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Review NaN of
, from france Summary:
after reading one of the comments on the smaller 6400, i decided to listen to the mcintosh my dealer had in his exposition room. I tried it on JBL tik6. My only comment to the seller: why didn't you make me listening to this amp before?? (he always tries selling his valve amps).
This amp is just very good. so good i took it home, compared it with some others (marantz pm 16 and pm 14 and brinkman) and decided to keep it. It was just far the best, and it has a very good phono (the 6800 i mean) and i think that tone control is absolutely necessary if you want to play your old led zeppelin stuff and so on.
The controlled bass is marvelous, the music is just nice and "full" sounding. sound can be influenced by changing the output from 4 to 8 ohm (my tannoy are rated 6 ohm, are nicest sounding when connected to the 4 ohm outlet)
It was also the only amp that digested the tannoy where the others put themselves in "security mode" : when the marantz stopped playing , i thought there shoud be a short-circuit, measured my cables, and found a fault in one of my speakers
that measured 0,5 ohm resistand with a multimeter...
That speaker is in repair now, but it did not bother the mcinthosh at all...
Waiting for my system to be complete, i connected my old speakers of Tandberg. Surprise! they never sounded so well!
I think many other amps would do fine in my room, but i feel that i won't feel the need to change my mcintosh in the next 15 years or so.
It was just the nices buy i did in a long time. If it is in your budged, i don't think one should hesitate: just go for it. Strengths:
I bought in fact a 6800 (=6850 with phono) and my old vinyls sound marvelous, i did not find anything negative yet Weaknesses:
are there? yes, the screws to connect the speakers are a bit old-fashioned. Similar Products Used:
tannoy d700, cambridge dac3 + transport, B&O1902 recordplayer (an old one!)
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