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RE: Time To Simplify

Posted by BigguyinATL on December 29, 2016 at 09:28:35:
If you do not listen at levels similar to live concerts then you can be served by a good integrated amplifier. I have paired MMG's with a nice little Teac integrated AI-501DA 90Watts Class D and it works well - Lot's of digital ins - but no phono preamp. Sounds as

A friend/customer has has done what you did - move to a place with a smaller listening room and popped for a MA8000 from Mcintosh - and asked me to set it up a couple days ago. He has new 3.7's too but uses phono as well - my guess is this amp is as good (or better) than my MC352. Plus state of the art D-A and will last him... well like a Mcintosh.

The MAC is not my kind of simple - but this unit will serve him well should he wrap a full HT system around it sometime later. I'm working on a new rack for him. And the tone controls are very useful as we found - not only for adjusting for some room issues - but also to tweak some source recording deficiencies.

The best feature is the input level trim. This way his four sources can be "balanced so when you switch the levels mostly match. Only thing missing from the MAC are Bluetooth RCVR (no biggy) and Network inputs (we use his OPPO.)