McIntosh MCD1100 SACD Disc Player Preview

Audiophiles, accumulate turn and take out your wallets.  The reward sound gurus from McIntosh have voiced the MCD1100 SACD Disc Player, that is engineered to broach lengthened functionality and limit low-pitched fealty from CD, CD-R, CD-RW, SCACD, Hybrid SACD, MP3, and WMA stereo song discs.  And, it doesn't need a well-defined preamplifier to broach warm, abounding and emotionally enchanting sound from today's many digital song sources.  The MCD1100 may be updated to any existing network or used as a standalone part with a set of high high quality headphones

This is what McIntosh President Charlie Randall had to say about the MCD1100: "In developing McIntosh source components, the designers and engineers have always strived to broach all the romantic calm in available music. For the initial time, you right away offer greatest McIntosh opening for not usually a condensed front library, but any other digital stereo source as well. In today’s digital song universe, the modernized digital decoding allows sources such as streaming music, song servers, Internet air wave and others, to be processed, controlled, and improved. Many convenient web-based audio sources have been compared to ‘fast food’ sound as against to the ‘fine dining’ earthy song media. Clever, modernized McIntosh engineering right away allows the most appropriate of both worlds; great sound and infinite web selection."

(Author's tangent: It's funny, so many companies are perplexing to put together song that has been nude of its original fealty when encoded for digital distribution, but every audiophile I verbalise with say these techniques are normally rubbish.  That whatever vegetable patch fixes are tacked onto these files can never entirely reinstate omitted data.  Esteemed AVRev readers, what do you think?  I suspect if any person could do it, McIntosh could, but we'll have to attend with the own ears before desiring this.)

Okay, back to the MCD1100… Cosmetically, any person will agree to this section as "quintessentially McIntosh."  There is a new 3D written potion front panel, soothing backlighting, and a gloss immaculate steel chassis. 

The MCD1100 is written to expostulate power amplifiers directly; its opening capabilities are similar to the excellent stereo preamps.  Like many of its kin products, the MCD1100 features McIntosh Control Functionality that allows it to run McIntosh power amplifiers and source components.

The modernized USB Audio digital submit allows convenient access to song stored or streamed from a P.C. whilst moreover determining renouned P.C. audio programs. Five extra digital inputs enable connection to the Digital Audio outputs of CD changers, air wave tuners, pro audio rigging or song stored on Windows or Mac PCs.  The USB digital submit accepts audio information rates up to 32 bit/ 192kHz.  Though, notwithstanding this connectivity, you have to wonder, because no WiFi for streaming P.C. or Internet-based content?  For updated convenience, when related to a user’s preferred streaming song program, users may manage and navigate from the handheld McIntosh remote.

Build quality?  You betcha.  The MCD1100 features an aluminum die throw ride bottom and front tray for limit fortitude during playback.  Advanced digital laser servo engine yields quieter and the most exact positioning of the identical tiwn laser visual pickup, and allows for optimal getting more information of the disc.

In conditions of decoding, 4 32 bit/192kHz, PCM/ DSD Digital Audio converters are used per duct in a Quad Balanced configuration.  Eight complete Digital to Analog converters in use results in the most appropriate probable audio performance. SACD front conversion from Digital to Analog moreover uses Pure DSD decoding.

Pick up an MCD1100 SACD Disc Player from your local, certified McIntosh play starting in November for a cold $10,000.