#Mcintosh mc 250 vs mc2100 mac#

The titanium-clad chassis was a 'killer,' according to Larry. The MC2000 was a huge amp: 135 lbs, with a massive power supply and two power-supply transformers. More than half of them went overseas, the vast majority of these being snapped up by collectors in Asia. McIntosh took orders for 559 MC2000s before the announced cutoff date for orders, and made exactly that number-not one more. That amp was the MC2000 Commemorative Edition, and if you want one, you can't have one. In 1999, to mark the company's 50th anniversary, McIntosh gave Corderman the go-ahead to design an entirely new tube amp- not a reissue. Petersburg was ' Da, kanyechna.' Yes, of course. They then asked Svetlana if they could produce KT88 output tubes. Naturally, they started using them in the MC275 reissue. McIntosh got in some of the Svetlana tubes and found they were among the best they had ever measured. They look well-made and they sound good.' Got them straight from one of the Russkies-Vladimir somebody-or-other.

#Mcintosh mc 250 vs mc2100 mac#

'I've got Svetlana 6550s in my own Mac 275 reissue. Only, he told me, if they found a source of output tubes-6550s or KT88s-whose measurements were as good as those used 30 and 40 years ago. Also in 1995, McIntosh revived the C22, last of the company's tube preamplifiers.Р”Р„ couple of years into the MC275's revival, I asked Fish if the company might come out with some new tube gear.

Corderman's homage to the late Gordon Gow, company co-founder and president of McIntosh from 1977 to 1989. (The original version was produced from 1961 to 1973.) The reissue was Sidney A. McIntosh Lab's first foray back into tube-amp production was the reissue of the MC275 power amplifier, in 1995. It's been fun watching him warm to tubes.

Larry's a solid-state man himself: more watts for the dollar, lower measured distortion. I was talking with Larry Fish, McIntosh Laboratory's vice president of product planning. 'Larry-if I'd told you 10 years ago that McIntosh would be heavily into tubes in the 21st century, what would you have said?'