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In Reply to: RE: McIntosh is high end? posted by genungo on December 02, 2014 at 10:47:22
McIntosh makes great gear, musical sounding and their amps are 2nd to none. With the autotransformers that can match any speaker design including electrostatics.
PJB
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For some reason, the Big Mac amp that used to be here at my local hifi shop had trouble driving their large KEF floorstanders. A much smaller and cheaper Marantz amp they in stock had no problems driving the very same speakers.
I'm not saying that the Mac amp was not great sounding (with the proper speakers), well built, and cool looking. I would have loved to have owned that amp. It's just that, autoformers or no, it couldn't drive certain speaker loads very well...
Define "trouble driving". Your fans are dying to know...
Mostly, I'd define it as producing thin bass and discombobulated mids and highs.
And don't ask me to define "discombobulated", because deep inside I'm sure you know what that is.
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This was a few years ago, but if I remember correctly it was the MC-302 stereo amp w/ 300 watts per channel. I am not certain which taps were used but I was under the impression that they had tried everything, to no avail.
Great witness!
Well, my name isn't Inspector Columbo so I guess I naively trusted in their setup abilities.
Maybe your real name is Inspector Columbo? When I feel your nose poking into my ass-cheeks I imagine that it is...
Columbo was a Lieutenant.
True, but he was constantly inspecting - mostly for incriminating evidence. Just like middleground!Here's another possibility...
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because the lieutenant was almost always correct in his suspicions.
"Almost"? Sorry, that's not quite good enough for AA.Hey, did Colombo ever look in the mirror? His hairdo and general demeanor would suggest not...
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While Columbo's appearance was outwardly disheveled it's generally assumed by enthusiasts that it was a calculated effort on his part as a misdirect to the suspects he was pursuing.
That being said, yes, he did look in mirrors. In Double Exposure (my personal fav episode) he makes several comments to Dr. Keppel (the murderer portrayed by Robert Culp in a performance that can only be described as *MWUAH*) that he's keeping notes of details about the case that just don't add up on his shaving mirror in an effort to keep them top of mind.
An episode you might enjoy would be "Old Fashioned Murder". Columbo winds up inadvertently getting a haircut and style as he questions a hairdresser. In the following scene he questions a man in a watch shop and frequently admires his new hairstyle in a mirror on the display counter.
was an utter failure at driving my Apogee Scintilla speakers. It did not have anywhere near enough current to manage the 1/2 ohm that the speaker would drop to at certain frequencies.
Were those Apogees the only speakers your Macs had trouble driving?
I had JBL 4330's before the Apogees and it drove them perfectly. Before that I had Infinity's and that worked too.
I still admire that Big Mac amp that I could never afford. I love the way those things look and I'm sure they can sound very good - with the right loudspeakers.
could not power the Scintillas....
Many have tried, I'm sure.
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