Daniel Walte
Active Member
Having owned some good yamaha preamps and power amps in the past they do sound good. kinda neutral as their natural sound they talk about line was. Having just purchased a McIntosh 1900 reciever near mint and recently serviced i will say that the tuner is superb and amplifier although rated at only 55 watts a channel makes my Bose 901 series 2 speakers sound much better and seem as powerful as the 901`s when i had the hooked up to my phase linear 400 amp and i was using the phase linear 2000 preamp. The mac gives them a breath the phase never could. And the mac i have the active equalizer for the bose hooked up in between preamp and power amp just i did for the phase linear setup. Thoroughly shocked the crap out of me that this mac reciever could achieve better sound than the phase linear did for the 901`s. and i bought the mac 1900 off a ak member for 150.00 and he also sold me a nice technics sl-1100a turntable kinda rare but also nice for 50.00.