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?

  • Melancholic84@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      and you are upper class.

      And then you buy McIntosh ?? While you have so much choice. Like, D’Agostino, Nagra, dCS, Burmester…

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          1 year ago

          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.

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            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!

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      1 year ago

      I would buy a remote house with a dedicated room for that price and keep my current speakers.

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      1 year ago

      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

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      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

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      1 year ago

      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.