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New Mcintosh Tube/SS Hybrid Integrated Amp
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<blockquote data-quote="Nidri" data-source="post: 813640" data-attributes="member: 1342"><p>TBH I'm not that familiar with Mcintosh equipment. Just thought that a product like this might be of interest to someone.</p><p></p><p>Although this is their first hybrid valve/transistor amp afaik, Mcintosh has a good reputation for quality engineering.</p><p>They also sell some all-valve components, so I think it's highly unlikely that they'd release an amp where the valves are just there for show.</p><p></p><p>"<strong>The preamplifier stage uses two 12AX7a and two 12AT7 vacuum tubes</strong> housed inside stylish protective cages; the <strong>output stage is a direct coupled solid state amplifier</strong> that delivers 100 Watts per channel into 8 Ohm speakers or 160 Watts per channel into 4 Ohm speakers. An <strong>all analog design</strong>, it comes with 2 unbalanced, 1 balanced and 1 Moving Magnet phono input for turntables."</p><p></p><p>The language used here is unambiguous; though the finer details of the design are of course not disclosed.</p><p>If an audio brand were to try to pull the wool over its consumers' eyes, I'd suspect a lot of other brands before Mcintosh. </p><p>(Admittedly this <em>does</em> happen - Google 'Lexicon Oppo'.)</p><p></p><p>That said, the instant warm-up business does raise an eyebrow or two.</p><p></p><p>Finally, yes. The "monogrammed heat sinks [won't] add much to the sound quality either."</p><p>Cosmetic details never do. But then, it's hardly unusual for high(er) end components to feature some or other form of cosmetic refinement.</p><p>Why can't the box that makes nice music also look nice?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nidri, post: 813640, member: 1342"] TBH I'm not that familiar with Mcintosh equipment. Just thought that a product like this might be of interest to someone. Although this is their first hybrid valve/transistor amp afaik, Mcintosh has a good reputation for quality engineering. They also sell some all-valve components, so I think it's highly unlikely that they'd release an amp where the valves are just there for show. "[b]The preamplifier stage uses two 12AX7a and two 12AT7 vacuum tubes[/b] housed inside stylish protective cages; the [b]output stage is a direct coupled solid state amplifier[/b] that delivers 100 Watts per channel into 8 Ohm speakers or 160 Watts per channel into 4 Ohm speakers. An [b]all analog design[/b], it comes with 2 unbalanced, 1 balanced and 1 Moving Magnet phono input for turntables." The language used here is unambiguous; though the finer details of the design are of course not disclosed. If an audio brand were to try to pull the wool over its consumers' eyes, I'd suspect a lot of other brands before Mcintosh. (Admittedly this [i]does[/i] happen - Google 'Lexicon Oppo'.) That said, the instant warm-up business does raise an eyebrow or two. Finally, yes. The "monogrammed heat sinks [won't] add much to the sound quality either." Cosmetic details never do. But then, it's hardly unusual for high(er) end components to feature some or other form of cosmetic refinement. Why can't the box that makes nice music also look nice? [/QUOTE]
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