Article: Review | McIntosh RS200 Wireless Speaker

[bbosler]

are the people judging how this thing sounds by listening to you tube videos serious?? Or am I just not in on the joke ??

 

I don't get the complaint about lack of a headphone jack either. They decided not to include one. Every product can't meet the expectations/needs of every consumer. I couldn't care less about a headphone jack, but if I did I would just move on. Too many options to bemoan the fact this option doesn't have one. 

[bbosler]

21 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I don’t think anyone suggested products must meet everyone’s needs.

 

no, but he described the lack of this feature as a "flaw" which prompted my comment.. it was a design decision, not a flaw. I doubt they didn't consider it along with many other features they didn't include. 

 

In any case,  it doesn't sound very good listening to the you tube video on my monitor speakers, a little tinny with a complete lack of bass....  so I'll pass 😜

 

 

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3 hours ago, ShawnC said:

I had to chuckle when I heard Alan Jackson playing.  Seemed so out of place for any audiophile review, I liked that.

 

why?

 

A lot of country music along with folk and bluegrass is extremely well recorded not to mention many superb musicians. Alan Jackson's like red on a rose is a great example. I don't see how anything that well recorded would be out of place in an audiophile review. Tim and Molly O'brien's Away Out On the Mountain, most anything in the past 20 years or so by Roseanne Cash, Most of Blue Highway's stuff, and on and on. Check out "Rider on This Train" on Chris Stuart's Mojave River  and "Pallet on Your Floor" on the Krüger Brothers' Remembering Doc Watson... oh, and most of Doc Watson's stuff.

 

most if not all on Tidal and Qobuz

 

if unfamiliar with these..... you are welcome