{"id":18857,"date":"2024-02-23T12:28:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T12:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/margules.com\/margules-i-240-review-part-time-audiophile-copy-3\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T19:48:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T19:48:39","slug":"margules-i-240-review-part-time-audiophile-copy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/margules-i-240-review-part-time-audiophile-copy-3\/","title":{"rendered":"This was an all-Margules system, and it sounded fantastic. Margules Audio at FLAX 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Margules Audio | FLAX 2024<\/h3>\n

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This was an all-Margules system, and it sounded fantastic. It\u2019s rare in my experience that a system from one brand can truly stand out. Small manufacturers generally specialize, right? Stretching resources to make speakers, amps, and DACs is often a recipe for failure\u2014but not for Mexico City\u2013based Margules.<\/p>\n

The 30th anniversary version of the U-280\u00a0SC amplifier ($12,000, all prices in USD) is an all-tube, KT88-based design with auto-biasing that can crank out 25Wpc in triode mode, although the flip of a switch changes it to 50Wpc in pentode mode. For this demonstration, Margules was running the amp in triode mode, powering a pair of brand-new-for-the-show Overture Century speakers ($19,900 per pair). The Overture Century contains an AMT tweeter and a 6.5\u2033 midrange-woofer with a cone made from multi-laminated papyrus.<\/p>\n

The dynamic snap that the Margules folks were getting out of this pair of (admittedly large) bookshelf speakers was startling. Crisp start-stop transitions through the midrange and an open, airy, unforced treble combined to present a miles-deep soundstage, floating images far beyond the boundaries of the speakers…<\/p>\n

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Jason Thorpe – Sound Stage Global<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.soundstageglobal.com\/index.php\/shows-events\/florida-international-audio-expo-2024-tampa-usa\/1136-fiae-2024-margules-draws-me-in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Margules Audio | FLAX 2024   This was an all-Margules system, and it sounded fantastic. It\u2019s rare in my experience that a system from one brand can truly stand out. Small manufacturers generally specialize, right? Stretching resources to make speakers, amps, and DACs is often a recipe for failure\u2014but not for Mexico City\u2013based Margules. The 30th anniversary version of the U-280\u00a0SC amplifier ($12,000, all prices in USD) is an all-tube, KT88-based design with auto-biasing that can crank out 25Wpc in triode mode, although the flip of a switch changes it to 50Wpc in pentode mode. For this demonstration, Margules was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-margules","category-reviews","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18857"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18863,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857\/revisions\/18863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}