For the record, I'm not a Mc owner nor am I dissing them. Just observing. 
If you need more evidence that "Times, they are a changin' " here you go.
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Where do the tubes go?
Where's the dang Meter app?
The cans are discontinued, with used examples going for well over a grand.
collectors' items.
I wonder who made the McIntosh headphones? I doubt that they did, though I have nothing to base this on except thinking a company would OEM them somewhere else rather than learn decades of others' expertise (or maybe they hired/poached designers from other headphone makers?).
I'm guessin' that Dr. Dre was involved...
Well, McIntosh is for an older audience so maybe they're "Pleats. By Dr Dre."
Where do the tubes go?
Typically, on Mc gear, the tubes go over the LEDs. I'm not even seeing LEDs.
They were either made by Beyerdynamic, or assembled by McIntosh from Beyerdynamic parts such as the Tesla drivers, which are patented by Beyer. These were said to be very competitive with other top model headphones, but just a bit too pricey at $2,000 for any hope of real traction in the market.
They probably sold them to the dyed-in-the wool McIntosh brand champions through their dealer channel, and just about nobody else, though certain catalogers such as Crutchfield, and MusicDirect did carry these.
The price was just too much. I'm sure they were decent headphones. It's interesting that they were discontinued before this headphone amp was released (though I know they've had rather larger component headphone amps out). I had looked it up, Apple took about a year to certify it/approve its release for use with their phones.
The funny thing about that is, if they'd have stickered 'em at $1000, they'd have probably been unable to keep 'em in stock. Thousand dollar headphones seem to be as easy to sell as... well... seventy-five thousand dollar pickup trucks. In the US, of course (in the latter case -- maybe the former case, too).
Found another one today, down at the local jar store.
I think I'd like to see a record that came with a free beer.
Right.
I've never been a big Mac fan ('cept their tuners -- some nice tuners, and the MC-225 and a couple of the early preamps), but, for me, Mac jumped the shark with this abomination*.
Slowly but surely, McIntosh has (from my perspective!) become to hifi what this vehicle** is to automobilia.
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* Which is/was Clearaudio OEM, anyway, as best I can tell.
** shout out to any of all y'all who recognize the car and know who was its famous owner.
I've never been a big Mac fan ('cept their tuners -- some nice tuners, and the MC-225 and a couple of the early preamps), but, for me, Mac jumped the shark with this abomination*.
Slowly but surely, McIntosh has (from my perspective!) become to hifi what this vehicle** is to automobilia.
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* Which is/was Clearaudio OEM, anyway, as best I can tell.
** shout out to any of all y'all who recognize the car and know who was its famous owner.
I like the horns more:
The Texas style Eldorado* was in fact my other choice, but I knew I could find the Eldorado I posted
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* Not to be confused with the classic Texas Cadillac.
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* Not to be confused with the classic Texas Cadillac.
