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McIntosh at RMAF

chuckworkb

chuckworkb

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I just thought I'd mention Mcintosh being at the RMAF this past weekend.

I have to say the sound I heard from the McIntosh room with the new 301 Amps, 2500 Pre Amp, D100 and other gear ( Ron C can tell you all the pieces of gear they had there) sounded really fantastic. Oh, and the new headphone amp looks and sounds great also. That was very nice.

It was also nice to see their gear other rooms as well which also sounded, and of course looked great. The only exception was when someone decided to play some crazy head banging heavy metal stuff on a MC452 in one of the rooms, and I just had to leave. LOL I must be getting old.

I'd never been to RMAF before so it was an interesting experience.
 
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During RMAF, the room with the 452 was shared with McIntosh and a local dealer, Listen Up . At these shows the public ebbs in and out and everyone has their own taste in music, volume level and so on. We try to change it up but sometimes get tied up with a customer.
When Mr. Silverman came in and we were playing an obscure live radio broadcast recording of Sviatoslav Richter, this may not have been everyone's cup of tea, music wise. Ditto for urban contemporary,country, jazz and all the other stuff we played.
Please see attached pics. The table top system with XR50 McIntosh speakers are the new WADIA 400 watt, a340 mono amps and 321 digital preamp.

Thanks,
Ron-C
 

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For those that went through the whole RMAF show we think 6 or 7 rooms were using some McIntosh gear. MC225 and MC75s from the 1960s were in use along with MT10, a McIntosh Variac as used at the old clinics, etc. Other manufacturers use McIntosh because that is what they have bought for their own systems.

thanks again,
Ron-C
 
I stopped by the McIntosh room and had a great time learning about the new headphone amp, and the soon to be available McIntosh headphones! There were a few other folks in there at the time, so I sat with them and listened to some great music. All in all, a very good time!
 
chuckworkb said:
The only exception was when someone decided to play some crazy head banging heavy metal stuff on a MC452 in one of the rooms, and I just had to leave. LOL I must be getting old.

I'd never been to RMAF before so it was an interesting experience.
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I just cranked up some White Zombie on my office system to party approved levels as a homage to this. Nope, I'm not old yet!
 
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