A full McIntosh audio system with Sonus Faber Aida Speakers
I saw this post on FB, I’m a novice but my dad has some Mcintosh and I know it’s pricey.
out of interest, what’s it worth?
A full McIntosh audio system with Sonus Faber Aida Speakers
I saw this post on FB, I’m a novice but my dad has some Mcintosh and I know it’s pricey.
out of interest, what’s it worth?
Sonus Fabers: £100,000
Mcintosh MC2KW monoblocks (pair): £110,000
(Top to bottom)
MT10 turntable: £15,500
MCD350-2: £7,000
C12000 (power supply underneath): £19,000
Bottom two are probably just for show and not actually plugged in as they’re not needed
Total being: £251,500 RRP
One of the bottom components appear to be McIntosh’s implementation of Lyngdorf’s excellent Room Perfect Room Correction and the other component is likely the McIntosh Power Conditioner and Isolation Transformer. About $6000 US each.
If I may add a bonus : your cables can easily cross the missing 50k to 300 if you follow the salesman point of view, or be about 500 EU all told from a reputable hardware store…
r/theydidthemath
Wow, to each their own of course. But i would rather spend on a great setup that costs even less than 25% of this setup, and splurge on acoustic treatments. Buying a lot of extremely expensive gear in an untreated room is useless (audio quality wise), but it works if its just to show that you have money and you are upper class.
If you have the money to write a blank check to a shop, they are happy to take your money.
And then you buy McIntosh ?? While you have so much choice. Like, D’Agostino, Nagra, dCS, Burmester…
I like McIntosh because they look cool
I bought an Anthem over a McIntosh and saved about $1k and got moving coil support for my Kiseki cart. I still think about that McIntosh unit though, they are so pretty.
That was probably the “smart” move but this hobby isn’t like that for me.
If everyone wanted to make the “smart” move, we’d see roads full of Prius (wow okay so I checked and the plural of Prius is Prii) and Camrys, but some of us like the “fun” cars so there’s Corvettes and Porches, etc.
That’s not saying the people with Prii can’t be fun, but they’re just doing a different thing than people with Porches lol. Both are great choices though!
Exactly what many of their buyers say.
I would buy a remote house with a dedicated room for that price and keep my current speakers.
With that money I would buy a beolab beast
Lmao quit hating
Acoustic treatments help correct errors in the space they don’t fix the quality of the system.
There’s a bunch of odd balls lately talking about room treatments like it’s the newest audio snake oil.
The vast majority or systems I’ve installed or worked on needed placement modification way more that “room treatments”
And yes I have no doubt you could get equal or better sound at less than 20% of this system
This is pure showing off
Acoustic treatments help correct errors in the space they don’t fix the quality of the system.
There’s a bunch of odd balls lately talking about room treatments like it’s the newest audio snake oil.
The vast majority or systems I’ve installed or worked on needed placement modification way more that “room treatments”
And yes I have no doubt you could get equal or better sound at less than 20% of this system
This is pure showing off
If you can afford this then by extension you can afford to pay someone to do acoustic treatment for you. If you can’t afford them both you probably can’t actually afford any of this.
Those are I think one maybe a tuner and the other a streamer? Or external phono stage??
I just lurk in here, trying to acquire knowledge by osmosis, though I’m still so firmly out of the loop on a lot of things. In these systems, I see power supplies. Is that like a transformer? Taking what comes out of the wall and increasing it to drive this crazy level of stuff? Please forgive this question being what I’m sure is beyond basic for the community. I’d like to learn, a listening room is a future dream of mine.
…with no room treatment.
I hate it when people buy systems the price of a house and don’t treat the room. It’s none of my business, of course, but it still runs me the wrong way
Can’t wait to listen to some old Car Seat Headrest demos on that badboy
Bout two fiddy
Why the votes down? The guy above said about two fiddy. as in two fiddy thousands.
Probably people who don’t understand Ebonics.
I prefer their term “jive”, the movie Airplane solidified that term, to me.
Saying “ebonics” in 2023 means you were probably already old in the 90’s