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Poll: McIntosh main system value.

Your main McIntosh system, how much is it worth?

  • $1000 or less

    Votes: 8 5.0%

  • $1000 to $3000

    Votes: 14 8.8%

  • $3000 to $6000

    Votes: 16 10.0%

  • $6000 to $10,000

    Votes: 10 6.3%

  • $10,000 to $20,000

    Votes: 22 13.8%

  • $20,00 to $40,000

    Votes: 37 23.1%

  • $40,000 to $60,000

    Votes: 21 13.1%

  • $60,000 to $80,000

    Votes: 8 5.0%

  • $80,000 to $100,000

    Votes: 7 4.4%

  • $100,000 to Masterlu

    Votes: 17 10.6%
  • Total voters
    160
  • Poll closed .
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jdandy

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Doing some home inventory this afternoon for a spreadsheet, collecting serial numbers, determining values, etc., I started thinking about the value of my main McIntosh system. The system total would include full retail value of the electronics, speakers, turntable, cartridges, tape machines, interconnects, speaker cables, and rack. Only the main system, no second or third room systems, no CD's, records, tapes, etc. Just the main system.

It made me think a poll might be interesting, just to get an idea of the impact our purchases have made on the audio economy.

So here's the poll. How much is your main system worth?

I'll let it run for a week, then post the dollar total of all systems in the poll.

OOPS..........That's $20,000 to $40,000.........poll won't let me change it. Sorry.
 
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My system is about $23K CDN, by my reckoning. It doesn't sound as good as it could because the room is too narrow and there isn't much flexibility in speaker placement. The upside is - it's McIntosh sound. That makes it sound a lot better than any of the vast array of mid-fi products that my neighbors have in similar sized places.
 
Cool poll. My system just made it into the 20K to 40K category, but that's without me upgrading to McIntosh pre and power amps. yikes!
You might want to change "20,00 to 40,000" to "20,000 to 40,000"
 
Mine is a 10k-15k system, which wasn't bad 20 to 25 years ago. It's probably worth between 6 and 10k today, but upgradeitis (sp?) is setting in. Either get the classic gear serviced/restored or go ahead with something new. Depends on ones priorities.

-Gregory
 
Sometimes it frightens me when I think of how much money I have invested in my system. That concern goes away real quick though as soon as I put a disc in the player.:D
 
salm said:
Sometimes it frightens me when I think of how much money I have invested in my system. That concern goes away real quick though as soon as I put a disc in the player.:D
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Trust me, the Mac club members understand this completely. The cure for sticker shock is the power button. You hit the nail on the head. :thmbsp:
 
It's a best guess....

I took a best guess shot at the poll, I put mine in the 40-60K category. It's tough to say what a system is really worth though, there's s many factors to consider. Just a few of them-age of some of the equipment, and the cost to replace some of these with today's dollars, (some of it may be really classic, or hard to replace at yesterday's prices) determining the value of custom and/or home built furnishings and fittings, and then of course the interconnects, geez I'm not even sure how many of them there are. But a 20K spread does allow for some error. So, I'd say mine falls somewhere in there. Of course, our CD/media collections could drive up the value of our setups fairly substantially, depending on how large the collection. Per Dan's guidelines, I didn't figure these in.

Then you have all of our precious time-the blood, sweat and tears we put into our rigs.

In spite of all the variables, it's a interesting poll nevertheless.

Pete
 
I'll be moving up a value bracket in the poll once I sell the Watt Puppy 8's and get the XRT1K's. I don't mind the price bracket things but its the damn forms I fill out when the last category choice is "65 or older".
 
Vintage

Some of us can only afford the vintage stuff.

But, if you're stuck in 1974 anyway, that's ok! :music:
 
I guess it depends on how you value some of the items, current replacement price, price we paid. There is a big difference in what I paid for my speakers and what they now list for with the Euro taking its toll. Too much, but not enough!!
 
This is probably on the low end for this board. New retail mine would be around $21,000 CND. Thanks to Audiogon and the weak American dollar I've spent much less.
 
What scares me is that I still need gear to round things out, and that puts me in the next (very broad) band:yikes:
 
Including cables and power conditioners my system was a surprising 40-60k category. Hope my wife doen't see this post.:D

I'm not done yet because I have upgrade-itis for the newer Mc goodies.
 
DR. JAM said:
Including cables and power conditioners my system was a surprising 40-60k category. Hope my wife doen't see this post. :D
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The poll is cruising right along. Happy to see so many responses.

DR. JAM got it right. I think we forget (ok,.....keep secret) how much money goes into our systems, and when we actually look at the numbers it can be a surprise. Like Pete said, this doesn't even begin to touch the value of our music collections (or movie collections for the DVD buffs). The blood, sweat, and tears, of course, are priceless, although once the music begins to flow, so are the rewards.

I'm not one who is able to plunk down $50K all at once for a complete system, telling the dealer to bring it and set it up tomorrow. No way. I pick up a piece of McIntosh (ok.......sometimes two pieces) at a time and work them into the system, selling older pieces or moving them somewhere else in the house. This happens over time. When I do sit down and look at my main system, and figure out the actual dollar value it is a surprise, and something to be proud of at the same time. There are huge numbers of audio and music enthusiasts, but the McIntosh club is special. The cream always rises to the top. It is not unusual for a MacMan to have 5 to 10 times the average system dollars tied up in his system. There is no doubt about it, McIntosh folks dance to their own drum beat. It is a damn good sounding drum beat, too. :yes:
 
jdandy said:
The poll is cruising right along. Happy to see so many responses.

DR. JAM got it right. I think we forget (ok,.....keep secret) how much money goes into our systems, and when we actually look at the numbers it can be a surprise. Like Pete said, this doesn't even begin to touch the value of our music collections (or movie collections for the DVD buffs). The blood, sweat, and tears, of course, are priceless, although once the music begins to flow, so are the rewards.

I'm not one who is able to plunk down $50K all at once for a complete system, telling the dealer to bring it and set it up tomorrow. No way. I pick up a piece of McIntosh (ok.......sometimes two pieces) at a time and work them into the system, selling older pieces or moving them somewhere else in the house. This happens over time. When I do sit down and look at my main system, and figure out the actual dollar value it is a surprise, and something to be proud of at the same time. There are huge numbers of audio and music enthusiasts, but the McIntosh club is special. The cream always rises to the top. It is not unusual for a MacMan to have 5 to 10 times the average system dollars tied up in his system. There is no doubt about it, McIntosh folks dance to their own drum beat. It is a damn good sounding drum beat, too. :yes:
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Amen, Dan...amen. :yes:

Pete
 
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