La prose Mc Instosh en version original est dans la suite de cette article. J'avoue être trés sensible à ces si beaux yeux bleus. Souvenir ému d'une paire de ESL 63 drivée par un Mc prise en flagrant délit de séduction musical dans un auditorium à Dijon. L'électronique donnait  de la matiére, de la fluidité que la mise en phase des ESL rendait à merveille.

Mcintosh owners have been known to develop cult-like devo­tion. Discriminating collec­tors are willing to pay many times the original price of some classic Mcintosh amps
The classic Mcintosh look, with the backlit, black glass front panel gives a timeless quality to the styling. Like the label on a fine wine, it doesn't change, and it tells you all you need to know about what's inside. The Mcintosh front panel, in fact, is an excellent example of the way the whole unit is made. Extraordinary mea­sures are taken, even with basic materials like glass, metal and paint. The face glass is cut using the most advanced computer controlled high pressure water jet glass cutting technology. As many as twelve layers of ink are screened on the back, one at a time, adding the colors, light fil­ters and labeling. It takes three full days to complete a Mcintosh front panel and if even a microscopic imperfection is discovered at any step of production, the panel is finest materials available, rejected. The chassis is treated to a five step, one hour finishing and painting process that puts an indelible high gloss on parts you'll never see.

Control — it's something we can all use a little more of. While many popular preamp designs omit control func­tions and signal processing to try and preserve sonic purity, Mcintosh control centers require no such sacrifice. All signal processing circuits are electrically neutral when in the flat or bypass modes, preserving signal integrity throughout the entire circuit path. Electromagnetic impervious to atmospheric contamination, or degradation due to wear, and absolutely silent in oper­ation — provides input selec­tion and signal routing.
See, there's this strange blue light, glowing behind the true power output wattmeters, telling the world at a glance that you know your stuff when it comes to sound. These meters indicate the true power that your Mcintosh amplifier delivers to the loud­speakers, regardless of speaker loads or impedance varia­tions. Driven by circuitry that constantly measures both voltage and current, these glowing blue icons are extremely accurate, responding to 95% of full scale with only one cycle of a 2,000 Hz tone burst.
Power Guard®, a patented Mcintosh circuit design, elimi­nates the possibility of harsh clipping distortion, without sonic side effects. Not a "soft clipping" circuit or a limiter, Power Guard® has no effect prior to the clipping point of the amplifier. A waveform comparison circuit continuous­ly monitors the output signal, and compares it to the input signal. Should distortion rear its ugly head in the output sig­nal, Power Guard® reduces the level of the input signal until distortion is below clipping, then restores the amplifier to full gain. Because the whole process only takes thousandths of a second, you won't hear the change. But Power Guard® is there, part of the magic of Mcintosh, protecting your ears and your speakers from the damage of distortion.