McIntoshC2200usedMcIntosh C2200 Refurbished to New Condition, All Analogue Tube Glory!McIntosh C2200 Tube Analogue Preamplifier, Restored to New. Authorized Dealer The C2200 is the second to last of the all analogue tube preamps from this legendary maker. With the introduction to...4500.00

McIntosh C2200 Refurbished to New Condition, All Analogue Tube Glory!

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Ships fromGlen Rock, NJ, 07452
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McIntosh C2200 Tube Analogue Preamplifier, Restored to New. Authorized Dealer
The C2200 is the second to last of the all analogue tube preamps from this legendary maker.  With the introduction to the C2500 they now include an onboard DAC which some feel you should never have in a preamplifier.  I tend to agree and like the DAC in a separate box.  They still make an all analogue preamp, the two piece C1100 but the price is out of reach for many.  
This C2200 came to my shop in very good shape but in order to ensure another 25 years of care free operation it was gone through and restored to new operating and cosmetic condition.  
I replaced the capacitors on the line stage power supply, installed a new of OEM Mcintosh tubes, all 8 of them, replaced the meeter and meeter filters (the old one were a bit faded) and replaced every single light bulb (all 12 of them).  Unit now functions like new and will probably do so for a long time to come.  
Cosmetically the glass is in perfect condition.  The top is scratch free, at least anything noticeable unless you use a magnifying glass and the knobs are perfect.  The end caps are almost perfect except for a few small scratches. 
Comes with the Mcintosh Box, remote and printed manual.  
Available for audition and pickup in Ridgewood, NJ and pickup in Union Square NYC> 
Here are some excerpts from Stereophile review. 
The C2200's front panel measures 17" wide by 7 1/8" high, and the preamp is 14" deep and weighs 26.75 lbs. The high-level (or line-level) circuitry uses two 12AX7A tubes and two 12AT7A tubes. Ditto for the moving-magnet phono stage: two 12AX7As, two 12AT7As. The phono tubes come on only when you select the phono input. If you don't use the phono input, you won't be burning tubes for naught.

The C2200 has a busy rear panel. There are six pair of outputs—three balanced, three unbalanced. Mac knows many of its customers are into multiroom installations, so the C2200 can be configured to control a second power amp in a nearby room. The extra outputs might be useful for devices such as powered subwoofers, too. You won't go wanting.

There are four pairs of balanced (XLR) line-level inputs and six unbalanced (RCA) line-level inputs. And if you reconfigure the phono stage to be line-level, you've got seven available RCA line-level inputs.

The C2200 is not fully balanced from input to output. Not that this matters much, because the preamp is so quiet. Larry recommends using balanced connectors with long cable runs—say, from your preamp to power amp. Any noise the cables will pick up will be nixed by common-mode rejection.

The phono input can be reconfigured by the user to serve as an additional line-level input. There's a headphone jack, using an IC buffer lowers the high impedance of the line-stage tubes. There's full remote control. And you can trim the inputs so the line levels match in loudness.

The digital display reads from 0 to 100, but there are actually 214 volume-control steps. "You can set the volume in half-dB steps." From your easy chair, of course. If you turn the volume up or down very slightly, it might not show on the display.

"A lot of thought went into the volume control," said Roger. "We used to have a certain taper that we used for our mechanical volume controls. As we introduced electronic volume controls, we made the action linear through a long range. But there wasn't much action at the lower end. Linear all the way through wasn't really desirable, so we changed the way it works. That's the beauty of software: we build in the taper, or curve. The C2200 basically duplicates the old mechanical volume control."

The McIntosh C2200 was one of the finest line-stage preamps I have ever used, and far and away the most user-friendly in terms of features. I don't think you'll find a better tubed line-stage for $4500—the C2200 merits a Class A recommendation for this reason alone. As for LPs, the C2200's onboard phono section may be all you need. It wouldn't be fair to deny the unit as a whole a Class A rating because McIntosh has included this more-than-acceptable phono stage for "free."

"I'd put this preamp in my own system," said Roger Stockholm with pride.


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