'High Drive' is a nice marketing term but tells me nothing about the output power of the McIntosh D100.  Fortunately a dealer forwarded these numbers to me...   Here are some approximate numbers for the Hi-Drive HP output   6.7VRMS into 300 ohm. ==> .15 Watts 4VRMS into 47 ohm. ==> .34...

Hello,   I have noisy issue with my new amplifier, a Threshold SA30s. i use a Audio GD M7 DAC. My MCIntosh has also this issue but it is very very low. I found that when I unplugged my laptop from the power cable I didn't have noise, it became just quiet.   So I'm thinking about buying a...

  REVIEW: The Stunning McIntosh D100 audio360.org > > Amps & DACs > > REVIEW: The Stunning McIntosh D100   Monday, January 6th, 2014   by Michael Liang & Michael Mercer   35 years before Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs started making Apple MacIntosh computers, Frank McIntosh and Gordon Gow...

Anyone done a comparison between these two?   I have the Hugo and will be trying the D100 in my rig on the weekend, wondering if anyone else has gone down this path?