Club McIntosh! Yeah, big green and blue!!!

**Alaric** · 15 November 2015, 13:33 Sunday

I saw this and fell in lust.

**Alaric** · 15 November 2015, 13:58 Sunday

OK , I just perused the McIntosh site. I shall now go buy a Powerball ticket. Before I follow the links at the bottom of the page , like Wadia , acoustic research , Sonus Faber , etc.. Daaaaamn.

I clicked on an Oppo ad from HTG , too. Holy crap! They have really expanded their line! Planar headphones!? Methinks the days of Oppo being "cheap" high quality audio have passed.

**Lex** · 15 November 2015, 20:10 Sunday

I saw one of those yesterday, it was gorgeous. As was everything I saw by McIntosh, the stuff was gorgeous. Well, I am not sure it was a 50th anniversary piece, but it might have been since it looked pretty much like that. Wonderful.

**Alaric** · 15 November 2015, 21:24 Sunday

The regular version has a stainless steel chassis , with the gold on the anniversary model. I know McIntosh makes some seriously powerful tube gear , but their little ones , like that , still make a hefty 75 watts per channel. The KT88 tubes should be able to handle a fair variety of speakers since McIntosh's Autoformers deliver the same power at 8 and 4 ohms. I have no idea what the prices are anymore , but I'd sure like to hear one.

**Lex** · 22 November 2015, 09:38 Sunday

Hey, speaking from a guitar amp perspective, you'd be amazed at what even less than 50 tube watt amps can do. I have a 1/5/18 watt Hughes and Kettner guitar amp that is pretty amazing driving 2 12" speakers. I had a nice integrated tube amp once. But I don't think it was the best, I finally sold it, as it was difficult to divide my system up using tube and solid state.

But I could see a nice little separate listening room for this with my Concertos and my M & K subwoofer, or a nice REL sub. Very musical they are.

**Alaric** · 23 November 2015, 12:20 Monday

I would love to have the "little" McAmp. Unfortunately , they are pushing $5000 used. That is a little (OK a lot) rich for my blood. In fact , the only way I'm buying a $5000 amp this year would be selling my blood , and I'm fair certain I don't have $5K worth! LOL

**Kevin P** · 24 November 2015, 13:40 Tuesday

OMG... I'd sell body parts for that amp, but nothing on me is worth even $50, and then I'd be dead and wouldn't be able to enjoy it anyway.

Tube amps sound great with less power since they distort in a more pleasant fashion when overdriven compared to SS amps. As I'm sure Lex knows, that's how they make "that" electric guitar sound.

**Alaric** · 25 November 2015, 00:51 Wednesday

No need to settle for less power with McIntosh's tube farms. 75 watt monoblocks , anyone?

Need more? How about a pair of 300 watt monos? LOL

I used to know a guy with two , 250 wpc MFA stereo valve amps that he used to bi amp a pair of B&W 801s. 1000 watts of tubey goodness. With Dark Side Of The Moon on the SOTA , the ceiling mounted bike rack in the garage came down. Scared the hell out of us , as we were researching the correlation between music volume and volume of beer consumed. (They are closely related. LOL)

**Lex** · 02 December 2015, 12:12 Wednesday

I would have to sell music instruments and or what photo gear I have left to do significant hardware purchase. I'm spent.

That tube amp is a Monster Lee. Funny on the bike rack and beer... lol.

Club McIntosh! Yeah, big green and blue!!!

Club McIntosh! Yeah, big green and blue!!!

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