McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer

Love, hate or indifferent ( which is hard) from just an industrial design POV The stuff is visually stunning. And yes built like and as heavy.

When those turntables came out a few years ago with the green platters! my GOD was there nothing more beautiful!

And how can you not like big sexy blue meters!! How many of those classic Mac amps were sold because of them.  A lot!

Those glossy glass face plates.......

Just gorgeous sexy looking gear. 

Taste in sound is subjective. And yes it is the gear of choice for Doctors and Dentists, they need stuff to listen to just like the rest of us.

I have never owned but have certainly lusted over a few of their pieces.

 Parasound Mono-block's ( or a Denafrips whatever) won't get you laid..... 

We must think Hilde the OP to have put this video here to awake our attention...

He knows very well that the focus on the gear is the main FIRST necessity when we create our own system but it is also our first limitation when we begin...This limitations or characteristic of our gear choice will be compensate by the acoustic correct tuning for them anyway...

Acoustic is the thing that matter more than any gear choice because any relatively good choice of gear will do...

But the ultimate S.Q. will come from acoustic treatment and control not from the gear...

People dont understand that really, it is normal, they NEVER did a room by tuning it to assist the gear by themselves, then they never contemplate the complete transformation of the gear... COMPLETE transformation...Going from a nude room to a room made synergetically to serve the specific gear for our specific ears... At the end the objective result is also a completely subjective one... It is NOT a contradiction it is a PROCESS....

Wow, the OP hit a response grand slam with this one. I can't imagine why he was so taken with this odd little 'editorial', but, it brings to mind a point that many of us have thought about at one time or another.

From my experience, I can’t argue with that notion. Who hasn't looked at Mac stuff at one time or another & just said wow? Knowing better doesn’t stop me from having always wanted a room with a gorgeous Mac Stack, but when reality sets in, I know I’d just be buying some really cool looking and expensive decoration when that money would be better served buying something sonically spectacular.

Mac guys are hard core right? The real "Marantz" crowd makes Mac guys look like beggars in the streets. Talk about hard core. THEY love their Marantz Tube gear. Try to buy, some of that gear.. They don't even list their gear any more, they just pass it amongst themselves. They don't even call it gear. :-)

How does it really sound? Like Marantz tube gear. Yup sure does.

Regards

We Sansui cultists eat any Marantz or McIntosh guy each day....

Their gear is chicken shit...Anyway we eat them....

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