McIntosh XRT26

Documentation on the McIntosh XRT26 is thin. What survives is a handful of spec fragments and directory listings. No period review of consequence has surfaced, and even the driver complement is only partly pinned down. A period review in HiFI-Stereo (1995, p.158) described a comparable floor-standing speaker system with an 8-inch midrange and a column of tweeters, priced at $4,200 per pair.

Here is what the record does show. The XRT26 was a floor-standing, 12-driver tower speaker system with an 8-ohm nominal impedance and 86 dB sensitivity. Frequency response was rated at 32 Hz to 20 kHz, with the crossover set at 300 Hz. The driver array appears to have included two 6.5-inch woofers and two 4.5-inch midranges. Sources disagree on the tweeter arrangement. Some listings describe a multi-tweeter column, which would fit McIntosh's line-source approach of the period, but the specifics are garbled in the surviving records.

Known specs, such as they are:

• Type: Floor-standing loudspeaker system
• Drivers: 12-driver array (two 6.5" woofers, two 4.5" midranges, plus tweeters — count and size unclear)
• Impedance: 8 ohms
• Sensitivity: 86 dB
• Frequency response: 32 Hz – 20 kHz
• Crossover: 300 Hz

If you own a pair and have the original manual or brochure, the archive would like to hear from you.

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