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| Mcintosh MC352 / 2102 Not to spoil anybody's enthusiasm for tubed preamps, but when I compared the 2200 to the C200, I found the C200 to be the better preamp: as natural as the C2200, but more structured with large symphonic music, more slam and better bass definition ... | |
| Too Bright Big Blue Meters : Re: McIntosh MA6900 I played around with power cables a lot during the last year, for my McIntosh's: Shunyata's Black Mamba, the Australian Eichmann Xpress-power cable, an LAT-International cable, and PS Audio's Statement power cable. The PS Audio beat all others; yo... | |
| Best speakers for Mcintosh MA 6500 Take a look at Shahinian speakers, especially the Obelisk (www.shahinianacoustics.com). I started with these speakers with my MA 6500, after listening to the B&Ws, Dynaudios, among other speakers, and later upgraded to a McIntosh-combo and oth... | |
| pre-amp that's balanced with remote volume control McIntosh preamps C45, 46, C200 are balanced, and have remote, too | |
| Shunyata black mamba power cords I do own the Black Mamba and agree it is a very good cable. It was bettered, however, by the new , cheaper PS Audio XStream Statement I bought one month ago | |
| What about ESL and Omnidirectional? Aside from the MBL, the driver of the omnidirectional speakers of German Physiks is omnidirectional www.germanphysiks.com. Don't know whether they sell it independently from the speakers. | |
| Lost in Speaker Cable Land - $350 Budget I have the SS-1000 and give you one advice: Go for it. I used it to replace already good cables from German manufacturer HMS (model In Concerto, 800 dollars). Since then, I compared the LAT to much more expensive Transparant cables, Nordost, Strai... | |
| Audio cables for older McIntosh equipment? Brian,I started to look out for cables for my McIntosh's (C200 preamp, now MC402 power amp)last year. I took the advice of ljgj to try LAT International - and I am glad I did so. I finally recabled my whole system with LAT: their IC-20 digital cab... | |
| Recommendations for Balanced Interconnect... Take a look at LAT International's IC-200. I run it between my Chord DAC-64 and my McIntosh C200 preamp and between the preamp and the McIntosh MC402 power amp. Check the reviews on audioreview.com - I support the most enthusiastic. Burn-in takes ... | |
| Operas... Any fans? If you start out with opera, get yourself the Grammophone Classical Good CD Guide 2003 (ISBN 0-860-24902-6) for 28 dollars. It is an 1400-page-strong encyclopedia of classical CDs, with excellent reviews, comparisons and a lot of info about qualit... | |
| Acoustic Zen Speaker Cables I do have a McIntosh C200 preamp, MC402 power amp and Shahinian Diapason speakers, not an easy load to drive. Fellow Audiogon member ljgj recommended that I tried still little-known LAT International's SS-1000 speaker cable, which I did. It's an a... | |
| Anyone know who is making Integra Reseach gear? Integra Research is a 100 per cent daughter of Onkyo, which was founded to market high end-designs of Onkyo - and that includes R&D. They have a good website, too. | |
| Frank Sinatra at The Sands-Live........ A Sinatra CD that was issued in 2002 and is worth dying for is "The Rat Pack Live at the Sands", Sinatra together with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis jr. Capitol 7 2435 36615-2 | |
| Speaker suggestions to go with MAC gear please Michaela,your Vienna Acoustics speakers are, in fact, a very good match with the McIntosh-combo - I listened to it when buying the McIntosh combo I have. Go and listen to the speakers you were advised to listen to - but be sure you do not buy sth ... | |
| Recommendations: Mozart's Don Giovanni? The classic version Gaudio_eek is talking about shoulb be out of EMI's "Great Recordings of the Century"-series. Another excellent one is John Eliot Gardiner's 1995 live recording with Deutsche Grammophon 445 870-2 |