Positive Feedback
Roberty Levy
Now for the ultimate. Replace the supplied tubes with Mullard 12AT7/CV4024, still only $50 each for the best samples. Yikes! You need search no further or roll no more. I could not tell the difference any longer between the MHA200 and my $6000 reference headphone amplifiers. Absolutely zero. Not with any of my reference cans. Of course, please be sure to turn off the amp before changing tubes and let them cool down, or use gloves like I do. With this remarkable MHA200 design and a pair of Mullards, you will achieve nirvana in personal listening. If you choose not to roll, the McIntosh is excellent as is.
Summary
I did not go into specifications, featuring ultra low noise and no distortion of course—remember, this is McIntosh! The McIntosh MHA200 Tube Headphone Amplifier is a contender for the best tube headphone amp manufactured to date, and easily outperforms more complex and unnecessarily feature-encumbered designs loaded with unnecessary additional tubes, or god forbid, solid state. At $2500, this is an amazing bargain in the expensive audiophile market, and a sonic wonder. It has ZERO musical flaws to report and is nearly perfect in execution.
I am flabbergasted and dumbfounded...McIntosh has done it again. They now own the headphone amplifier market. Congratulations McIntosh on the MHA200, a design that is most highly recommended by me!
Special thanks to Jason Lord and The Source AV in Torrance for the review sample.
McIntosh MHA200 Headphone Amp
Retail price: $2500
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