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In Reply to: RE: Does anyone understand McIntosh? When I was in college ... posted by acres verde on May 21, 2016 at 07:06:54:
Based on personal observation, I think it's pretty safe to say that Mac is the gear of choice for the discerning audiophile who listens with his eyes.I used to follow that same thinking for their larger solid state gear of the 70s and early 80s..They used to sound somewhat brittle or hard as we call it but then came the late 80s and 90s and their design philosophy changed a bit by going to pnp/npn outputs where as they used to be straight npn outputs.They also implement the power guard differently and the driver and phase splitter transistors are also different than before and are running deeper in class A.
The MAC tubed gear like the MC-275 and MC-3000 are first rate amps..Mac leans on sonic correctness in all their amps today but like with anything,you have to match them with the right load..Many speaker companies at the CES shows you go to feature Mac amps when demonstrating their products..This wasn't the case back in the 70s and early 80s..Mac has a lot more money today and that helps.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
Edits: 05/21/16
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- If you speaking of stuff made in the 70s and early 80s - Michael Samra 21:22:46 05/21/16 (0)
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