Hi there --

I'm a bit of a beginner at this. A friend has just sold me his
near-mint McIntosh 6100 integrated amplifier. And I'm looking for an
ideal (and affordable!) CD player to couple with this unit.
Suggestions? Please help! Letting a McIntosh sit idle seems a crime.

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"Fitz" wrote:

Hi there --

I'm a bit of a beginner at this. A friend has just sold me his
near-mint McIntosh 6100 integrated amplifier. And I'm looking for an
ideal (and affordable!) CD player to couple with this unit.
Suggestions? Please help! Letting a McIntosh sit idle seems a crime.

Depends on your definition of affordable! Look at the NAD C521 BEE,
Arcam CD73, and whatever Cambridge Audio makes. McIntosh makes a
changer, too, at McIntosh prices. Or take a chance on a universal player
from Sony, Denon, Pioneer, etc.

Stephen

Ideal and affordable are two different things. Cosmetically, a used
earlier Mac CD player would be good, I would call and find out what the
earliest players Mac FULLY SUPPORTS (has all parts for) are, and buy
one of those.

Any of the modestly priced universal players are good choices because
doing any better is going to require an outboard DAC in my opinion. In
fact , some really cheap players are actually good sounding, of course
they are throwaways as far as repair goes.

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Hi there --

I'm a bit of a beginner at this. A friend has just sold me his
near-mint McIntosh 6100 integrated amplifier. And I'm looking for an
ideal (and affordable!) CD player to couple with this unit.
Suggestions? Please help! Letting a McIntosh sit idle seems a crime.

Since CD players that sound different from each other is evidence that one
of them is either badly designed or broken, any CD player you choose should
be perfectly fine. Notice that when you look at the graph of the output
from a CD player the scale is in thousandths. IOW whatever signal comes out
is audibly indistinguishable from the signal that went in.

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I'm a bit of a beginner at this. A friend has just sold me his
near-mint McIntosh 6100 integrated amplifier. And I'm looking for an
ideal (and affordable!) CD player to couple with this unit.
Suggestions? Please help! Letting a McIntosh sit idle seems a crime.

So what CD or DVD player do you already have on hand?

I have it on pretty good authority that if you plug an Apex DVD player's
audio outputs into the appropriate inputs on a Mac 6100, neither box
explodes. Many other working options exist.