Anyone heard Cornwall IVs with McIntosh tube gear?

Yes, these were my assumptions.  I respect but don't get super jazzed with Mac SS gear--although I've never owned it.  I do wonder how my Cornwall IVs might sound with Mac tube pre/power. 

Like they should...OP... That's what all the older Klipsch used as a standard, Mac, and Marantz... It was just the way it was.. Everything else was kinda in second so to speak.. HS Scott, Fisher, Heath, Dynaco, good stuff. 

The standard was Mac, Marantz, Garrard, Thoren, Klipsch, JBL, Jensen, Altec. The true time of tubes.. there was no SS.. Just starting circuit boards. Everything was point to point or straight wire (turret board) point to point.

I was a Jensen Imperial and Mac guy at 15.. LOL long time ago..

Regards

Fisher 500C mated to Cornwalls ( vertical horns, mirror imaged ), when I was a kid.... a long time ago. A great combo. Grew up listening to Mac tubes with Klipsch ( a match made in heaven back then ). I say back then, because now, " I prefer " not using a preamp, and enjoy the noise free, black background, vice grip balls and speed of good class A ss driving Klipsch Lascalas. 

It’s hard to generalize how an amp that paired well with klipsch  40 years ago would work with modern Cornwalls. Klipsch has come so far with improved designs that although the underlying aspects of horn sound remain, the glaring issues have all but been eliminated . So people who aren’t familiar with the “new and improved” sound approach this topic with the thought that an amp must be able to “tame” the speakers. Because it’s always been that way.

McIntosh may sound great with the CW IV, but it won’t be because of some storied history. So many other choices may sound better.

Oz

A First Watt F5 would be a good match power-wise!