MC2K Owner's Club - sound off!

a.wayne said:
Interested to know how the MC3500 compares to the modern stuff .......?
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In some ways, the MC3500 already puts the MC2301 to shame..........:celebrate008_2::celebrate008_2: If you ask me to choose between the MC2301, MC2KW vs the MC3500, there is no doubt that I'd choose the MC3500 in a heartbeat.

Thanks to Audio Classics, without their help my MC3500 project would not have been possible.
 
stereopal said:
For a year or two, my MC3500 had some grounding issues, and everyone thought they lagged behind when placed side by side the MC2KW and MC2301.

But after we fixed the grounding problem, what we once thought as a vintage "old man" collectors piece dropped everyone's jaw. the MC3500 is no handicap.

The MC3500 is the sweetest of the 3 amps, but has the muscle power which trumps the MC2301 by quite a wide margin. It doesn't have the muscle of the MC2kw, but it will rival any high power tube amp on the market and will put a lot of them to shame.

In some ways, the MC3500 already puts the MC2301 to shame..........:celebrate008_2::celebrate008_2: If you ask me to choose between the MC2301, MC2KW vs the MC3500, there is no doubt that I'd choose the MC3500 in a heartbeat.

Thanks to Audio Classics, without their help my MC3500 project would not have been possible.
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Let me hear your precious ..... :)
 
stereopal said:
For a year or two, my MC3500 had some grounding issues, and everyone thought they lagged behind when placed side by side the MC2KW and MC2301.

But after we fixed the grounding problem, what we once thought as a vintage "old man" collectors piece dropped everyone's jaw. the MC3500 is no handicap.

The MC3500 is the sweetest of the 3 amps, but has the muscle power which trumps the MC2301 by quite a wide margin. It doesn't have the muscle of the MC2kw, but it will rival any high power tube amp on the market and will put a lot of them to shame.

In some ways, the MC3500 already puts the MC2301 to shame..........:celebrate008_2::celebrate008_2: If you ask me to choose between the MC2301, MC2KW vs the MC3500, there is no doubt that I'd choose the MC3500 in a heartbeat.

Thanks to Audio Classics, without their help my MC3500 project would not have been possible.
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Thanks, I feel so much better now , selling off my PR ....... :)

The mc3500 where very special amplifiers even by today's standard , I still remember the tortuous bench testing we used to put amplifiers through even thou it was 30+ yrs ago. Very funny story how I acquired them, an audiophile friend had just purchased a pr of , at that time, the then new MC2300 , their new flagship ss amp so he wanted to get rid of this oldie , so i kind of ended up with them . After purchasing 16, 6lq6 tubes , resistors and 2 caps that were out of spec to remove a hum issue , it was wow , kept them thru 3more retubes until I (12 yrs) sold them off to a Japanese collector in 1990.

I never really owned a toooby after that , everyone i had or tried was OK but never really worked for me like the 3500, SS drive they had with great sonics. I had mentioned this in discussion with John Curl a couple years ago and he said he thought the mc3500 was possibly the best made production amplifier , it was truly a really serious effort by Mac , I do recall when aquiring parts it was full of milspec stuff and horrendously expensive bifilar wound output transformers , vivid is the memory of those pretty square wave responses at 10/20k , drove esl's like a charm ...





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Too many people buy them and put them on a display case, which is a bit of a waste IMHO.

I actually use it as a day to day amplifier, and it never fails to deliver.
 
I'm all for the MC2K - when the time comes. Thanks :)


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