Why is my Mcintosh MC-2155 slow?

You can also consider Thiel speakers. They are neutral, transparent enough that you likely will keep hearing faults in the chain before it during the first month, and have excellent soundstage if given the space. Given your room size limitation, I would consider those in the 2.* series.

Since Thiel speakers are rather neutral, a McIntosh amp will bring it to the warm side and give them a nice body in the mid-range. MC 2155 should have enough power to drive those under 3.* series. Thiel speakers do not allow bi-wiring, which goes nicely with those narrow McIntosh speaker connection strips. Last but not the least, Thiel has excellent customer supports. Being able to access manufacturer directly instead of importer makes a big difference when you need service.

as far as tempo, an amplifier cannot be slow. that is a speed issue. a cd player or turntable may have speed errors. how can an amlifier affect speed ?

are you perhaps alluding to a frequency response phenomenon or a focus problem. if you are having a problem processing musical information, it may be noise, veiling , blurring or phase that you are alluding to.

as far as tempo, an amplifier cannot be slow. that is a speed issue. a cd player or turntable may have speed errors. how can an amlifier affect speed ?

are you perhaps alluding to a frequency response phenomenon or a focus problem. if you are having a problem processing musical information, it may be noise, veiling , blurring or phase that you are alluding to.

Thanks 'Goners. I adjusted the input sensitivity last night. I am going to listen carefully this weekend regarding the change in the amp's pace.

I am also going to check out some of the speakers Aball and Hsindao recommended. Thank you both!

Recently my source has been listening to pandora.com as well as jazz on cd (Tina Brooks, Back to the Tracks), and Arthur Blythe. I am getting sick of my Cal labs Genesis cd player as it does not play CDR's. Everyone has been talking about the cabridge audio's new line of players however I do not like their build quality as they look cheap and very similar looking to Shanling's lower end players.

Any recommendations for an inexpensive used player under $1k? I was thinking of the Adcom GCD-750 as some people love it however I am worried about reliability.

Sometimes the problem is not the amplifier, but the interconnects and speaker cables. When I switched to Nordost cables in my system, My amp went from a prop plane to the Concord!