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Blue meters.
Anyone else brave enough to admit it?
Admitting you have a problem is the first step.
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As a subwoofer amp to drive a pr of AR3a, used as subs, woofer only. I use an outboard Mirage crossover to send LF to the 2100. Wonderful amp in this application. Full range it sounds sterile and 2 dimensional.
Best. Ross
Yes, I'll admit it - a 2105 would be nice-
I would set it up with my c-28 and MR74 and drive the Shahanian Elfs....
love the design and looks never liked their sound
btw the transformer coupled bass really helps when biamping with tubes and set as the damping factor helps with some integration
I must admit, I am also running a fever. But its not just the money, but the WAF :(
Am I reading this correctly? Best Buy a McIntosh dealer? Tell me it ain't so. I remember when getting a dealership had so many conditions, a potential dealer had to be primarily a Mc store and the unspoken agreement was if certain brands were carried the dealership was pulled. They did not their product in say a store that sold primarily Panasonic or Yorx.
Don Brian Levy, J.D.
Toronto ON Canada
My local Best Buy has recently opened two nicely set up demonstration rooms with McIntosh, B&W, Sonus Faber, Classe, and a few other delux brands set up in systems for audition. One of the rooms has B&W 802D and Sonus Faber Aida speakers set up for comparison, driven by huge McIntosh monoblocks. Also set up is an array of top line front end products. Not cheap stuff. Oh, by the way, no discounts from MSRP. Where is the best buy here? There is a small audio dealer in town who has carried B&W products for years. He runs one of two quality audio shops left in business, out of the five that used to operate in my small city/college town. I'll bet he feels stabbed in the back.
If your Best Buy is like the one near me, he shouldn't have to worry. I walked around the Mac and other gear at the store and the salesman standing around didn't say a word to me.
Dave
Dave,
I've experienced the same treatment in the Magnolia section of our local Best Buy store on several occasions in the past. Seems like the "sales people" in Magnolia don't want to be bothered. I've been told by an employee that these guys do not get paid on a commission basis! If that's true I wonder why?
On the other hand the sales staff in the major appliance department of the same store are all over me if I start looking around in their section.
Interesting!
Cheers,
Al
When I was in audio, we helped everyone who walked in the store. I welcomed tire kickers. They often wound up buying. I loved it when someone would say, "I probably can't here the difference".
Dave
Yes, their Magnolia section has McIntosh. I posted a tread in the General Asylum about it.
AB.
I love those meters too! I like them from any manufacturer! It is awesome to watch them.
You DO have a hernia belt? I had that amp for a few years. I call it a box piece. It's nice when you open the box and it's nice when you pack it back in the box.
They use glass front panels - WHY on a 60 pound amp???? If you are buying it from audio classics, which is where I got mine, they will replace the front glass if it arrives broken.
I've had the Mac fever several times in my life and jumped in. It feels good for a while, but in the long run I got some Altec Valencias and some Klipsch Fortes, paired them with some cheaper solid state 15 to 50 watt vintage Japanese receivers, and achieved the same result = Audio Nirvana.
Actually I still do have a Stereotech 1200 Receiver, which is the eqivalent of the Mac 1900 receiver with Japanese parts. But I got it for less than $200 several years ago and it sounds incredible thru the Valencias.
I have not heard Valencias but would think a 300B pairing would be sweet.
Funny only minutes ago, I wiped away several months' accretion of dust from my 7270. The only service it has required since new was the replacement of a burned-out bulb.
At the time, my tech replaced the incandescent lamps with LEDs. The resulting illumination is a little more subdued, but he assured me that the LEDs would last much longer than the original equipment. Considering what has happened to my original equipment spinal discs in the thirty years since my 7270 was new, I'm counting on it.
I must admit to being amused by the disparaging comments about McIntosh equipment posted on this Forum.
I got my 7270 from Audio Classics almost 25 years ago. It's never needed service - bulletproof into any load I've thrown at it, sounding smooth and absolutely effortless.
I can't believe I once carried it up the stairs by myself - unthinkable now. The years have a way of doing that to you, huh?
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