McIntosh XR 19 loudspeakers in very good operating condition. Drivers are all good, surrounds professionally done couple years ago, the sound is all there. Cosmetically, a little bit challenged but will still pass muster in most living rooms with a bot more touch up. Sound field is huge, bass is deep, top end is smooth. Only 86 db efficient & dynamic drivers so will need a little bit or power to drive. I will ship, but inquire as to shipping, this is over 300 lbs properly packaged, would be willing to meet within 100 miles of Nashville TN? interesting audio items considered instead of $. Questions, call or text 6152609569 or write. Will be listed on other audio sites as well including local Craigslist. following info borrowed from Roger Russell's excellent McIntosh site, I thank him & all others that provide this type of info for us to pour over. The XR19 was designed to be an alternate to the XRT20 but without the requirement of a separate column that takes up so much floor space. The XR19 takes up less than 26" of wall space, has good dispersion and provides high power handling at high frequencies. The XRT20 column and bass cabinet takes up 45" of floor space. The production XR19 has the same bass cabinet as the XRT20 including the two woofers and 8" mid-range. The curved array was an alternate solution to providing good dispersion with a short column. It also works very nicely on the top of an XRT20 cabinet. Although only 12 tweeters are used in the XR19, the power handling is still comparatively high at 150 watts of program material from 1.5kHz to 20kHz. Later, with the design of the XRT18, another solution was found to improve the vertical directionality of a short vertical column.
Instead of both woofers covering the same frequency range, the lower woofer goes from 20Hz to 150Hz. The upper woofer goes from 20Hz to 250Hz. The use of two different woofer crossovers reduces interference between the woofers in the upper bass where the distance between them is significant compared to 1/2 wavelength of the sound being radiated. This improvement is used in the later version of the XRT20. The 8" mid-range is contained in a sealed enclosure and covers the range from 250Hz to 1500Hz.
The crossover is located in the top section with the tweeters. The top is easily removed by unlatching two fasteners. The XRT20 laminated crossover coils and motor running capacitors are used in the XR19 for extra low distortion and reliability. SPECIFICATIONS.
Response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Power rating: 250w woofers, 200w mid-range and 150w tweeters
Output sensitivity: 86dB/watt/meter re: 8 ohms
Impedance: 8 ohms
Woofers: two 12" McIntosh
Mid-range: one 8" McIntosh
Tweeters: twelve 1" custom soft domes
Crossover frequencies: 100Hz, 250Hz and 1500Hz
Overload protection: main and high frequency fuse
Finish: walnut
Dimensions: 45-3/4" high, 25-7/8" wide and 12-7/8" deep
Weight: 151 lb.
Sold from 1981 to 1987
Last retail price: $5298.00 /pair
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