Good or bad, McIntosh speakers,whether the dimminitive ML10 or the XRT290, always have provided bass, deep, low distortion, sometimes excessive, but they made bass.
This has always posed a challenge for the McIntosh system designer and the Mac owner in selecting a turntable. Many popular mainstream turntable do not work well with McIntosh speaker systems because the turntables do not have enough isolation from the bass shaking the room.
There is a ongoing thread where the owner is experiencing the negative effects of a turntable not up to the task of isolating the record from the speakers response.
I have always been partial to a floating sub chassis suspension like in the designs from SOTA, Thorens, and Revox as well as a dozen others that do a good job achieving isolation.
Yes there are some turntables that combine mass and big rubber feet that do a decent job of achieving this isolation but there are many popular designs that do a miserable job at acheiving this isolation.
The mentioned Rotel I would expect to be in the later category, and I was a Rotel dealer at one time.
