McIntosh Amp Ratings

An interesting observation I had made about mcintosh specs which I believe a one of the contributing factors to making them more universal and tube sounding is partially the autoformer deal, but also they have very low damping factor in comparison to esoteric Solid state amps… Most of them are like 100 to 150… Big amps with tons of juice that everybody seems to get off on have 600 or 2000 damping factor, to me these amps are mostly toughted as " More defined bass" or "Tighter" but to me they sound more constipated, and many times less organic than most Mcintosh designs.

Also being the damping factor is so low on them it seems that’s really the one Spec that matches up to most tube designs, which might be part of the key they seem to be more of that musical and accepted sound. I don't really know, but just an observation.

Arthur
Aball
I guess that is the best way to describe..Natural, I feel much more Power in bass from Tube amps.. And have also from Mcintosh amps, but to be fair most of the Mcintosh amps I have heard were using Mcintosh preamps with Attenuation of the Bass knob or loudness control..But still they have a very full midrange and vocals, I have never really bought into the Mosfet argument either, I have owned several and they never quite did it for me.. I believe all Mcintosh are Bi-polar correct? I have found them more natural devices in most amps I have owned, but thats a whole other argument, and who cares anyway?

I don't own mcintosh and I do not necessarily defend them as being the best, just interesting and how I feel that they do give more of a Tube character to loads driven than that of most extreme cost SS amps. Again it was just an observation being that Mcintosh amps at the very hi price points are some of if not the only Solid state amps with super low damping factor.