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In Reply to: RE: Auditioned a McIntosh MAC5200 yesterday posted by airtime on November 10, 2017 at 12:22:08
You listened to their cheapest integrated which doesn't have the output transformers. The units with the output transformers gives that lush and rich McIntosh house sound. You missed the boat by a few miles.
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Mac does have it's "house" sound, same as many other brands, you either like Mac's sound or not. I like it better than some but personally it's not my type of sound to have in my system.
I did hear a Mac set up with the new reference preamp and driving some large Sonus Faber. That was a good sounding system. A bit wooly in the bass but we thought it may be the room.
I don't know how some of the integrated amps do with B&W, I heard the kilowatt monoblocks push the big Nautilus, I have never heard B&W come alive like that before. More of a bass response I ever heard Classe or ARC get out of them.
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