Topic: anyone using vintage mcintosh pres/powers/receivers ?

[junkbondking]

my old system was a vintage aiwa tube 250 wpc beast, witha pair of vintage boston acoustic speakers.  had to sell it when we left cali.  im now in the process of putting together a new old school system.

id like to keep the pre/power combo around 500-700, and then drop a little more on speakers.  any advice is appreciated with +T's.

and fwiw, i have somewhat of a connection here in denver for vintage gear, but i don't know jack shit about electronics, and trust the folks here 100x's more than my hook up guy's friend.

[jpschust]

chris, how many ohms for that power rating? ive got an amp to suggest but if its at 8ohms it aint gonna cut it

[junkbondking]

the old macs could be run at 4, 6 or 8 ohms.  i'd rather get the amp firstand build the speakers around it.

[jpschust]

the amp im using is significantly less powerful than 250wpc, but it is just an amazing class a amp that works so well with classic gear.  I'm using the Belles 150a.  125wpc at 8ohms, 250 at 4ohms.  I'm convinced its the best amp for under a grand.  Get one of those and then get one of the amc tube pre's and replace the tubes- that will keep you in the general area of 700 bucks and create a nice mix of solid state and tube.

[KC5]

i have a sansui g7500 receiver.  huge heavy sucker.  rated at 150 wpc.  speakers are klipsch heresy's--older ones--not the II version.  from the meters on the receiver it seems at 1watt the speakers are loud and sounding great.  reciever ran me $300, and speakers were $700 shipped.  i also have a marantz cassette deck and marantz turntable--model numbers elude me.  

eventually, i plan to buy vintage mac stuff.  i've always liked the sound of tubes with the klipsch speakers--cornwalls if you can find them.

 

[mmmatt]

Have you checked out the old crown stuff?  A friend of mine has an old crown amp and semi-old adcom pre that sounds sweet.  His speakers are home built and not sure of the drivers.  His system is VERY acurate.  My system is a nakamichi receiver and a pair of polks.  It's so forgiving even my recordings sound good!!!  I take all my stuff over to my buddies before I release it.

Matt

[THE NIZ BIAAAAACH!]

I live up in breck. I run a vintage mac 7200 250w a side and B&W 604's, if ya wanna come up and listen let me know, bring your favorite stuff.  We gotta get Tim up here too.