Stuff You Tried To Love

I always wanted McIntosh stuff from when I way back in college (the 1970's), finally had the house and the money to get an amp and pre (sometime in the early 2000's) and never liked them. I thgough it was me or my other equipment, but nothing made it sound good. This is just my expereience and opinion. Loved the looks though.

Now the last time I said something against McIntosh stuff, even though I said clearly it was just my opinion,  I was insulted to the point that I made a  complaint to the moderator. She took the thread down. I am hoping that doesn't happen again, but wanted to add to this thread, which I find interesting. 

@secretguy .....yeah, in the 1800's, tube anything was pretty rare... ;)

It started to improve in the 20th C, finally going bonkers here into the 21st.

I still swear at my crystal hairwire driven tuner tho'....😏

The separation between channels is insane....

chayro

03-07-2024 6:46pm

I know we talk a lot about confirmation bias- we buy something and then convince ourselves we like it. Or something like that.

That’s something, but it’s not confirmation bias.

cleeds

5,590 posts

03-07-2024 at 09:09pm

… I’d probably still have both of those components if confirmation bias was as powerful as some suggest.

And that’s not how confirmation bias works.

toro3

287 posts

03-08-2024 at 05:51am

… Confirmation bias? 100%. But confirmation bias slowly goes away, too.

Also not how confirmation bias works.

Just FYI, fellas.

That happened to me with a McIntosh amp and preamp. I gave them about six months, a period where I tried different cables and different speaker positions. To be fair, it was a great sounding combo and I loved the look, but it just wasn't checking all the boxes for my personal taste in the way I wanted my system to sound. Luckily, I don't suffer from confirmation bias and I didn't take too bad of a beating when I sold them. I do suffer from buyer's remorse, and I can safely say that the amount of pain you derive from it is directly proportional to the amount it cost you to inflict it upon yourself. 🤑

An SPL Phonos preamp. Beautiful well made piece of gear, but its sound just clashed with my McIntosh amp and preamp.