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RE: The old McIntosh XR series

Those old Mac speakers really sucked. I don't think that anything could be done to fix their horrible sound.

The old JBL's (L100, etc) and old AR's (AR3a, etc) for example were designed for totally different tastes and were just fine as long as you recognized that and shopped accordingly.

Nothing could/would help the Macs. Even those with hearing defects and/or poor taste had problems liking them. Notice that they weren't around for very long.

One of my friends was a Mac dealer and managed an audio shop located in Bethesda, MD (Montgomery county, one of the highest per-capita income areas in the US back then) in the early 1970's. He would laugh when he told me that the average customer who purchased an all McIntosh system (including those horrible speakers) back then was usually a wealthy doctor who had no particular musical tastes, just wanted "the best". Called them "the rich mans Bose". ;-)


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