29 Dec 2011
GeekBeat.TV – Review: $7500 Audio – McIntosh MXA60 Bookshelf Stereo System GB178
Author: admin | Filed under: Gadgets
We take an in-depth look at the McIntosh MXA60 – a very high-end audio system!
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Tags: $7500, Audio, Bookshelf, GB178, GeekBeat.TV, MCINTOSH, MXA60, Review, STEREO, system
it’s like Leica in camera world
That McIntosh MXA60 is cool and all but… will it blend?
what a joke; this is a cheezy infomercial from the get-go! i would have spent the 7,500 but watching this with the affected caveat and cheezy intro. makes me not have this in my drawing room.
what a joke; this is a cheezy infomercial from the get-go! i would have spent the 7,500 but watching this with the affected caveat and cheezy intro. makes me not have this in my drawing room.
Wow, the product was nice, but i was more impressed by the review. If I owned my own company, I would def. have you guys review it.
If this is not a paid ad for McIntosh, then it is a demo of the type of infomercial that Livid Lobster can make for your product.
Doesn’t matter what the amp’s THD rating is…the transducer (speaker) carries at least 1%
This guy is in love with McIntosh!
@johnpoz – I understand. There will always be those who want to own something artistic or exclusive. I have no beef with that. But amplifier design has plateaued. An engineer picks a chipset for a desired power rating and feature set, then builds a system around that. Everything else is design, ergonomics and artistic expression. Then it’s up to the consumer to decide the “cool” factor they’re willing to pay for. Thanks for the reply! :^)
@GhildedGharden I think you focused in on a single detail. Remember, this is a bookshelf system. It has the power and audio characteristics to compete with a full stack of high end components. Plus it looks and sounds fantastic, and it is hand made the old fashioned way by real craftsmen. Some of us might not shell out $7,500 for it. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth it.
I’m not here to talk anyone into, or out of, buying this system. But I wanted to give you a feel for the logic that would go into justifying the purchase of a luxury item like this system. People who have the means buy them for their performance, longevity, and because of how it makes the people around them feel.
However, the specs don’t tell the full story. A Subaru WRX STI will keep up with most of the Ferraris ever made, but no one cares. Because a Ferrari LOOKS different, SOUNDS different and makes you FEEL different.
@FranckyB As I mentioned in the video, the goal was not to tell you about the specs. The unit is small, it has a single CD player. It has a few inputs for other devices. It has a tuner. On the specs along you wouldn’t buy it, because there are cheap Japanese systems which will give you more features.
@FranckyB I think you missed the point. The guy said he wasn’t going to walk you through it’s specs. It’s a McIntosh, everyone and their mom knows how good it is. I’d rather someone explain to me why such a high price tag is worth it.
because its luxury XD
I’m sorry but this felt so much like a paid promo it’s ridiculous.
For a review show like geekbeat it didn’t mention anything really about the product, except praising it. Does it play MP3 or SACDs, does it have extra inputs? No information what so ever about the product was given. Yeah, the speaker grill weighs a pound… what else ?
This really left me with a bad taste.
@rockyrobins Like you wouldn’t believe! It changed my life!
looks ugly
John, this is a fantastic review. Please review more things
A lotta coin, but I bet it sounds REAL clean
Ohhhhh! Cool background!
In conclusion, that kind of performance was available circa 1978. So, throwing arounnd a number like .05% THD for 21st century amplifiers is not really impressive. Also, the idea that tubes are superior to solid state is just marketing hype; like people who claim vinyl is better than digital, or people who claim they can hear the difference between .03% THD and .04% THD. Crikey, mate, Superman doesn’t have hearing that good! The McIntosh system may be a nice system, but $7500??? No way!!!
Even more, the Yamaha CR-series amplifiers were nearly impossible to destroy. I can’t count how many times I’ve repaired amps where the user was not careful about maintaining the polarity of the speaker wires. But a Yamaha CR-series amplifier didn’t care. If it detected cross wired speakers, it simply shut down that channel; no fuses or circuit breakers required. Correct the polarity, and the channel started working again. (Continued in next comment…)
Sorry, but this report seems like paid hype. I was the service mgr for a small chain of stereo stores in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Pioneer and Yamaha equipment of that era were warranteed to have >.05% THD, and >.001% IMD (intermodulation distortion). Yamaha CR-series amps in particular were fully linear; meaning if max output was rated 150 watts, then with the volume control turned up all the way, it was putting out 150 watts. (Continued in next comment…)
Men in Black? Yeah this product is awesome.