It’s about time

[miketuason]

This made me even more a proud owner.
https://www.soundandvision.com/conte...-cta-hall-fame

[Cohibaman]

Very cool, thanks for the link. Gotta love McIntosh!

[JWJW]

Originally Posted by Cohibaman

Very cool, thanks for the link. Gotta love McIntosh!

Agree. Great article.

[crwilli]

Good article. Nice to see both being recognized.

[For The Love of Music]

Good to see, you can’t take away their pioneering accomplishments!

[Msegal]

I did not know Gordon Gow was a fellow Canadian.

[RaceCarDriver]

October 2017 article

[pwrfulpete02]

very nice, I just picked up a pair of xr14's with the EQ; matches my mc2505 and feel I have part of the legacy too....p.s. those xr14's sound great!

[GaryProtein]

That was a great article.

[Charles]

I got to meet Dr. Gow on several occasions and we became friends. He used to visit Nicholson's Stereo in Nashville regularly and since I was a regular visitor, I made it a point to be there when he came by. I think he knew "Mr. Nick" fairly well. He was absolute class in every respect and very humble. He put you at ease and although the president of McIntosh, never called attention to that fact. At Nicholson's he was mainly into demonstrating his four piece speakers, the XRT22's which I listened to on several occasions. Also, the MCD7000 which I remember him saying "saved his company". I owned one. It was one of the first CD players that had a natural relaxed sound, even though it employed only one D/A converter. I believe the MCD7005 was the first to employ dual D/A converters (one per channel). I owned one of those also. I believe that if substituted into my current system I could hear a significant difference from what I have now. I hope that I could but I wouldn't bet my house on it. One of the reasons I like Mac digital front ends is that they have been making them for a very long time and they began with truly superb CD players. I don't know why the MCD7000 sounded so good but I was not the only one back then who thought so. Dr. Gow certainly did and so did everyone at Nicholson's.

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Charles
Amps: McIntosh 1.25KW’s (3)
Preamp and DAC: McIntosh D1100
Sources: McIntosh MCD1100 SACD player, MVP881 BR player, MVP851 DVD player, MR87 tuner, Marantz 510LV Laser Disc player, ASUS laptop USB (JRiver Media Center 23)
Speakers: Wilson Audio Specialties Alexx
Sub-woofer: Wilson Audio Specialties Thor’s Hammer (1) and Wilson Watch Controller
Cables main system: Audioquest Wel Signature speaker cables and IC’s; Dragon power cords (8)
Sub-woofer system: Audioquest Redwood speaker cable; Wolf IC and Hurricane power cords (2)
Power conditioners: Audioquest Niagara 7000 (1) and Niagara 5000 (2); (4) 20-amp lines