Would you like fries with that "Big Mac"
highfihoney said:
thank you for your kind words,we love how great all the mac gear performs.
Since 1959 I have been bathed in, surrounded by, saturated with, force fed, and rinsed off with music of all types, live as well as recorded, not to mention the writing of it, the playing of it, learning theory (like it or not) Performing with a band, (
parents made me play trumpet all through school). I have been a guitar player for 41 years, my father was concert violinist, my mother was awesome pianist, all 4 sisters play violin or piano.
When I was 18 I joined the Navy and was trained for years (while in military) on "The Physics of Sound", "Acoustic Engineering", "Underwater Sound Propogation and the Deep Sound Channel Axis", I basically was taught by the Navy all there is to know about sound in order to be able to design better equipment capable of tracking nuclear submarines or any vessel that could be considered a threat to our security (the USA). No joking we had an array or more commonly known to civilians as a row of microphones pointing in a certain direction and located in the "Deep Sound Channel Axis" which is an area in the ocean where sound waves literally become trapped and loose almost 0 energy due to differentials in the water pressure vs. water temperature so at lower frequencies they can travel for thousands of miles and still be detected. It was so sensitive that we could hear a "Minke" whale pass gas 5500 miles away. I used Minke whale as a reference because for some reason when a Minke whale expels air it has a signature
(signature is what we called the marks generated by the target on the graphing equipment connected to the array) that appeared to be a Russian Nuclear Submarine. My job was to use all the info they gave me to detect, track and notify the proper personel whenever a threat was even a remote possibility (there were many false alarms due to the complexity of our system as well as the fact that so many vessel had simalar signatures). Many times the strength and the order of the harmonics most visible were the determining factor. Also to design mounting structures, figure ways to isolate vibrations and reduce rotating mass frequency signatures, reduce resonance from pumps and motors and anything else that makes noise in order to make it impossible for others to detect our Submarines.
The point I am trying to make in this long history of my life is that I am serious about anything related to sound reproduction and have the knowledge (thanks to the Navy training) and 30 years of self motivated study of everything from Quantum Physics to very complex mathmatics just because I had a serious desire to understand at the most basic level (molecular) the science behind any subject that could help me be able to build a better sounding speaker. All that coupled with a burning desire to build (inherent in my basic gene structure I guess) things led to my unending search for the perfect audio system. Three and a half years ago my neck and back were damage in a car crash and were repaired with titanium plates and screws and since have been unemployed so I took what I had availabe to me (knowledge, speaker parts, empty bank account and a need to feed my two sons) and went full tilt boogie into trying to sell some nice speakers and create a customer base that will spread the word. If not for all the desire to know about speakers I woiuld have lost my house and probobly my family by now.
All that being said, I would like you to consider the following statement,
Your system to me is appears to be (if I had monius unlimitus, Greek for wealthy he, he) the one that I picked out for myself. And in case you missed thats one hell of a compliment. I have listened to speakers costing 40,000 and up on many occasions. Even they, all of them seem to miss a little something somewhere, but I love the purity of a Mac to Mac setup. And yours is one of the most attractive I've seen. I know people that use Krell with what I like to call the "Big Mac" speakers and its not the same. Its almost like McIntosh designed their amp to play their speakers better than it will play someone elses. I think it must have a sensor and if it senses mac to mac it adds something to the mix that makes it click.
Well I have said enough, but I had to write a severe compliment on a system that obviously cost a fortune and to keep it pure McIntosh is to me worth the 30 minutes it took to type this. I dont type very well since my neck injury. My guitar playing has gone way downhill as well. So I hope you enjoy your audio listening time as much as I value mine. One of the conditions of my marriage proposal, and I am serious, was that I had no limits on me in any way as far as how many hours or when I could just go to my listening room and enjoy the fruits of my labors. Allthough now my fruits look more like raisins than the grapes I envisioned before seeing your system.
This is my first post on this forum. I joined today, usually I am at the PE Tech forums doling out info of some sort. So I promise not to write a book every time.
Have a good day and enjoy your audio as often as possible. They say its like having a pet. It can relax you and create harmony lower your stress and actually give you a couple extra years of life.
Later, Jeff Hyder
