Lately released McIntosh McAire, is the first product for the iTunes environment made by such a famous audiophile firm organization. For audiophiles of a certain analogue and classic bending, it doesn't get much more perfect than McIntosh, a organization that's been making popularly well-regarded pipe built-in amps already designed in since 1949 and whose built-in amplifiers already designed in have operated everything from Woodstock to the Thankful Deceased.
Looking just like a boxy, classic McIntosh element (complete with trademark double blue-lit meters), the McAire is basically an all-in-one wi-fi iOS sound program that allows you flow the music on your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, or iTunes-enabled Mac or PC (or, if the Airplay relationship reduces out every now and then, as it is will never to do in our encounter, then just link the old-fashioned way, via USB). Wireless wedding celebration difficulties aside, the appeal of this system is its all-in-one distribution of amazingly extensive, specific, and precise sound, even of the digital paths on our iOS gadgets.
The new we sat in a trial room and performed "Sleeping Ute," the starting a record of our iTunes-purchased edition of Grizzly Bear's 'Shields,' we thought the sound was arriving out of a couple of Birkenstock boston Acoustics sound program that had been placed on the part (no question, for effect), but the fact is the sound was arriving out of the two half-foot-high built-in sound program on either part of the McAire. Bigger-than-expected sound aside, the most amazing element of the McAire is the way, like any good sound program, it performs back paths the way they were documented and intended to sound, rather than with all the bass-heavy, flattened, fish sounds speaker therapies you'll find on many competitive sound pier techniques.
We could listen to a bit of the analogue, expert record hiss, in addition to some cotton wool swab that seemed up close and real (versus the common lost-in-the-mix processed qualifications sound of the on most sound systems). It also manages whatever powerful range you toss at it, without worry of ruining your sound program, as we observed on some extremely noisy and smooth safari and jazz music artist paths we performed.
Yes, you could just get individual elements that would provide the same outstanding sound, but that can be such a expensive stress. Even with the McAire, there is the issue of price. At three huge, the McAire is expensive for an iTunes sound system. For a McIntosh program, though, which can generally price $15,000 or more, its entry-level reasonable? Base line? So far, it's the best all-in-one, out-of-the-box audiophile encounter for iTunes we've tried.
