Does this image give you claustrophobia?

Impressive display of wealth.  Sound-wise, I'll bet my 10k system blows this one away!  (Caveat:  my system in my room).

It's all about the acoustics of the room and speaker placement!  This system seems to commit every sin in the book.

Has anyone else noticed the Ortofon cartridge box on the centre mid shelf, but no turntable in sight?

Can you imagine, how those 64 x midranges and 40 x tweeters could possibly all work in perfect unison without any smearing at all??? they’d have to be ultra matched not to.

https://ucarecdn.audiogon.com/6fc4a677-a038-403d-8f63-fead7daca816/-/autorotate/yes/

From a reviewer " these speaker didn't quite convey the intimacy or focus of say a traditionally well engineered two way system in a near-field environment,"  

Cheers George

Looks like that is where Tekton got their "idea" for their tweeter array.

Different strokes for different folks. WAY too much equipment,speakers set up next to a floor to ceiling entertainment center. I can't imagine very good imaging. Not my cup of tea.

Are those McIntosh speakers with the gazillion midrange drivers?

Ye gads.  I high end store used to sell an expensive iteration of those years ago and they were consistently the most awful sounding speakers in the store. Quality-wise, they reminded me of a big version of a cheap boom box midrange...but just tons of them sending a wall of that bland, grey, low quality tone at me.

Not long ago I was in a high end store that had one of the newer versions of the McIntosh speakers - yet again with the multiple mid drivers.  I threw on some of my CDs and...there it was.  Exactly that awful presentation as I remembered it from years before.  Completely devoid of anything resembling organic, believable or high quality tone.  Just "sound" and lots of it.  (Again, I have no idea of the quality of drivers they use, but the sonic impression to me is that of taking the cheapest drivers from a boombox or cheap sub-sat speaker, placing a lot of them in a box, and just getting a big sonic presentation of low quality sound).

Julie Mullens of TAS heard the new McIntosh speakers with even more mids and tweets driven by McIntosh equipment and was gushing over them. Go figure.

Julie Mullens of TAS heard the new McIntosh speakers with even more minds and tweets driven by McIntosh equipment and was gushing over them. Go figure.

Ask yourself, do they advertise in Tas?
They’ve had many reviews done in the last couple of years?
https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/?search=McIntosh&x=13&y=11

From one listener, to the Mac wall.  "They always had great looking and well built stuff. Unfortunately, it sounded like, well, let's just say less than good."  
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/the-mcintosh-group-introduces-new-products-at-nyc-event-par...

And always getting Golden Ear awards, just a couple here.

https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/brand/news/C52-The-Absolute-Sound

https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/brand/news/C52-and-C47-Golden-Ear-Awards-2018

http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/mcintosh-c52-solid-state-preamplifier/

Cheers George

Might as well call them Golden Goose.

I heard a pair at Audio Classics back in early June when I had to switch my preamp.  I thought they sounded quite nice,  However, nowhere as good as my GE Triton References.  I think they were upwards of 50K for a pair whereas my T Refs were 8500 a pair.  McIntosh should concentrate on electronics.  They already have Sonus Favor under their umbrella.

At least the owner isn’t worried about trying and swapping out cables.