SS Part 4B: Latest Transformation - The Big Macs

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Postby jadis » Wed May 21, 2008 9:27 am

This is not your ordinary budget Mac meal with fries and drinks. :lol: It's not even a Big Breakfast by any standards. This is the Grand Ol' McIntosh, the name that has been legendary to the folks who played around with 'audio' in the 60s or maybe even the 50s.

Uncle's system has not only morphed from one beast of a system to another, I think it has trans-mutated. :lol: :lol:
From the Gibraltar like Eggleston Ivy/ML Towers/Halcro to the flagship Wilson X2/Burmester and now, into the latest transformation and even a transfiguration of a system that I have personally come to witness - a 12-piece package of the top-of-the-line McIntosh Audio System. :shock:

Let's start from the very beginning...a very good place to start... :lol:

The XRT2K Loudspeaker System:

Left channel:

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Right channel: ( Yes folks, mercifully, these things STILL have the left and right channels... :lol: )

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If you're wondering what those bubble-like things in front of the woofer towers are doing, no, they are not part of the grills, they are the tweeters and the midrange drivers. The smaller round things in the middle are the tweeters - 40 pcs. in all, PER CHANNEL. :lol: The midrange drivers, I had to block out all music from my seat just to visually count them, 64 pcs.ONLY, on two lines flanking the tweeters, per channel, but of course. :shock:

The 3-Headed Monster (Amps):

Left Channel:

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Right Channel:

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Power Supply (2 blocks per channel):

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Power Meter Level Indicatior (in case it cranks up to 2k watts - I say, be my guest): :shock:

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Side View of Speakers:

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FULL FRONTAL:

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Front End:

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CD Transport and DAC:

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Pre_amp:

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The Glowing Green color of the Tubes (like a Celtic Green) :lol:

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Back side of Speakers:

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Back side of amp that has 9 pairs of binding posts to the speakers:

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The Top Line Transparent 'Opus' Speaker Cables:

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Another angle of the room:

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A novelty of a CD:

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At first, what looked like a mooncake box turns out to be a CD from Tibet, recorded on XRCD2 format with incredible sonics staight from the mountains of the 'Roof of the World'.
Good thing they recorded this prior to the protest riots there. :lol:

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Postby Jon Agner » Wed May 21, 2008 10:04 am

Jadis,

Wow :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: Lucky there are no drool emoticons here :D :D :D :D

Coming off from the Wilson X2, how does the XRT2K sound? :roll: :D
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Postby diesel » Wed May 21, 2008 10:21 am

mama miya :shock: . top top top high high end system....congrats....[size=7][/size]galit sa pera..... :D :D
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Postby rafael montalvo » Wed May 21, 2008 10:42 am

All I can say is WOW, Mac all the way.
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Postby JackD201 » Wed May 21, 2008 11:12 am

Uncle needs vibration isolation for all that :shock:
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Postby Mamimili » Wed May 21, 2008 11:21 am

Just incredible 8) WOW does not seem good enough.
(How many chiropractors or massage girls were used after putting all in place?).
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Postby jadis » Wed May 21, 2008 12:28 pm

Mamimili wrote:Just incredible 8) WOW does not seem good enough.
(How many chiropractors or massage girls were used after putting all in place?).


Mamimili,

I really wouldn't know but how I wish I was present when the massage girls were there. The couches, by the way, are individual spacious leather chairs that would make the 'lazy boy' chairs look 'masikip'. :lol: I almost fell asleep last night as the session went till about 1am this morning. And each chair have 'cup holders' ala theatre seats, and all I would have wanted was a cup of coffee in that place hole. :lol:
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Postby jadis » Wed May 21, 2008 12:30 pm

JackD201 wrote:Uncle needs vibration isolation for all that :shock:


Jack, I think Critical Mass Inc. would have to expand their factory and chop more wood to suit the needs of the Big Macs here. :lol:
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Postby jadis » Wed May 21, 2008 12:31 pm

Jon Agner wrote:Jadis,

Wow :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: Lucky there are no drool emoticons here :D :D :D :D

Coming off from the Wilson X2, how does the XRT2K sound? :roll: :D


Jon,

Let me try to think and I will get back to you here. I'm stll a bit dazed from all that mac.... :lol:
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Postby bass_nut » Wed May 21, 2008 12:57 pm

those big macs are yummy !!! the amps :wink: :D
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Postby Superman » Wed May 21, 2008 1:07 pm

WOW! :shock: :shock: :shock: HANEP! :shock: :shock: :shock:
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Postby tenderobject » Wed May 21, 2008 1:15 pm

ser makikisabat lang po. anong audiorack ang gamet po sa setup?
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Postby audiostar » Wed May 21, 2008 1:17 pm

Looks like star trek gears :)
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Postby mullard88 » Wed May 21, 2008 1:38 pm

Hi Jadis,

No wonder you were not home last night. This HUGE room suddenly looks crowded with all those equipment. Aside from the stereo equipment, I am excited by your description of the new listening chairs. This room may be the "Singapore Airline's suite class" of listening rooms.
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Postby jadis » Wed May 21, 2008 2:19 pm

tenderobject wrote:ser makikisabat lang po. anong audiorack ang gamet po sa setup?


tenderobject,

hindi ko sure, but i think they were just sourced locally, i have seen them in some audio stores here.
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Postby jadis » Wed May 21, 2008 2:26 pm

mullard88 wrote:Hi Jadis,

No wonder you were not home last night. This HUGE room suddenly looks crowded with all those equipment. Aside from the stereo equipment, I am excited by your description of the new listening chairs. This room may be the "Singapore Airline's suite class" of listening rooms.


yes, mullard88, the seats are just like those. and i actually saw blankets somewhere in the room. a lot of listeners last night could not bear the 'freezing' temperature in the room. i heard the aircon system is something like 10 tons. people were going back to their cars to pick up their jackets. i knew cuz i was wearing one already. :lol: on the 'glimpse of tibet' CD, it lulled me to semi-sleep, then someone put on a telarc 'carmina burana' and that woke me in no time, thinking i was teleported into a theatre showing THE OMEN! :lol:
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Postby doasmarx » Wed May 21, 2008 2:28 pm

"once you go mc you'll never go back" let's wait another year if this cliche is true :D btw WWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW suddenly i remember the TIME Magazine article about a Mc addict in the US some 3 months back.and i hope the mc fanatics at audiokarma will see this grand setup
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Postby keith » Wed May 21, 2008 2:47 pm

Pardon me while I do an MSM ....


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Postby Le_Stat » Wed May 21, 2008 4:04 pm

imagining the cost of this, i would just go back to my Ipod + Headphone amp +Headphones.
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Postby Mamimili » Wed May 21, 2008 4:21 pm

This is what happens when you do not spin BP, all that extra cash goes on model cars and "other stuff" :lol:
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