McIntosh C2300

Thanks everyone for your input. I should have did a search prior to my post and I would have gotten the answers to my question. I will call McIntosh tomorrow and state my case, but from what I have thus far, you need to walk into the store and buy it over the counter. While I may not agree, that's what it is.

To me that is a poor customer service policy. If a consumer has a comfort level and trust in a particular dealer and they just happen to be hundreds of miles away, you must spend another $500 in T&E to pay $6,000.00 retail and tax for a product that I could buy locally from a dealer that 1) I don't know, 2) have visited and do not care for and would not take a radio to them let alone a high end pre.

I may still buy the product but may buy from AGon. Then Mac looses the revenue from the sale. Or I may look at other pres.

Thanks,

Lou

I had the C2300 and it is built like a tank. I bought it used on AG with less than 200 hours on it. Never an issue.

If you do buy used, ensure those plastic feet are in place in the bottom of the inside carton and put some foam under the front panel/glass to preculde any shipping damage. The 2300's outer and inner box weigh something like 20 lbs and is substantial but doing the above will ensure if you do buy used it will get to you without any damage.

I also switched out the two linestage tubes as the standard Chinese tubes that Mac uses aren't the best sounding in my opinion.

Very flexible and nice sounding preamp.

what changes would you make to the c2300 to make it more ideal? for example, the tubes that come with the unit are not really that good so what should i change them to?

The tubes are good, the pre-amp sounds great. I use the stock tubes for a good while before I broke it open and rolled 'em.

As an update, spoke to McIntosh VP of sales who will remain nameless. Let's just say that we did not come to a mutually agreable resolution and I will be looking at other companies/products that comparable. More than likely i will buy another CJ which suits me just fine. I will not have any company dictate to me where I can and cannot do business based on their archaic policies.

Thanks,

Lou