Not sure what your decision was with your purchase. I recently obtained a MHT200 replacing my vintage McIntosh C26 Preamp and MC2200 Power amp. I plan on using the external processor inputs for the new codecs for HD sound. The MHT200 does not have the same sound as the vintage pieces I have. I personally believe it's because the multi channel amps transfer almost all low frequences to the sub woofers. Without an available tool to measure frequency response I can only assume that the stereo portion to my fronts plays down to 80hz or so. My sub picks up the rest. Aside from that, the sound from the MHT200 is clean and superb. I was planning to use the MHT200 preamped to my fronts but I found it was unecessary. I have Martin Logan Ascents for fronts and draw roughly 200w per channel for power. The MHT's 140w at 4ohms is suprisingly enough to handle the Logans.
will Mc. mht200 drive my b&w 703 & htm7 with punch
i have a integra dtr 9.1 but have the opportunity to by a Mcintosh mht200 but I'm not sure if the difference in watts per channel from 130 to 100 will give me punch i want or should i just buy a rotel amp at 200 watts per channel and pair it with my integra which one will give me the best& most (quality sound)I'm not looking for loud but quality i can get the Mcintosh for 2500 or the rotel for 2000 help not a stereo freak (i mean that in a good way) I have 3 days nov 19-2008 thanks