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A purely academic question..

quartersaw

quartersaw

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...I was looking at Mcintosh gear on E Bay today, when I found an auction that I thought was an Mc2300 for sale. Turns out, it was an Mc2500. At a glance it looked identical to my fairly recently acquired Mc2300.
My questions are: What are the internal differences between these two amps? Is it possible to spec out an Mc2300 to match the power of the 2500? (Not that I would need the additional juice):huge:
In the spring, I'm going to do some work/have some work done on the 2300. I was curious about the possibility, just for fun..:D
 
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There are two versions of the 2500, the sliver face with the lower half black and the all black model. The big differences, beside the obvious 300 watts vs 500 watts are that the cooling fans are thermally controlled on the 2500 and the distortion is lower, .02% vs the 2300's .25%.
 
c_dk said:
The mc2500 uses much different drivers, has power gaurd and complimentary outputs.
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IIRC, I remember Gordon Gow explaining that when they were prototyping the MC2500, they wanted to keep it in the same size case as the 2300, and couldn't find any vendors who could supply a power transformer with the necessary higher capacity that wasn't a great deal larger.

Finally, they either located a company or designed one themselves that was higher in efficiency so that it would occupy the same space.
 
Its like saying you want to make a Model A Ford from a Model T. Its not going to happen.
 
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