Werner Frohn checking out the  new B&W speaker.

Florin Catana struggling to hear  a Klipsh Jubilee powered by (2) 200 Watt amps.

Pete Basel getting a Mac amp to see if their circuit meets his approval.

Barry Berkowitz inquiring about this player’s specs.

Tom Fine, Werner Frohn & Charlie King fueling up.

One of the racks of refurbished gear.

Vintage test gear for vintage audio.

Original unbuilt  ca. 1960’s Harmon Kardon receiver kit (not for sale).

Tom Fine with Steve Rowell, President of Audio Classics and our host.

 Listening session using the $12K McIntosh M10 Precision Turntable built by Clearaudio.

Hospitality provided by McIntosh while waiting for remainder of club members to arrive from Audio Classics. The young lady is Ronnie Rood who set up our visit, thanks very much!

One of the groups getting a guided plant tour. From left to right - Werner Frohn, Pete Basel, Florin Catana, Barry Berkowitz, and two members of the NJ Audio Society.

Partially completed circuit board.

Face plate  manufacture with a process offered by Corning Glass after some audiophiles from that company had a tour and witnessed the older time-consuming methods being used.

Assembled unit awaiting full-load test .

Inserting the E & I plates, that comprise the magnetic circuit, in the wound transformer bobbins.

Finished product ready for cosmetic inspection/cleaning.

Finished units getting final look-over and packaged.

Rows of packaged units waiting to be shipped.

Racks of test jigs, one for nearly every circuit board, used to connect to completed circuit, for QC testing before being installed in product. When every board is installed, and the product fully assembled, the final unit is given a full power test without any additional QC.  McIntosh has high confidence in subassembly full QC testing.

Reels of components (resistors & capacitors) waiting for auto insertion or auto positioning, on circuit boards. They looked like the reels could be used for film or magnetic audio, or video, tape,

Chassis moving into powder coating room.

Potted transformers cooling.

Computer controlled cutting a chassis.

Transformer bobbin winding station. 

CASers feeling heft of transformers before potting.  Our guide is in the background.  Werner first...

Then Pete...

... and Florin.

Barry Berkowitz standing along side one of the mono block (3 piece) 2KW amps used to drive one of the front line-array speakers in the McIntosh home theater listening room.

MAC’s three front speakers (out of a dozen!), each with it’s own three piece 2KW amp. The whole system is capable of 131 dB.

Werner Frohn making his preferred settings for the twelve or so speakers in the McIntosh home theater listening room. We wanted to test MAC’s claim that with this system cranked up you would be able to hear the music with a commercial jet flying over.

McIntosh listening room experience.

Part of the Audio Classics museum.

More Audio Classics museum.