McIntosh Introduces The CS7500 Streaming Preamplifier
The way we listen to music has changed. Vinyl collections now live alongside streaming libraries, television has become another source for music, concerts, and entertainment, and discovering a new artist can happen just as easily from a phone as from a record store. The McIntosh CS7500 Streaming Preamplifier is designed to bring it all together.
Combining high-performance McIntosh preamplification with modern music streaming in a single component, the CS7500 connects the analog and digital sides of listening today while giving you the flexibility to build a system around the music, power amplifiers, and speakers you love.
YOUR MUSIC, BUILT AROUND YOUR SYSTEM
Put on a favorite record, stream a new release on Qobuz, Spotify, or TIDAL, send music from your phone through Apple AirPlay, Google Cast, or Bluetooth, or explore your collection through Roon. With the CS7500 at the center of your system, moving between all your music sources is effortless.
Six analog inputs include a dedicated phono input for a turntable, while seven digital inputs make room for everything from a music server to a television. Inside, a Quad Balanced, 8-channel, 32-bit DAC helps preserve the detail, dynamics, and character of digital recordings.
A great two-channel system can be about more than music. With HDMI ARC, the CS7500 brings McIntosh sound to films, concerts, sports, and more through the same system you use for listening, converting Dolby and DTS multichannel formats for two-channel playback. By combining a preamplifier and network streamer in one component, while keeping the power amplifier separate, the CS7500 makes your system simpler without limiting its potential. Pair it with the McIntosh power amplifier that best suits you today and have the freedom to evolve your system over time with different amplifiers and speakers. The result is one place for virtually everything you listen to, with the sound quality expected from McIntosh.
A NEW EXPRESSION OF MCINTOSH
The CS7500 is distinctly McIntosh, with a more contemporary architectural presence designed for today’s listening spaces. The black glass front panel, illuminated logo, precision rotary knobs, and iconic blue meters remain. Around them, an elevated chassis and custom-machined brushed end caps are joined by a mirror-polished stainless steel lower chassis and hairline-brushed black titanium stainless steel upper chassis.
For more than 75 years, McIntosh has evolved alongside the way people experience music. The CS7500 continues that trajectory, bringing more of the ways we listen to music today into one high-performance component without compromising the flexibility to shape what comes next.
Learn more about the McIntosh CS7500 Streaming Preamplifier and locate an authorized McIntosh dealer to experience it for yourself.
