Since when has McIntosh been considered Hi-End?

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I was a late adopter of CDs. I did not start collecting them until the late 1980s. I had a large vinyl collection and really didn’t like CDs at the start. My first CD player was bought as an alternative to my cassettes (home made from vinyl on three head decks), I adopted SACD very soon after it was introduced. I like SACDs and I wish the market had paid them more respect.

All of this stuff “works.” If you listen to music rather than sound, it’s a lot harder to get excited about format differences. But if you do listen to sound, it can become more interesting.

When I first started to put together my digital system I wasn't sure if I could make it work.
That was in 2006. I learned then that tubes were my friend for all things digital as digital was too bright and too forward, at least to me.

Analog sounds better to me using solid state.

 

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Analog LP requires more power for playback than Digital, so underpowered tooby amps will not like ...