Dave B.
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Dave
Dave
Honestly, I don't think these companies can do it all. Sonus Faber is owned by the same parent company as is Audio Research and Sumiko. S-F makes great speakers and that is all they do.
If I was McIntosh, I wouldn't pay much attention to the opinions expressed here as most of us aren't in the market for new speakers anyway. Heck, I've owned three pair of McIntosh speakers (two pairs of XR-5s and my XRT22s) and the most current pair is three decades old. Mc would have closed up shop waiting on me to buy a new pair speakers . . .All of their recent marketing moves (especially the two new products that they introduced last month) seem to be pointless and self-defeating. Even the McIntosh fans on this board gave a big "who cares" to those two products. This seems to be more of the same for a company that's going to kind of evaporate just as Oppo and Shure have done over the past couple of months...
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Dave
. . . Anybody know of McIntosh Dealer in Denver carrying the SF and McIntosh stuff. Would love to hear MC611s and MC1.25KW amps.
Thanks both appear worth a visit.
Back when Gordon was running the company Listen up and he came to understanding that they would agree to dis agree. The last time I was at the main store on Pearl st in Denver they didn't have anything I really liked. They weren't a good Mac store then either. I think that was 2013. I prefer to nose around at LMC in Phoenix, but I'm not fond of them either. There was a Store near San Diego I liked, the store in my Home Town in Santa Rosa closed down, The people in Downtown San Francisco are great as our the folks in Portland, and San Antonio. The little store in Eugene was friendly and of course Audio Classics has always been my favorite. There are a few stores near Palm Springs, Dallas and Houston I cruise through from time to time, too.
You definitely want to stop at this shop as well ... https://www.homeaudiosound.com/I would like to seriously listen to the XRT2.1K’s to see how close the SF guys came to heritage McIntosh Line Arrays sound.
Owning the XR290s, XRT20’s and XR19s it is hard to imagine giving up the line source array benefits of clarity and dynamics. But always willing to listen to other flavors.
I am going to be in Denver for Eagles reboot with Vince Gill along with Jimmy Buffet at the end of the month. While there dropping by Boulder to the PS audio factory to listening to their IRS V listening room to hear what Arnie Nudell’s Dipole line arrays offer comparred to Roger Russell’s best forward radiating line arrays. The opportunity will show me the PS Audio’s FPGA Direct Stream DAC and BHK amps. Supposedly they are getting closer to a speaker Finalization that employs Armie’s last speaker design he was developing before passing. Not ready to give up my big honkin McIntosh amps and speakers. Being open minded is a plus as is hearing different gear.
Anybody know of McIntosh Dealer in Denver carrying the SF and McIntosh stuff. Would love to hear MC611s and MC1.25KW amps.
Yes thanks a place to hear a pair of XRT26 and JBL Everests in same store. A rare opportunity.You definitely want to stop at this shop as well ... https://www.homeaudiosound.com/
The easiest way to figure this out is to determine if Mcintosh has engineers for speaker design with the retirement of Carl Van Gelder. I know he helped design the XRT2.1k but who is there now? From the Sonus Faber interview, they didn't really know how to design line arrays. Sonus Faber makes excellent speakers but they don't cover enough range for my use. My speaker are for both home theater and music. Also, I haven't found anything at the price point that image better than my XR200s. I feel that's really the strong point of the speaker.The promotion doesn't exactly put McIntosh speakers in a very favorable light, does it? I wonder if this signals the end of the venerable speaker line from 2 Chambers Street...