You have to be careful when buying Mac gear, many of their units dont sound that great. McIntosh makes a great tube amp the MC275 and the solid state MC352,two great sounding and wonderfully designed amps. They made a few Preamps that sound great like the C2200 uses 8 tubes 4xau7's 4xat7's. I think they make a great amplifier,built like a battleship,beautiful,reliable. I use a Modwright tube linestage with a Mac Mc352 and my Dynaudios love it.The overall tone my system has with this tube pre and SS amp combo is enthralling,so rich and warm and colorful (in a good way).
How about Mac and Accuphase
I have a Mac 220 preamp and an Accuphase A20 power amp, great synergy with dual concentric Tannoys. I will always have the A20, it has a very sweet sound. If I could afford it, I would replace the Mac preamp with a used Accuphase C2800 or C2810 with phono. Mac makes nice gear, Accuphase is much better built, though. Too bad that the North American Accuphase is so greedy, the prices in Japan are less than half, too bad that the voltage is 100 and that the Asian units are champagne gold.
Has anybody ever imported a Japanese Accuphase and converted the unit to 120V?
Has anybody ever imported a Japanese Accuphase and converted the unit to 120V?
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