‘precision’ in its description of this deck - we’d add rock-solid. It laid open a classic rock mix with a combination of solidity to the bass elements and precision to the highs in a sound which was often too enjoyable to analyse; LPs came and went with very few review notes going...
somehow, they come to coexist in the same body: the strength, the toughness and the power of Arnold Schwarzenegger, with the finesse and beauty of Grace Kelly." -Francisco del Pozo(see also hisYouTube review)
but finding room for it wasn't as hard as I at first thought—that 22.5" depth includes the two hefty handles on the faceplate and the rear deck on which the speaker terminals are vertically arrayed, and the amp's four rubber feet are sensibly separated by only 12.5"...
Fig.9 McIntosh MC462 (2 ohm output), both channels driven, distortion (%)vs1kHz continuous output power into 2 ohms. Figs. 6–9 indicate that distortion is extremely low, lying below the noise floor at powers below 30W or so. I therefore plotted how the THD+N changed with frequency fro...
The design element that allows McIntosh to do this has been a technical cornerstone of all their solid-state amps: a single-winding transformer called an autotransformer—or, in the trade lingo arguably coined by McIntosh, an Autoformer. Beginning in 1967 with their first transistor amp, the ...