It’s called an autoformer and I’m very much looking forward to doing my best to explain it and having someone pop up in the comments going ‘well, akshewrley….’Īn autoformer is a transformer with a single winding which means that portions of the same winding act as the primary and secondary rather than there being secondary windings for each. What the MA7200 has though that these models don’t have is a piece of engineering that the company has used for decades and that is instrumental to how many of their most notable designs work. This is admirable but what does it mean in 2020 in the context of Post AV and the existence of rivals that have might have weathervaned a bit but have done so in a way that nets them an Editor’s Choice award? Does the McIntosh recipe still work absolutely or is this an anachronism? It’s time to find out.įrom the front, the MA7200 could only be a McIntoshĪs noted, the MA7200 is not the most affordable integrated amplifier in the range there are both solid state and some new hybrid valve/solid state designs that can be purchased for less. In this analogy, McIntosh isn’t a signpost, it’s a granite marker. In the specific case of McIntosh, ‘signpost’ rather undersells the determination with which McIntosh does its own thing. Signposts by contrast, point in one direction regardless of what might be going on around them. The former were individuals (or in this case, companies) who altered their position to suit prevailing moods, turning this way and that to stay relevant. The late MP Tony Benn used to remark on the difference between weathervanes and signposts. So why this particular model? Aside from the practical reality that at any given time, not every member of the range is available as a review sample, the MA7200 is an example of many of McIntosh’s most distinctive design practises. Given that, as some of you will have already noted, it weighs in at nearly ten thousand pounds, it’s also a reminder that McIntosh exists in a fairly rarefied world. It is neither the most affordable such model that McIntosh makes, nor the most expensive, in their complex, almost overlapping range of products. The McIntosh MA7200 is a stereo integrated amplifier.
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