@stringreen has it right. Mc is BEAUTIFUL and pretty much always has been (very old Mc stuff is ugly, but so was everything back then--Marantz, etc.)
BUT, as I have posted before, it simply did not SOUND very good on revealing speakers like Maggies. I LOVE their Sequerra-like display on the thing they made that showed performance--forgot its name as that was 45 years ago--and clearly they are built like battleships. So was/is(?) Mark Levinson.
Both these companies products did not hold up when SOUND was compared. Well built, yes. Broke like other brands, yes. Good service, yes. Expensive/showy, yes.
Now, today, they have different products, so you have to judge for yourself if their new stuff is better SOUNDING than their old stuff.
Cheers!
BUT, as I have posted before, it simply did not SOUND very good on revealing speakers like Maggies. I LOVE their Sequerra-like display on the thing they made that showed performance--forgot its name as that was 45 years ago--and clearly they are built like battleships. So was/is(?) Mark Levinson.
Both these companies products did not hold up when SOUND was compared. Well built, yes. Broke like other brands, yes. Good service, yes. Expensive/showy, yes.
Now, today, they have different products, so you have to judge for yourself if their new stuff is better SOUNDING than their old stuff.
Cheers!