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In Reply to: RE: Auditioned a McIntosh MAC5200 yesterday posted by stereo5 on November 11, 2017 at 13:37:18:
You missed what I was saying. Everyone knows that CD or CD/SACD mechanisms for most players come from one of the OEM mech producers. The point that I made was that the entire mechanical and electronic features of the McIntosh player were TEAC. The only Mcintosh parts were the aluminium extrusion side panels, the top and bottom plates and the glass fluorescent front panel. It was,effectively, a complete TEAC transport in another box.In comparison the only Esoteric components in a dCS transport are the mechanical parts plus the optics and the Sony SACD encryption decoding chip. Everything else is from dCS themselves. BTW at the time of the McIntosh transport that I am talking about dCS were using Sony mechanisms.
If I remember correctly at the time of this transport McIntosh were charging several times the retail price of the the TEAC that lived inside the shell.
Oh, and it didn't sound great either. Maybe things are better with their current digital offerings. I have to admit that the transport I am talking about was a relatively early effort from them (or TEAC).
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