michaelw4248
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A pleasure - I've been browsing around here for sometime, always hovering and never engaging. I figured I'd change that today! I'm posting in the McIntosh forum because that certainly seemed most appropriate. I was baptized into McIntosh-ism through my late father (six years gone). My father worked at MIT in his early twenties (1960s) specializing in analog engineering. Apparently, him and his colleague used to go down to some government warehouse full of electronic equipment in Taunton, MA. Somehow my old man and his colleague had access to these warehouses through their affiliation with MIT faculty. This warehouse is apparently where my father stumbled upon a McIntosh 275 (early 60s). He 'acquired' it (refunding their budget for electronic equipment afterwards) and brought it home. Eventually, he went on to acquire a C20 Pre-Amp, a Marantz 10B tuner, and a Thorens TD 124 turntable. My father maintained all the equipment personally (given his analog background). However, to my father, the system represented an ode of sorts to the pinnacle of sound engineering in the late 50s - 60s and not some epic tribute to his love for music. The system, for as much as I witnessed, remained largely unused. It sat pristine and safe in the living room for both my childhood and adolescence.
When my father died before I was about to start college, I inherited the equipment. I have had all of it refurbished at this point. My signal chain for digitally sourced music is MacMini Server -->MHA 100 (DAC)-->C20 PreAmp-->Mc275-->definitive technology BP 7004 towers. Otherwise I have the tuner and the turntable hooked up to the C20 directly. I'm using IsoAcoustics' ISO-Pucks for feet on the Thorens - it's a spring based table so it really picks up resonance from footfalls on my hardwood floor. I was skeptical but the pucks really did completely solve the issue. I'm using acoustic panels that were cut to silhouette the speakers and I have everything controlled via Spotify or iTunes, depending on what I'm using. CD Player is a MVP 851 and the switch box is a Beresford. I'm actually running a dual system, using a switch box to separate two amps from the same pair of speakers, so in some of the pics you'll see that. Just thought I'd share, excited to chat.
When my father died before I was about to start college, I inherited the equipment. I have had all of it refurbished at this point. My signal chain for digitally sourced music is MacMini Server -->MHA 100 (DAC)-->C20 PreAmp-->Mc275-->definitive technology BP 7004 towers. Otherwise I have the tuner and the turntable hooked up to the C20 directly. I'm using IsoAcoustics' ISO-Pucks for feet on the Thorens - it's a spring based table so it really picks up resonance from footfalls on my hardwood floor. I was skeptical but the pucks really did completely solve the issue. I'm using acoustic panels that were cut to silhouette the speakers and I have everything controlled via Spotify or iTunes, depending on what I'm using. CD Player is a MVP 851 and the switch box is a Beresford. I'm actually running a dual system, using a switch box to separate two amps from the same pair of speakers, so in some of the pics you'll see that. Just thought I'd share, excited to chat.