Comments on: McIntosh MA-7000 Integrated Amp ($8,000) Review on SonicFlare http://www.dailyaudiophile.com/mcintosh-ma-7000-integrated-amp-review-sonicflare/ Today's Best Hi-Fi Reviews and Commentary Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: LQMH http://www.dailyaudiophile.com/mcintosh-ma-7000-integrated-amp-review-sonicflare/comment-page-1/#comment-2102 LQMH Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:46:35 +0000 http://www.dailyaudiophile.com/?p=2164#comment-2102 MA 7000, when turn volumn to min, the sound of music remain heard on speakers connecting to. Why? MA 7000, when turn volumn to min, the sound of music remain heard on speakers connecting to.
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]]> By: Sidonie http://www.dailyaudiophile.com/mcintosh-ma-7000-integrated-amp-review-sonicflare/comment-page-1/#comment-1856 Sidonie Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:47:52 +0000 http://www.dailyaudiophile.com/?p=2164#comment-1856 I highly recommend the replacement of the MA-7000 jumpers between pre- and main amp. Personally, I used a Kimber KS1036 and the result is so overwhelmingly good that I ask myself: Why does McIntosh do not take advantage from our response. They should ship the MA-7000 with Kimber KS1036 on a regular basis. The ordinary sound bridge lowers McIntosh's potential. Check it out! Sidonie I highly recommend the replacement of the MA-7000 jumpers between pre- and main amp. Personally, I used a Kimber KS1036 and the result is so overwhelmingly good that I ask myself: Why does McIntosh do not take advantage from our response. They should ship the MA-7000 with Kimber KS1036 on a regular basis. The ordinary sound bridge lowers McIntosh’s potential.
Check it out!

Sidonie

]]> By: Jackson http://www.dailyaudiophile.com/mcintosh-ma-7000-integrated-amp-review-sonicflare/comment-page-1/#comment-1845 Jackson Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:24:19 +0000 http://www.dailyaudiophile.com/?p=2164#comment-1845 Santosh Actually I found the exactly issue that the MA7000 JUMPER sounds... very harsh and lack of bass in most music,, and so I changed it to just a regular monster rca cable and the mid range and bass just came alive! so I am going to try to the MIT shotgun 3.3 later this week and I will let you know how it works, and I believe the Cardas is great as well! Jackson Santosh

Actually I found the exactly issue that the MA7000 JUMPER sounds… very harsh and lack of bass in most music,, and so I changed it to just a regular monster rca cable and the mid range and bass just came alive! so I am going to try to the MIT shotgun 3.3 later this week and I will let you know how it works, and I believe the Cardas is great as well!

Jackson

]]> By: Santosh http://www.dailyaudiophile.com/mcintosh-ma-7000-integrated-amp-review-sonicflare/comment-page-1/#comment-1833 Santosh Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:19:18 +0000 http://www.dailyaudiophile.com/?p=2164#comment-1833 I have a comment about McIntosh Integrated amplifiers. A friend recently told me that the JUMPER which connects Pre to Power section of Mac Integrated amplifiers is of poor or say ordinary quality and this has an impact on the sound. So he advised me to use a good quality interconnect inplace of supplied Jumpers and see the improvement in sound. I tried 4 different interconnects on my MA-6600 and all of them sounded much better then the Jumper. Namely the ICs were Kimber Hero with Silver bullet plugs,Oyaide, Furutech, and Cardas Golden reference. All the IC's sounded better than Jumper but CARDAS Golden Reference was the best and much better then rest of IC's. I will therefore request members using various models of McIntosh integrated amplifier to try this and see if they can benefit from this small change of cables. May be we can get even more improvement from some other cable not tested by me I have a comment about McIntosh Integrated amplifiers. A friend recently told me that the JUMPER which connects Pre to Power section of Mac Integrated amplifiers is of poor or say ordinary quality and this has an impact on the sound. So he advised me to use a good quality interconnect inplace of supplied Jumpers and see the improvement in sound.
I tried 4 different interconnects on my MA-6600 and all of them sounded much better then the Jumper. Namely the ICs were Kimber Hero with Silver bullet plugs,Oyaide, Furutech, and Cardas Golden reference.
All the IC’s sounded better than Jumper but CARDAS Golden Reference was the best and much better then rest of IC’s.
I will therefore request members using various models of McIntosh integrated amplifier to try this and see if they can benefit from this small change of cables.
May be we can get even more improvement from some other cable not tested by me

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