New York's high-end audio company McIntosh has announced its first hybrid integrated amplifier, the MA252. The all analog amp's retro looks are a design nod to the company's iconic MC275 Vacuum Tube ...

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The McIntosh C2700 preamplifier is fitted with the new DA2 digital module and will, no doubt, be upgradeable to the DA3 in a few years. Lately, I’ve been thinking about how the audio industry has ...

At $8,000, the McIntosh MSA5500 streaming integrated amplifier isn’t for everybody, but it’s hard not to be impressed with its styling and audio technology. On the streaming side, the MSA550 supports ...

Though most of the amps in McIntosh’s current catalog rely on solid-state transistors, the company has been producing vacuum-tube amplifiers since its early days, including the famed MC275 stereo ...

For almost 70 years, New York's McIntosh Labs has been the cause of heart flutters among music lovers – both for the excellent quality of the company's hi-fi separates and for the prices they command.

McIntosh’s amps and preamps are adored by audiophiles, with their signature knobs, glowing blue meters and overall retro-futurist appeal (not to mention superb sound). The 70-year-old audio company ...

McIntosh Labs has just produced its most powerful amplifier to date. Dubbed the MA12000, the hybrid integrated amplifier offers 350 watts per channel and harnesses the best of both worlds thanks to ...

This new collaboration is a case in point. The McIntosh MA8950 x Virgil Abloh Integrated Amplifier was created especially for the new exhibition, ‘Virgil Abloh: The Codes’, at the Grand Palais in ...

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Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...