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valves via special transformers with bifilar

windings which needed only half the turns

ratio required by conventional output trans-

formers. This meant that for the first time, a

consumer amplifier was able to deliver high

power, low distortion and a flat, extended

frequency response.

The Equipment

The MC2102 has a lot in common with the

original McIntosh, though it was designed and

engineered only recently by Sidney

Corderman who was called out of retirement

in 1997, having retired in 1993 after working

for McIntosh for 42 years. The clarion call

came because McIntosh wanted a unique

product to mark the occasion of the company’s

upcoming 50th anniversary in 1999.

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McINTOSH

McIntosh may not quite be the oldest name in

audio, but it’s certainly the most revered and

has been ever since Frank McIntosh built his

first amplifier, ‘way back in 1949.

The reason for its immediate success was

its Unity Coupled circuit design, which

McIntosh invented, and for which he was

granted a patent and which is still used in

the MC2102. The Unity Coupled circuit

made the McIntosh 50W1 one of the most

powerful consumer audio amplifiers in the

world at the time, but the real reason for its

success was that it had the lowest distortion

of any amplifier then available, and the

widest bandwidth.

All this was possible because McIntosh

had worked out how to deliver power from

both the anodes and cathodes of his output

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valves via special transformers with bifilarwindings which needed only half the turnsratio required by conventional output trans-formers. This meant t

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AUSTRALIANHI-FI|21wound together) for a close, turn-by-turn coupling. (Hence the name:unity-coupled output circuit.)The power transformer is tappedfor

Page 3 - Listening Sessions

equipmentreview22|AUSTRALIANHI-FIway down to 1-ohm, a load thatwould be the death of almost allsolid-state amplifiers. Oh, a note.Be careful with thes

Page 4 - LAB REPORT

LAB REPORTReaders interested in a fulltechnical appraisal of the performance of the McIntoshMC2102 Power Amplifiershould continue on and readthe ‘LABO

Page 5 - Strange but True

equipmentreview24|AUSTRALIANHI-FIequipmentreview24|AUSTRALIANHI-FITest ResultsAustralian HI-FI Test Laboratoriesran two sets of power output testsusin

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quencies, but the protection won’t trigger at high-er frequencies, even for the same power level.The power output results for the 4-ohm tapshow that i

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equipmentreview26|AUSTRALIANHI-FIequipmentreview26|AUSTRALIANHI-FISquare Wave ResponseFrequency: 1 kHz(8 Ω//2µF capacitive load)Square Wave ResponseFr

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McINTOSH MC2102 TUBE POWER AMPLIFIERcreep up slightly, to –80dB (0.01%)and –90dB (0.003%) respectively,which would seem to indicate thatyou’ll get sli

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