McIntosh's flagship turntable: a heavy, magnetically suspended platter, a precision tonearm and a factory-fitted moving-coil cartridge.
The MT10 is a belt-drive turntable built as a complete, matched package. A brushless DC motor with electronic speed control (including a braking feature) drives a silicon acrylic platter that floats on a magnetically suspended ceramic bearing, keeping friction and mechanical noise to a minimum. The platter is illuminated from below in McIntosh's style. The custom tonearm uses a rigid dural-aluminum tube gimbaled in two sapphire bearings horizontally and two ceramic bearings vertically. It is adjustable for VTA, anti-skate and azimuth. McIntosh sets tracking force, anti-skate and cartridge position at the factory, so it is close to plug-and-play.
The MT10 ships with a low-output moving-coil cartridge (0.5 mV) with an ebony body and elliptical diamond stylus. It needs an MC phono input with enough gain for a 0.5 mV cartridge and a load of about 400–500 Ω. It plays 33⅓, 45 and 78 rpm. At 42 lb and 21 inches deep it needs a solid, generous shelf, and there is no dust cover. It suits the top of a McIntosh system, where it was designed to sit.
| Drive | Belt drive, brushless DC motor, electronic speed control with braking and fine adjustment |
| Speeds | 33⅓, 45 and 78 rpm |
| Wow and flutter | 0.10–0.15% |
| Platter | Silicon acrylic, illuminated, on a magnetically suspended ceramic bearing |
| Tonearm | Included: dural-aluminum tube, sapphire (horizontal) and ceramic (vertical) bearings |
| Tonearm adjustments | VTA, anti-skate, azimuth |
| Cartridge | Included and factory-aligned: low-output moving coil, 0.5 mV, 400–500 Ω load, 2.4 g tracking force, elliptical diamond stylus, ebony body |
| Outputs | 1 pair unbalanced (RCA); power control in/out |
| Dust cover | Not included |
| Dimensions (W × H × D) | 17.5 × 8.8 × 21 in (44.5 × 22.4 × 53.3 cm) |
| Weight | 42 lb (19 kg) |
Pearl Audio is an authorized McIntosh dealer. Call or visit our Portland showroom to talk about matching a turntable to your system.
