This highlights Ray Kroc's vision for McDonald's from the beginning. It doesn't matter if you're visiting a McDonald's in California or Connecticut, America or Australia- you're going to have a similar experience wherever you are. Bring the Madness to your community! VIEW FRANCHISE View All Fast Food Franchises And rightly so.Asian fast-casual is the next big thing. McIntosh is a legend and will remain as such for a long time. Once again, quality and research stands for itself. I know that it's not up to most of us to afford the MCD-7009(now MCD-7010), but mine is a good example that applying oneself and having access to internet can get you a solid piece of used equipment. Silent tray, clarity, truthfulness, I don't want to repeat myself. Instead there is a "fade" feature which I will probably never use. There is no on/off swith on it and the volume control ia also missing. The bad, or rather the uncomfortable part: The remote. I have discovered so many new sounds on the CDs that I thaught I knew in-and-out, that I decided to myself that it would be the last CD Player I'll ever need. No sweetness, no harshness, but purity and honesty. That's McIntosh for you!Now - to the review: The sound is nothing short of truth. It looked brand new and souned better than ever. After I received the unit back(it was sent UPS and insured by McIntosh for the original value!!!)I found it in a brand new double box, wrapped in factory plastic with the cord securely packaged and the plug capped in hard plastic so it wouldn't damage or scratch the face-plate. It came back to me 12 days after I sent it to them. They called me when they received the unit and informed me that it arrived in one piece!!! How many manufacturers will do that?! After I spoke to the repair rep a couple of times she told me that the problem wasn't mechanical but due to some kind of debris in the tray and that the unit was thoroghly cleaned and calibrated. The unit was manufactured in 1996 so it was still under warranty. Being afraid of the worst I sent it to McIntosh for repairs. That was probably the reason for my getting it so cheap in the first place. The problem with it was that it sometimes wouldn't return the disks that it was playing. I had recently purchased a used McIntosh MCD-7009 for the price that was roughly 1/3 of it's original cost. I've owned many hi-end cd players from Mark Levinson, Wadia, Meridian (506.24 and 588), Electrocompaniet, Krell but none can match the mcintosh in it's natural and emotional presentation of music. Get this cd player if you can as it will be the last cd player you will ever need to enjoy/immerse yourself in emotional aspects of each musical presentation. Mcintosh produces fine equipment and this cd player is on par with their highly priced transport and DAC combo (the Mac1000 transport and DAC combo) or the Linn Sondek. Details from CDs are well retrieved and presented in a natural presentation with good tight bass and vocal warmth. Piano passages no longer sound bright but now it just sounds right in it's timbre character and tonal nature. This player has a vinyl like quality to the music it produces. I've been a firm believer in turntables and only use CDs when I'm not in serious listening mood but ever since I've changed to the mcd7009 player, I've begun to listen to my CDs more! Its new tech, but somehow I don't think it will quite compare. Im really wondering now how that D/A converter in that Rotel tuner will sound compared to this. I dont expect that time will be anytime soon or even next year.
I may just have to save some pennies and get that 301 SACD player everyone raves about. Since the technology in this player is from 1995, being 16 years ago, Im really interested in hearing what todays Macs can do with digital music. The natural-ness of the sound is what this player does well. Dynamics aren't quite as punchy as I've noticed, but it could be the amp Im running and not the CD player. If I can hear all this on my lowly system, I wonder how the player would really perform on an optimum system. The high end may very slightly be rolled off giving a more natural sound and more presentation to the midrange where it counts. No edgy sound I typically hear with CD music.
I can hear the decay of strings while guitars are playing. The voices sound very natural like they are in the room. It has really good timing of notes, and voice presentation is excellent. It comes close to sounding like SACD discs. Im like wow! This is definately a very "analog" sounding CD player as other suggest. I had the chance to listen to the player today.
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