My new beauty : the MC225 amplifier !!

Jerome,

I enlarged the photos. OMG! They look absolutely beautiful, and brand new. Congratulations.
 
The 225 is a reference tube amplifier for JC Verdier.
He bought one to study the circuit and was amazed at how simple and pure it is.
The music flawing from this amp is not comparable to any other Mc I had.
The King of the Kings.
 
Hey Jérôme, hows your journey in sound treating you. Great looking amp you have there, if the sound is comparable to it's looks your streets ahead already. Great to hear the old stuff still hangs with the latest greatest uber expensive. Maybe you should tell he who's name shall not be mentioned on that other site that he's wasted a lot of money with his wall of McIntosh/over abundance. :snicker:
 
sharkmouth said:
Hey Jérôme, hows your journey in sound treating you. Great looking amp you have there, if the sound is comparable to it's looks your streets ahead already. Great to hear the old stuff still hangs with the latest greatest uber expensive. Maybe you should tell he who's name shall not be mentioned on that other site that he's wasted a lot of money with his wall of McIntosh/over abundance. :snicker:
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Thank you !

I love so much the 225 that I actually bought a MX110 Z which was his partner in the old days.
And I am seriously thinking buying a second 225 for an other system.
I agree that the old Mcs are better TO MY EARS and to some audiophiles than the modern ones.
But this is not Absolute Truth. It applies to MY EARS and what I'm looking for with music.
Someone who needs lots of power will go with the modern Mcs. But compared to my 225, 2205 and even my MA5100 integrated, I find them boring.
One exception to this relative statement : tuners.
The old ones are MUCH BETTER IN ABSOLUTE TERMS than the new ones.



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Jerome, you were able to get some beautiful, clean 225's. I wonder how they sound against the 275's? I think what you're describing as far as a different sound is what Mike was having a problem with when he auditioned many of the new tube amps available today. I agree that tube amps should actually sound like tube amps! I guess they just don't make them like they use to.

btw, it's really nice seeing you around here again!
 
Doug - I'm interested in Jerome's answer to this. But I think I already know the answer!

Jerome - can you run the 225's in mono?
 
Mike said:
Doug - I'm interested in Jerome's answer to this. But I think I already know the answer!

Jerome - can you run the 225's in mono?
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Yes Mike.
But I was told that 2 x 225 in mono are not as musical as the stereo amp as it is the case too with the 275. There seems to loose a bit of the magic.
 
dlb2 said:
Jerome, you were able to get some beautiful, clean 225's. I wonder how they sound against the 275's? I think what you're describing as far as a different sound is what Mike was having a problem with when he auditioned many of the new tube amps available today. I agree that tube amps should actually sound like tube amps! I guess they just don't make them like they use to.

btw, it's really nice seeing you around here again!
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Thanks a lot Doug !
 
Jerome W said:
Thank you !

I love so much the 225 that I actually bought a MX110 Z which was his partner in the old days.
And I am seriously thinking buying a second 225 for an other system.
I agree that the old Mcs are better TO MY EARS and to some audiophiles than the modern ones.
But this is not Absolute Truth. It applies to MY EARS and what I'm looking for with music.
Someone who needs lots of power will go with the modern Mcs. But compared to my 225, 2205 and even my MA5100 integrated, I find them boring.
One exception to this relative statement : tuners.
The old ones are MUCH BETTER IN ABSOLUTE TERMS than the new ones.



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I own the newest MC275VI. Why is it not as good as the 53 year old MC225?
 
I did not say that the original 275 is better than the modern one. I said " TO MY EARS", it is better.
I find the old Mcs more musical. Even average recordings sound good on the old ones.
At the same time, I do not find them colored at all. Maybe the components were just better at that time + point to point soldering ?
Actually, the 225 sounds like a Shindo.


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