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| Bose buys McIntosh Bose is certainly innovative outside the small audiophile space. Their automotive system brand is well-placed in the mass market, which isn't a bad place to be. They have made a significant bid in the consumer home audio market against Sonos. Thei... | |
| Bose buys McIntosh The blue meters are distinctive, but only mean anything to a small number of audiophile owners. Still, they set McIntosh apart and probably should be left alone, or at least kept where a Vu meter is expected and appropriate. Signature design featu... | |
| Bose buys McIntosh I wouldn’t worry about McIntosh. Bose might trim off the waste. McIntosh’s main strengths are in electronics although they make every kind of component. Are their turntables competitive against the other high-end TT makers? They "make" phono cartr... | |
| Low Volume Speakers to pair with Gato 150 ELAC UniFi UBR 62, Martin Logan Motion XT B100, Omega Speaker Systems Compact Alnico Monitor. | |
| Bose buys McIntosh This is hardly bad news. A storied up-market home audio brand, made still in the USA, is bought from its PE owners by a well-known U.S. broad market audio company already well-established in the personal audio space, professional coms, in home aud... | |
| Adding tubes to integrated setup There are hybrid integrated options, most using tube preamp designs and solid state amplification. Vincent, Margules and others do this. Other options are separate tube preamps and solid state amps. Still a third are preamps with selectable tube o... | |
| Help me find my ideal Stereo Integrated Amp If you were willing to have an outboard streamer, the AR i/50 has everything else you want. | |
| Recommend me a tube integrated amplifier gbmcleod: The AR i/50 is not a hybrid tube integrated. The audio signal path is all tube, push-pull design. 50W. The solid state elements are the panel controls and the Lexie tube displays. It has a headphone amp that may be solid state and optio... | |
| My wife weighed in…she wants piano white tower/bookshelf If standmounts are also for consideration, Dutch&Dutch 8c are available in white. No subs needed. Full suite: streamer, DAC, DSP, subs, active, of course. Depending on your taste in cabinet design, the Genelec 8351s also come in white. 3-way a... | |
| Help me find my ideal Stereo Integrated Amp NAD M33, as mentioned. Class D with Eigentakt Purifi design. McIntosh MA8950. You will need a streamer.Class AB. | |
| My wife weighed in…she wants piano white tower/bookshelf Linn Series 5 active towers Bang & Olufsen Beolab 28 active towers KEF LS60 Wireless active towers (with REL T9x subs, in white) | |
| Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget You might consider something like Omega Super Alnico Monitors, which are full-range, mated with a REL subwoofer. The combination will not have excessive upper range dissonance and will have a very natural sound. They are also efficient, with sens... | |
| Ken Fritz's $1M Dream System update The auction prices don't tell us much except what equipment brings in a short sale window with unknowns regarding condition and costs of removal and transport. Whatever the system might have sounded like in the space where it was designed to sit c... | |
| Ken Fritz's $1M Dream System update The story is well over a year old, longer since Ken's death, the recorded interviews, several years. He built what he thought would sound best within a generous budget for any home system. He appeared to have a large vinyl collection, and his play... | |
| Solid State Preamp to replace tube unit Since you are already in the rarefied heights of CJ, I would suggest McIntosh C55 as a starting point. It seems to have everything you want. Less expensive, but not budget-level, would be Pro-Ject Pre-Box RS2, which is balanced I/O, has a dual ch... |