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McIntosh was my first experience with high fidelity, and I've never forgotten it. I went with a friend to some dude's house, probably on a, uh, mission of commerce, and in his living room is a stack of Mac, presumably belong to his dad. I was 15 in 1974, and had never seen anything like it. He was kind enough to give a demonstration, and I was blown away. I had no idea a stereo could sound like that. It was magnitudes beyond the console stereo in my home, and any other "hi-fi" I'd ever heard. Either that, or the blue meters hypnotized me, but I've been a slave ever since.
It took awhile, (at least ten years), but eventually I was able to get an MC275, (alas, no blue meters), along with an MX110, (a Z for $150!), and have continued to use McIntosh amplifiers ever since. As of now, I'm using the MC352.