The Famous McIntosh Meter Evolves !?!

[HiFiGuy528]

It actually looks better in person, but I'm still not sold.

[ehoove]

Not my choice. Why would a company go away from their defining appearance signature?
Regards,
Jim

[bradleyc]

Originally Posted by ehoove

Not my choice. Why would a company go away from their defining appearance signature?
Regards,
Jim

They go away for money... but it's not easy on the pocketbook or the eyes

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[Maks]

McIntosh or other products, I've always felt certain aspects of technology should stay analog. Level meters are one of these. I still rue the day that brightness and contrast meters on monitors went from being front mounted knobs to options buried in a menu, but I digress

[MikeSp]

Ugly -- while Mc tried to (more or less -- mostly less ) stay with the meter theme of the classic analog meters, this design does NOT. I remember an old Pioneer or Panasonic receiver from decades ago that had vertical colored bars to indicate power for each channel -- IMHO, it would have been better for Mc to have totally deviated from trying to transition the classic analog look to a less expensive line and they should have instead, totally changed the design using horizontal or vertical colored LCD bars, one for each channel (sorry, that is the best I can do in a description without being wordy), OR even used meters like are found on the top of the line Denon amplifier. YMMV

Mike

[jdandy]

About 28 years ago I bought a Hafler power amplifier and an Adcom preamp to drive my JBL 4312A studio monitors. The amplifier had no meter, so I bought an outboard two channel LED power meter that was rated for the 100 watts per channel amplifier. The LED meter had two rows of 12 LEDs, nine green, two amber and one red LED in each row, with the left channel row above the right channel row. I wired the meter to the Hafler outputs, powered the system up, and cranked the volume. The meters were flashing away, supposedly telling me the peak power as printed above and below the rows of LED's. Well, my interest in that LED meter lasted about a week. What a distraction that thing was, constantly flashing, irritating me. I disconnected it, and believe it or not I still have the damn thing around here somewhere in a box after all these years. I keep thinking I may use for something one of these days, but I doubt it. LED meters are an eye sore, in my opinion.

[mweston]

My suggestion for an all electronic McIntosh meter is to use a Retina display simulating analog meter movements. Its how you execute it. If you do it the way I suggest, it will look like the old meters, but be solid state and no moving parts. The flashing LED segments look cheap.

[LordoftheRingsEE]

---...The old needle, with the analog 'spring' at the bottom. ...Just the way things are right now.

[LordoftheRingsEE]

Originally Posted by MikeSp

....., OR even used meters like are found on the top of the line Denon amplifier. YMMV

Mike

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[Doug Lax]

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