How Might the New McIntosh MTI100 Integrated Turntable Fill Your Audio Needs?

The brand new McIntosh MTI100 is a very nice piece in many ways.  Be sure to see the photo gallery below.

Woody, our McIntosh Rep brought the Mac piece in today, and as usual McIntosh fulfilled the eye candy test, with the preamplifer tubes on the deck.

If you are definitely a Vinyl guy or woman and your electronics are somewhat antiquated then this piece might just be for you. An integrated Amplifier/DAC/Turntable with a number of input choices.

The source we enjoyed today was a digital Bluesound Node 2i ($499), the speakers were the Martin Logan Motion 60XT Floorstander speakers ($2995/pr) with the folded motion tweeters.  The MTI100 ($6495) with a 50 Wpc amplifier filled the space very nicely in our “Great Room” reference room.  

My brief encounter with the new piece and above mentioned gear was one of warmth, maybe some extended bass, but not muddy. (The 60XT’s are kind of warm anyhow and with 2 each 8 inch Woofer drivers you won’t feel cheated on the low end.)  Overall, the delivery from the Mac was warm.  The mid-range perhaps had emphasis on the lower mids, but not excessive.  Woody cranked it up close to the top, and it was not lacking power in that room.  It was a very brief test, but was not disappointing. 

I see posts on the Audiophile forums about people wanting to get started in Vinyl, and at what level $dollarwise makes sense, and for a home office or silver platter college dorm, add the speakers and streaming source (if you desire both analog and streaming), based on McIntosh history, you should be well pleased.  I mention the latter, because we did not get a chance to hear the platter, as the setup time for tuning in the turntable was not available, so we just listened to the DAC and the Amplifier.

This is not available on our showroom floor.  But will certainly be available from our McIntosh line. However, I believe all three of us were quite impressed with the Sound, the Appearance and the convenience of the MTI100 inputs which included digital, optical and analog.

McIntosh appears to have delivered a very nice piece once again.

Thank You.