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Neither B&O nor Bose offer good value for money.

**That would be YOUR opinion. For many of those who purchase B&O, it
offers
a sense of style not provided by other products and, hence, represents
good
value. Bose, OTOH, represents extremely poor value for money, since
other
products can offer more for less. I suggest to you, however, that, due
to
the prescence of wasteful output autoformers, that McIntosh amplifiers
represent spectacularly bad value for money.

I don't want to argue the relative merits of autoformer output amps, but
does anyone know why McIntosh uses them, and what advantages they claim
for them?

**They make the amp heavy.
* They allow McIntosh to offer a USP (Unique Selling Proposition) to
gullible consumers.
* They give McIntosh to charge more for the product.
* They have this warm, fuzzy, old fashioned 'feel' about them.

They must have an argument of some sort, since I know of no other
such designs.

**Not for the last 40 years anyway.


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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au