A History of Innovation

The McIntosh research and development team strives for transparency -- for performance so perfect that systems vanish and only music remains. How?

By being ever alert to sonic hardening, strain at peaks and loss of bass articulation. By winding autoformer coils with a patented low-loss bifiliar method, then hand-assembling layer after layer of core laminations. By designing our own instruments to measure quality factors so infinitesimal that no other equipment could detect it. In short, by applying standards so high that they would be called extravagant anywhere else.

A System for Success

The exceptional longevity of McIntosh products owes to a design philosophy established with the very first McIntosh amp: that every component will be created with capacity so great that it will never be operated at or near its stress point.

Take, for example, the legendary output autoformer: its bandwidth exceeds both the output circuit and the audible range. Distortion is virtually immeasurable. And because an autoformer cannot pass DC current, it provides absolute protection for loudspeakers in the unlikely event of an output circuit failure.

The Mission: Total Satisfaction

The Unity Coupled Circuit was only the beginning. McIntosh is constantly innovating -- from the widely praised Power Guard®, which ensures our amps will consistently deliver full power without clipping distortion or audible side effects, to the multiple-driver Line Source columns in their loudspeakers, to the patented LD/HP® drivers, which use aluminum shorting sleeves to reduce distortion and increase output.

And then there are the more obvious "trademark" McIntosh features. The unassuming push-button and knob input selectors, actually control highly efficient silent electromagnetic switching. The glowing blue wattmeters, which display real output, rather than make assumptions based on fixed impedance or voltage. And finally, the glass on McIntosh front panels, which are cut to within 5/1000" and screened with as many as 12 layers of ultraviolet-cured ink.

For more than 53 years, McIntosh has earned a supreme reputation for performance and reliability. But don't take our word on it -- find out for yourself. There is nothing like a McIntosh.

MVP861
Audio Video Player

The MVP861 plays them all: CD's SACD's, DVD-Audio, CD-R and CD-RW discs. A Dolby Digital and DTS decoder output stereo and 5.1 audio surround sound while three 192kHz/24-Bit Digital-to-Analog converters provide superior high fidelity sound.

The video side incorporates progressive scan and your choice of either NTSC or PAL video output. The MVP861 utilizes a 12-bit high-speed video DAC where video signal processing is performed at a rapid rate minimizing digital artifacts for the sharpest picture. Component, S-Video and Composite Outputs are included.

Sporting a new and innovative transport mechanism that spins CD's at 4-times speed the usual speed and DVDs at 2-times the usual speed, the MVP861 has incredible tracking ability and error correction even with scratched or smudged discs.

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