McIntosh Labs delivery issues

Why all of a sudden do they all need to be class D farne230?

@roxy54 fair enough. I remember certain McIntosh Class A/B amplifiers but as I stated in the beginning, my familiarity with McIntosh goes back to the 60's and 70's. Not to mention I'm beginning to get senile.

@farne230 I had an acquaintance who owned Krell and absolutely loved them.

Your not the only one "goofyfoot". When I owned the ML product two decades plus ago, I ran the system with a two channel digital amp manufactured by Mark Leviston, it worked very well, a huge amp, with a line-stage Audio Research preamp. 

@farne230 a friend of mine is refurbishing a pair of Levinson mono blocks. I'm still waiting to hear them with Quad 57's.

I recently got the McIntosh MC611’s paired with Revel Salon 2’s. I was initially planning on getting the mc462. At my dealer I did direct A/B comparisons of the mc462 with Parasound jc5 on Salon 2’s. The McIntosh I preferred because of a more natural midrange and larger sound. I ended up upping it to the 611’s and I’m absolutely thrilled. The propaganda of McIntosh not being real high end or having a veiled sound is completely outdated. $16,000 for a pair of awesome looking and built monoblocks with as sure a bet as anybody else on repairability and dealer support plus truly excellent sound is a better value than any other brand I can think of.