McIntosh Love...

Hey,
so what would you do if someone gave you a complete, vintage McIntosh stereo system? If you're anything like me, you will set it down in your living room and just stare at it for about 3 weeks... then, you'd get the nerve up to look up some information on it to see what the heck you've actually got your hands on.

Then, you'd probably download the manuals online to look at the wiring charts and figure out how to hook the thing up. Then, you'd grow some gonads and stay up until 4 am hooking the thing up. Then, if your experience was anything like mine, you'd flip the power switch only to discover that nothing turned on... then you'd futz with it for about an hour, consulting those manuals again, and checking your work, and THEN, and only then, you'd flip the switch and it would turn on in all it's glory.

Then your hand would shake as you placed a cd in your portable cd player and then, you would listen, and you'd think... "is that it?" then, you'd really listen and kick back, and THEN, you'd be like, "what? did i really hear that?" then, over the course of the next week, you'd stay up until 3 or 4am listening to everything you've ever loved, just so you could hear it in a way, you never imagined.

then, you'd realize that the only reason you haven't been listening to music as much as you used to, is because your standards have grown, and this little McIntosh, has given you the gift of music all over again. Your appreciation of music would grow. your understanding of artistry and music as one of the most divine gifts of God...

that would be pretty much how you would come to discover your McIntosh love...