McIntosh MC462

[muralimmreddy]

 

[Fiftyfifty]

Hi @muralimmreddy , would love to hear listening impressions* of your setup with the MC462 and La Scala combination. I'm also curious to understand how a very sensitive speaker combines with such a powerful amplifier.

*I may have missed reading it if you've done this already

Cheers!

 

[muralimmreddy]

would love to hear listening impressions* of your setup with the MC462 and La Scala combination. I'm also curious to understand how a very sensitive speaker combines with such a powerful amplifier.

I will share detailed ownership experience of la scala at some point. I am still understanding the speaker character with amplifiers, and sources at hand. From what i could understand from Klipsch forums these heritage speakers need some quality amplification. Mcintosh amplifiers are popular pairing. It was cautious decision (though was not very sure how it will pair) to buy la scala. It may look silly to pair 450w amp with 100+Db efficient speakers. But Unfortunately quad-balanced amplification, excellent dynamic headroom, extreme low distortion etc starts from mc462 and above in seperates. Its not about the power certainly. Not sure if its their autoformers or low distortion amplification its pairing very well with Klipsches.

On a side note. https://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/manufacture/0703/ this philosophy of SET amplifiers and high efficiency speakers as holy grail was motivation. I am starting to believe there is alway many way to achieve same goals

I do have a Decware se84zs a 2.3w purist power amp with minimal signal path to compare, Decware is another popular pairing with la scala. Decware is known to be transparent and not so tubey. At this point i am liking C22 + MC462 combo.

 

[Fiftyfifty]

Would be interesting to compare the La Scala sound with the 462 vs. the 84zs

 

[muralimmreddy]

Would be interesting to compare the La Scala sound with the 462 vs. the 84zs

Sure. Another debunking in making for me (of long held personal opinion) was R2R NOS dac (minimalist no filters, oversampling) + SET amplifiers with no feed back +super high efficiency (horns) speakers was the only way to achieve eerie realism, immediacy etc.

I am actually preferring chord hugo TT2 dac (heavy processing with FPGA), long-path of beefy amps