Why do no audio enthusiasts use McIntosh?

Bumping thread into 2021. I have an ma8900 and love it. It is my first high-end integrated amp but it has a wonderful sound. Warm, well articulated, excellent sound stage, controlled.  Running vintage Polk Monitor 7s I have owned since new in 1989 and a Sunfire True Super Jr sub.  I recapped and replaced resistors on the Polks but will eventually replace those with B&W or Sonus Faber.  I’m looking forward to hearing it with a better set of speakers.  I also spent a lot of time researching Accuphase, Mark Levinson, Gryphon, Hegel, Bryston, Krell, etc. and decided on the Mc.

I owned AR, Rowland, ML, Mitner, Krell, and I have had my McIntosh MC 402 longer than any of them, and the reason why the amp sounds good on very speaker i have owned from dynamic speaker, Electrostatic, and now open baffle. I never thought I own McIntosh but when I heard one I had to admit it sounded dam good, and I would never have given a McIntosh a try due to hearing for years McIntosh was for the doctors and lawyers, well is just not true. The sound I hear sounds like groups are playing in the room, the amp is neither bright or dark, it does give body and weight to the music, and with the audio transformers, I can match any speaker to my amp and get the best sound with either of 8,4 or 2 ohm taps, and that is a full 400 watts on any of the taps used to connect my speakers. 

Bob Weir Grateful Dead 


 

 

I think that there is a thread dissing McIntosh all the time is an interesting thing. Boy, they seem to be doing pretty well these days. They must be doing something right. why is that? why is there always a thread like this? i think it’s actually a good promotion of McIntosh to be honest. Geez after reading all these negative posts I think I have to see what this McIntosh is all about. They must be the benchmark if everyones comparing to them. lol  Their equipment sure holds its value.  Does anybody elses?  lol

I have always admired McIntosh since the late 1970's even had a mac dealer in Des Moines Iowa. Well, it is 2019 I am scanning A'gon here and see an ad for a pair of Mac Mc30 mono tube amps. i write and then we speak by phone, I ask if I can come and audition the Mc30's? he says yes, only 2hours away.  I am a huge vinyl fan and assume a tube amp guy is also. I ask what turntable does he own?

No table and no CD no preamp he only streams his audio. I know my destiny is to rescue these mono amps.  I inspect and listen they had been restored and NOS tubes, they came home with me for just over $4k!! Then within 2 weeks I again on A'gon find refurbished Mac C20 preamp with the brass bar $2K again I save the preamp.

My Mac gear now plays my jazz lp's through my Nola Boxer S2's and will be part of my legacy to my son.