McIntosh MX-130

Not much survives on the MX-130, but a few period reviews fill in the outline. HiFI-Stereo (April 1994, p.61) introduced it as a tuner/preamplifier with a $3,600 price, a built-in Dolby Pro Logic decoder and six output channels. The same review noted that McIntosh also sold the preamplifier section alone, without the tuner, as the C-39 for $3,000.

The remote control was a $70 option, according to HiFI-Stereo (May 1998, p.39). That review also measured subwoofer-output distortion under worst-case conditions (all main speakers set to “small”) and found it never fell below 14 percent. Also in 1998, Audio (June 1998, p.79) listed used MX-130 units in a dealer classified ranging from $2,499 to $3,999, which suggests a broad secondary market at the time.

Little else is documented. Production years, full specifications and design history are not recorded in the sources available.