McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer

I remember in the old days, Mac reps would come to local events to test their Mac equipment and compare the results to any who would bring their equipment in to compete.  My Citation amp and power amp had much better numbers by far than Macs.  ....don't know how that relates to the reproduced sound, but in the numbers game, their performance was far below my stuff.

ocdmikey is the same clown who lost out on distributing of Denafrips products and went on YouTube blasting the company and their products.  Really appeared to be sour grapes. Maybe he pissed of Mac as well.

Truth be told for the longest time I dismissed Mac as just high priced home theater gear. I finally heard a SS Mac rig paired with some big ass Electrostats and I woulda swore it was a tubed system. Impressive. 

I love my MA8900. Outperforms the Vintage Nakamichi I had before. Not saying much, but if you don't believe me, listen to my Belle Klipsch. They love it too.

I am running a McIntosh c53 preamp, mc452 amp NAD c658 streamer McIntosh mct500 sacd and KEF Blade speakers. The sound is absolutely amazing. The wet blanket analogy is just not right. This system is very musical and very non fatiguing. I have listened to these speakers on arcam amps and didn’t care for it. All I know is that when I put on whatever I’m in the mood for and turn it up, it makes me smile. Happy listening!😎🎶