cabinets themselves. The Magentas performed an especially convincing disappearing act across genres, and were said to better the imaging tricks of the reviewer's PMC twenty.22 monitors.
Dynamics
90/100
At higher volumes, the speakers were reported to retain an unrestricted, effortless flow and an exquisitely balanced overall sound. The review's reservation about reduced dynamics concerns the partnering amplifier's built-in phono stage rather than the monitors themselves.
Assessments of Build Quality, Usability, and Overall Propositions.
Build Quality
91/100
The cabinet combines anti-resonant Valchromat construction with a laser-cut solid Caribbean walnut front panel. The reviewer also identified internal bracing, strategically placed acoustic foam and Atlas OFCC internal wiring, suggesting careful attention to cabinet control and assembly.
Value for Money
91/100
The available review calls the musicality and listener engagement remarkable at the price, although it discusses the monitors as part of a $5,000 system with the ACRH-1.2 integrated amplifier rather than providing a separate speaker price. The reviewer also compares their imaging favorably with PMC twenty.22 monitors costing twice as much, reinforcing the sense of strong competitive value.
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Specifications
- Frequency Response
- 35- 20,000 Hz
- Sensitivity
- 86db 2.83V @ 1m
- Minimum Impedance
- 4 Ohms
- Max. Power Handling
- 80W
- Crossover Frequency
- 2,500 Hz
- Cabinet Type
- Bass Reflex
- Quality cable terminals
- Banana plugs, bare wire or angled pin connectors
- Size
- 380mm(15 ”) H x 195mm(8”) W x 290mm(11.7 ”) D
- Weight
- 8.6 kgs. (19 lbs.) Each
Manufacturer's Description — Margules
Magenta Monitors are loudspeakers with a professional sound quality. Thanks to their size they adapt to any space, be it a recording studio or a personal habitat.
These two-way loudspeakers include a crossover network that precisely orchestrates the signal, integrating tonality to produce a pleasant, warm sound with wide dynamic range.
Magenta Monitor are ideal for reference audio because of a linear response that creates layers of sonic depth that reveal detail.
They also have a tonal balance with solid bass that effortlessly creates listening experiences with rewarding authority.
Magenta Monitor
Margules designed this monitor to reproduce naturally captivating sound with very high precision.
Thanks to their remarkable linearity in frequency response, they are an ideal solution for professional recording studios and home or office spaces.
Its size, design, and construction allow it to generate multiple layers of sonic depth with spectacular detail, resolving subtle variations in instruments and voices with a relaxed and captivating sound. Monitors can be mounted on a base or shelf.
Its components’ high quality, solid engineering, and careful attention to detail guarantee its homogeneity to obtain a natural image and sound.
These speakers are configured in two ways: low, mid, and high frequencies. The 13 cm drivers are long excursion with a resin hardened carbon fiber paper membrane, and the tweeter is a soft dome. All of the above manages to reproduce practically the full audible range.
These elements are mounted in a box inspired by organic elements: its high-density material is easy to clean, repair, and has hydrophobic properties. Its careful acoustic characteristics minimize the comb effect, corner diffraction, and the sound’s coloration by spurious resonances. The Magenta Monitors reliably reproduce purist recordings, both at home and in the studio, making them a reference.
The advanced crossover is of the first order that takes care of phase coherence and group delay. Margules proprietary technology incorporates sophisticated amplitude and impedance control to deliver the best performance from each transducer, resulting in a consistent response. The sum of all these results in the characteristic Margules sound.
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- Audio Vision San Francisco — online and in-store — San Francisco, California, United States (website)
- AV Luxury Group — online and in-store — Las Vegas, Nevada, United States (website)
- Deep Dive Audio — in-store — Palm Bay, Florida, United States (website)
- Holm Audio — in-store — Chicago, Illinois, United States (website)
- Northern Audio — online and in-store — Pennsylvania, United States (website)
- Salon One Audio — in-store — Ormond Beach, Florida, United States (website)