tofu Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 i'm using it with rf-3ii's. i must say for the price, it sounds pretty decent. i bought it off audiogon, and it was in pristine condition. i don't have a pre-amp at the moment. i'm connecting my soundcard (santa cruz) directly to the amp, so i probably am not seeing its full potential. i read somewhere that connecting your 8 ohm speakers to the 4 ohm tap will increase soundstage and bass. i'll give that a try after i submit this thread, and let you guys know how it goes. feel free to chime in with suggestions, comments, negative/positive opinions on this amp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Klappenberger Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Tofu, I have been using an Mc250 I bought new about 25 years ago. I traded a Marantz 8B in for it. It's super and I would never want the 8B back except to sell it again for $2000! The Mc250 will put out OVER 50W per cahnnel and has distortion well below it's specks at high level, and more importantly, at low level too. Al K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tofu Posted December 22, 2004 Author Share Posted December 22, 2004 oh, i forgot to mention. i was browsing the audiogon forums yesterday and came across a thread where atleast five people said the mc250 was TERRIBLE. i'm not sure what on earth they were talking about, unless im being blinded by a hardcore placebo effect. perhaps it sounds bad on other speakers, but that's far from the truth with klipsch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Robinson Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 The MC250 is a GREAT amp. Don't let them smoke you on this one. It's just envy. McIntosh may have may some marginal products (by their standards) to fill various levels of market demand, but they never made cr*p. I've loved every Mac amp I've ever owned, and miss just about all of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Yeah, I've owned a direct-coupled (no autoformers) MC7200 power amp, originally purchased for my very inefficient Magnepans, and it worked flawlessly with my Cornwalls as well (with 200 WPC @ 8 ohms it was major overkill). I later borrowed my bro's classic MC2100 until I was able to get my favorite vintage MC250 amp (both with autoformers)...these last two classic black and chrome power amps were the closest SS amps in my system to sound like warm tube amps with the Cornwalls; if I didn't own my 300B SET, I'd still be driving my Cornwalls with the beautiful MC250 it's that good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tofu Posted December 22, 2004 Author Share Posted December 22, 2004 jt1stcav, from that picture it looks like you have both ground wires connected to the same "COM" on the strip, instead of connecting left speaker to left "COM" and right speaker to right "COM. does that make any difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-malotky Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 ---------------- On 12/22/2004 7:51:18 PM tofu wrote: i was browsing the audiogon forums yesterday and came across a thread where atleast five people said the mc250 was TERRIBLE. ---------------- I would bet these 5 people were trying to drive there maggies with the 250, instead of the 400 WPC that is needed The 250 is a great amp. I have 4 of them running in my Heritage HT. JM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 No tofu, they were on their own terminal...right channel cable in front of and overlapping the left channel cable. It's just hard to see in that pic. Plus that was 11 AWG cable...way too thick to be using on that terminal strip. Those little screws had on helluva time keeping that cable connected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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