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Old 07-23-2017, 07:40 PM
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How much beak in time did the C1100 have. As a long time McIntosh Tube amp and preamp owner I know everytime I've retubed one of them they sound bright. I put new tubes in both my MC2102s 3 months and they sounded like breaking glass. After the tubes had 50 hours on them they returned to magical amps! Same with my ARC VSi60. New tubes bright sound.
I can't speak to break in time at either dealer site I visited ... one I suspect might not be fully broken in but the other had been in the store in their main demo system for quite some time. Doesn't mean it was properly run in either. I too was very surprised by what I heard.

George