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Who Owns The Oldest McIntosh Gear

wow,
14,246 units sold, i am honered... unfortunatley mine will never look that good due to pitting.

oops, i think the tuner is a ma5 multiplex. i have tuner phamplet and all waranty cards, one of the cards appear to be signed by mr. macintosh...
 
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Ha! I just checked on mine at Berners:

Mc75: ~9,900 produced
MC225: ~5,500 produced

Given how hard it is to find the MC75s, I wonder where they all are today? I see plenty of MC225s out there for resale.

Cheers,

David
 
dshoaf said:
Given how hard it is to find the MC75s, I wonder where they all are today? I see plenty of MC225s out there for resale.
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David.......The MC75's are highly coveted, rebuild easily, and the owners are just not letting them go. Also, there was a period of time where MC60's and MC75's were being snapped up and sold to an eager Japan market for big dollars. Lots of them went overseas.
 
I have MX110, MC250, MA230, MC275, MC2300, MR71, MR78, ML2, C32, guess I cover 63 to 80. I could include the AE2 and 15W1 but they were here for restoration and not mine, at one time or another I have worked on and played with all but the very newest models.
 
So there is still a working 15W1 in the world. That unit was only manufactured for one year (1949). A 60 year old McIntosh amp that still works (or will when it leaves you). Whoever owns that piece will likely have the oldest piece. Berner's says it sold for $149.50. That was big bucks in 1949. Will it perform with less than 1% distortion at rated output when it leaves you?
 
The 15W1 got a few capacitors, a pair of 6V6s and did play with a good sound and lots of pep, as far as I know it ended up with a collector in Japan.
 
I bought my C20 back sometime around 1969 and it was a used purchase then. I can't check the serial number now because it's still in a rack where it is often still in use, but it's old enough that it does not have the Old English McIntosh script on the glass, just some thin Gothic gold lettering. I always figured that made it one of the older of the later glass-panel C20s, perhaps as old as 1963? Maybe I'll pull out the Mac Clinic performance charts tomorrow and get the serial number and someone here can date it closer for me. :D


I have McIntosh Clinic reports on my M20 from 1971 and 1972. Serial number is 6L061. Can anyone here determine the manufacturing date by the serial number?

As a side note, all of my Clinic sheets over several years for all my equipment (Fisher SA-1000, Crown D150) were signed by Dave O'Brien. I remember at one point they weren't happy with the C20's performance even after the obligatory tube replacement and asked to keep it for an extra day. They apparently did some major surgery and parts replacement but the result was a clean graph and it's worked fine ever since. I may have to take it apart and see if there's any trace of the work done. The Clinic was at The High Fidelity Showroom in St. Louis. Those certainly were the good old days!
 
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I wish I had the room to have these at home..but these are some of the museum pieces that we at the store (some of you have seen them)
AE2
50W2
20W2
C104
C108
MR55a
Loads of MacKit30's
MI2
MI75
MI200
MI350

some one of a kind units

MR81
MQ101 - engineering sample
C11 - David Obriens personal unit
MC240 - empty chassis
MC75 - empty chassis
Church bell tower system custom built by McIntosh using a version of the C8 with an MC100

....and the list goes on!
 
A MAC1500 receiver from 1965 anchors my main listening room system. It needed a good bit of work to get up to snuff but now it performs like a dream.
 
chathamdad.......The MAC1500 is such a beautiful receiver, and the first receiver McIntosh manufactured. Lots of sweet tube sound. It is very cool to hear of a 44 year old MAC1500 still serving as the backbone to a main system.
 
Hi Victor,

My MC225 is stamped with the number 338C1--might you know the approximate age?

Thank you.
 
Given how hard it is to find the MC75s, I wonder where they all are today

One just sold on ebay on Sat. for $800 - buy it now price.It was in decent shape & nice tubes
 
lordgarth said:
Given how hard it is to find the MC75s, I wonder where they all are today

One just sold on ebay on Sat. for $800 - buy it now price.It was in decent shape & nice tubes
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lordgarth.......Read post #46. You should have snapped that MC75 up.
 
wajobu said:
Hi Victor,

My MC225 is stamped with the number 338C1--might you know the approximate age?

Thank you.
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The MC225 serial number info is;
100C1 June 1961 to 700C6 August 1967

I would guess your was built sometime in 1963.
 
Im the second owner of this gear.The first owner bought it new in the late fiftees and early sixtees.Pair of MC-60's,C-22 pre and a MR-71 tuner...The empire 698 trubador turntable was not with the original system but matches beautifully with the "vintage vibe"...I will never part with this system.It is simply amazing


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