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I'd love to have this setup, right next to the '72 Pantera or slightly newer Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer I could only dream about owning someday. Pushing a pair of Klipsch speakers (you know, the ones you need to move into a larger house to make work right!) I'm sure it would sound world class and make most married guys single as fast as you can say "honey, you aren't putting that stuff in MY living room, are you?"
Those of us on a real world budget from the divorce settlement a decade or more ago and child support payments since will have to suffer along with our pre-1980 Marantz receivers. I picked up a pair over the years, one in the living room and one in the shop, (what you do with spare bedooms or garages when you make that decision yourself) and each powers a pair of thoughtfully designed homebrew speakers (with top drawer drivers) with the kind of full, "no IC chip to adulterate the signal" authority that the Mcintosh probably musters on a bad day.

I said it eleven years ago, it's still true today- "it's about the music, stupid!" not about falling on your knees for brand loyalty for the system that reproduces it- and from what I have heard about the good folks that used to and still do work for McIntosh, I'm sure they'd agree. (see Roger-Russell.com, one of their key engineers in their history who humbly shares his technical knowledge and personal history at Mcintosh in a vast website, you won't regret the time spent!) I don't know Roger personally but thank him nonetheless for some entertaining reading.