Mark Levinson No 33h Monaural Power Amplifiers

Mark Levinson No 33H Monaural Power Amplifiers    

Tested before listing - work perfectly and sound terrific. Serial # 1684 & 1685. 120v AC. Includes owners Manual and New Crates. Photos show actual items for sale. Good to very good condition with few scuffs and scratches. Shipped fully insured. Serious inquiries only please. 

Single owner, from the estate of a passionate audiophile and serious collector where this had minimal use as the individual had multiple audio setups. Purchased from the Pacific Northwest’s premiere dealer (Definitive Audio). Maintained in a smoke-free and pet-free climate controlled environment. 

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Stereophile Review:  www.stereophile.com/content/mark-levinson-no33h-monoblock-power-amplifier-page-3#6rK3TwyCTcMWRJoj.99

There are those who claim there can be no audible differences between any two competently designed power amplifiers not driven to clipping. For them, the very idea of a $20,000 pair of monoblocks must seem absolutely ridiculous. All I can say is that they should steer clear of the Mark Levinson No.33H, or else risk having their tidy little hypotheses shattered into tiny little pieces. Because the amazing thing about the 'H isn't that it sounds better than any other amplifier I've ever heard, but that it doesn't sound like any amplifier at all. It sounds like no amplifier. It sounds as much like music itself as anything can that must rely on recordings.

If you wish to check off your favorite attributes, I can oblige. Soundstaging through the '33Hs was phenomenal—deep, detailed, holographic. Tonal balance was natural, and possessed purity and clarity galore. Low-level detail never leapt out at me, but existed naturally within the musical gestalt—but it was never obscured either. There's more, of course, but paradoxically the No.33H exists on a plane where the news isn't about more, it's about less.

It had no grain, no grit, no electronic character that I could detect. It had no "warmth." Neither did it add any chilly sense of "accuracy." It had no MOSFET blur, no transistor etch, no tubey euphony. No heightened sense of illumination into the event. It was practically nonexistent—except that it did what it did better than anything else I've ever heard.

Comparing the two best amplifiers I've ever heard to one another, I reckon one has to be better. But if I seem uncomfortable in proclaiming the Levinson to be better than the Krell, I am—until I heard the No.33H, I never would have guessed the FPB 600 had an equal. These two amps are so close in character that another listener could very easily call it the other way. I can't imagine anyone being less than satisfied with either. Yet to my ears, no matter how slightly, the No.33H sounded like the better amp.

"Let music be without dissimulation" could be the prime directive of musical reproduction. If so, the Mark Levinson No.33H fulfills that commandment better than any other electronic component I've ever heard (and, of course, I've never heard the No.33s). You can't come any closer to the sound of "no amplifier" than a pair of these babies.

If you can resist them, you have far more self- control than I pretend to.

Besides, you owe it to yourself to experience something this near perfection.

Specifications:Solid-state monoblock power amplifier. Rated continuous-power outputs: 150W into 8 ohms (21.8dBW), 300W into 4 ohms (21.8dBW), 600W into 2 ohms (21.8dBW), 1200W into 1 ohm (21.8dBW). Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz, <0.5% THD. S/N ratio: better than 80dB (ref. 1W), better than 105dB (ref. full output). 
Input impedance: 100k ohms balanced, 50k ohms unbalanced. 
Output impedance: <0.05 ohms, 20Hz-20kHz. 
Damping factor: greater than 800 at 20Hz. 
Input sensitivity: 130mV for 2.83V output, 1.59V for full-rated output. Voltage gain: 26.8dB. 
Typical power consumption: 540W ±5% at idle, 210W ±5% in standby. 
Mains voltages: 100V, 120V, 200V, 210V, 220V, 230V, or 240V AC mains operation at 50 or 60Hz, set at factory.

Dimensions: 11" (279mm) W by 18.5" (470mm) H by 22.88" (581mm) D. Shipping weight: 220 lbs.