mcintosh MT10 turntable good or not.

Beerdraft -- the cartridge comes with the table and the $2K number comes about, probably as a replacement price from McIntosh (should it become broken). Like the one at CES-2008, so, I've heard.
The Tonearm is alluminum -- probably outsourced like the table components and cartridge.
IMO, I'd take take a couple nice records down to the dealer, and have a pleasant listening session. If you like what you hear, take the deal with the table.

It sounded good to me today when I listened to it in a area not condusive to listening really. I was listening to the mt10 with mcintosh preamp with phono built in along with mcintosh tube amps driving b&w 803's but not in a good listening area. they are more into home theater and I wish they had some of there two channel stuff setup in a good listening room instead of just in the lobby area wide open to everything. They say all the money is going to home theater, sad being I'm a two channel guy.
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I doubt anyone has real experience with this 'table, as it's very new. It sure looks cool, and at way less than half price for a NIB unit I would think this is a no-brainer.

Cheers,
John

I have the project tube box se2 preamp. it has inputs for moving coil cartridges. not sure I understand this. the highest input impedance is 220 ohms on the preamp. the output impedance of the cartridge on the mcintosh sais greater than 200 ohms reccomended 500 ohms. first will my project work at 220 ohms? second if I had a phono pre with the 500 ohm input, is that better and what does this mean? This is way above my level in intelect if you can't tell by my spelling.
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Well obviously after saving so much $$$ on the MT10, you will have plenty left to get yourself a suitable mating phono preamp. You wouldn't mate a Pro-ject turntable with a McIntosh phono preamp would you? It's all about balance. Maybe this dealer will offer you another steal.

Cheers,
John