First Solid State McIntosh Amplifier Ever Made With Blue Meters ! 

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My god man, you’ve experienced 40 years of aging in a couple months. 🤣

For Pete's sake, you look older than Steve and he's 104. Really like the Mcintosh review. Keep 'em coming.

Ahhh I'm getting a Michio Kaku vibe from you today.

Mr. Miyagi👴 please share more of your McIntosh wisdom! Possibly do a giveaway? I am in dire need of this luscious sound. 👀👀 👊👊👊

Jay you climbed the mountain and seen the burning bush! lol the hair is awesome!

Thank you very much for sharing! Please share more, your story with Mcintosh is great. I have a MC 2125 and love hearing about vintage Mcintosh and would love to learn more. Thanks again!

Hey Michio, you really do know a lot about soundstage and space.

You remind me of the very 1st Mcintosh peices I had. I live in Detroit however I found the peices on the side of a Main Street 4sale, I find out from the guy they'd been used in his uncles bar and were in bad shape were painted over including the wood cases It was a mc 2105, a c28 preamp and the environmental Equalizer. I had to sell them due to hardship. I currently have an mc 2100 ive decided to go ahead and sell. Great video thanx for sharing 🔥🙏🏾👍🏾👍🏾

I love your story telling

Great stuff as usual, Jay. Thank you! 🔊😊🎶

I really enjoyed this. Hope you hit the 1k likes.

Jay, now that you are looking closer to Dr. Michio Kaku do you plan to wear a suit and tie for your next YT vid? LoL. BTW, I owned a McIntosh 2100 amp some time ago and loved it much in the same way as you described with your 2505. Cheers.

I actually like the new hair

Nice Story Jay, a lot of People will feel the same way about the old Marantz Stuff.

Love this!

Thank you

Jay, Lord of the Rings perspective on Mcintosh gear.

Jay......your hair needs to be McIntosh blu, too!

All of the reasons youlove the 2505 is all the reasons why I won't ever let mine go.

Thank you for posting this video. I like your hair !

This guy turning into Shang Tsung before our very eyes !

The sound was partly the output transistors, which if replaced were not available, and changed the sound. Paired with the C28 phono preamp, despite all the problems with the volume controls.

Actually Conrad Johnson also made tubey sounding solid state amps, very beautiful equipment.

I have a McIntosh MA 5200 and they do a nice job of powering my Double Impacts!

Before I watch. If you like modern Tune amps this is therefore still good amp IMO. It should be warm but not as sparkly or sterile as later solid state amps.

I’ve owned a MC2505 since 1974! Never changed the light bulbs. 😊

Thats a great story Jay,it make me laugh!

Dude, thank you for this video! My dad owned this amp along with a C26 preamp. I inherited them and run both of these on a daily basis. 😎 Right now I’m using Triangle BR03 and a powered sub. What other speakers would you pair with this setup? I’m trying for a modern/vintage take on the sound. Thanks again! Keep the vintage Mac stuff coming!

You haven't lived until you laid eyes and hands on a Bose 1801 82 pound 250@8/400@4 ohms power amplifier with HUGE meters, bigger than the Mac's, and red LEDs for peak power readout. That was my first really serious amp driving four Bose 901s, two per channel, in the early 70s. You haven't heard prodigious fast bass since then until open baffle subs came into the fray.

You can fix graininess with a 2mm diamond shape from chocolate wrapper plastic with the foil paint coating. You have to glue it onto your tweeter domes on one point for best vibration (with PVA or water based glue so it can be removed). Iol Serious, l do it with gritty sounding full range drivers. Adds kHz and smooths out the sound. Silky treble, to match the grainy Mac amp.

You are becoming very capable and knowledgable. Very impressive and you have a beautiful head of hair. But the color change? No need. Had to say it. Thanks for excellent work. Keep it up.

I'd love to see you review the McIntosh MA 5300.

Please​ do​ your​ Mcintosh​ diaries, Jay, whether​ you​ get​ a​ 1K views or​ not.​ Do​​ stories​ on​ other​ speakers​ too.​

Please try and do McIntosh mha50 headphone amp plus 50w integrated speaker amp review. It seems like a very promising all in 1 for 5k dollars

Appreciate the content and the story brother I love it come across a MC2105 just wanting to know if you had any experience with those and would it be a good match with the GR research encores or would I be better off with a newer amplifier

Jay, I agree with what you said at the end, the distortion makes it sounds grainy. The tubey sound that we hear and like in tube gear is the distortion, tube distortion is easy to listen but SS distortion is intolerable.

I like the look of their MC830 solid state monoblock better - I like the square blue meter

Do the newer McIntosh amplifiers rend to cause listening fatigue after a few hours? I just purchased a Mac MC122 (slimline) Power amp. I am wondering how its sound generally compares to the more vintage sound of the MC2505. Thanks

I admire your solidarity to Assange.

Jay, Have you tried the McIntosh MHA100 or MHA150 headphone amp? It too is a 50 watt/channel amplifier for loudspeakers as well as the headphone amp.I would be curious as to your thoughts? Thank you for your ongoing work. Keep up the good work...best regards...

Always love a good Hi-Fi audio story. Thanks, Mr. Albino audio guy! :D

Can we get a review of your hair at 1000 likes instead? 😂

His roots have grown out. But it looks all right for a comb-over.

I wonder if a mc 2505 + c26 would be a good match with the new klh5.

If only Sony and Pioneer would make a solid state integrated amps that sounds as good as this solid state Mac back in the 1990s....🤔

went from sound samurai to wiser sound samurai master

DUDE ARE YOU DYING!?! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR HAIR?!? 😱😱😱 Should I start a GoFundMe to dye your hair black? 😅

Leave the beard and we will have young jet li in the Forbidden kingdom

I need your help! I wanna get a vintage preamp to go with my modern amp (Odyssey Stratos) I'm currently looking at a Scott LC-21 tube preamp and a solid-state vintage McIntosh preamp because vintage tube preamps cost MORE than my car!!

First Mac solid state amp was the MC250.

Asian Gandalf.

Sometime I think “Buy a McIntosh and La Scalas and forget it.”

Does this MC-2505 employ autoformers on it's output? I know that some of the Solid State Macs did. That might explain the "tubey" sound. 💡

Hello, please review JBL L300 vs JBL 4333A speaker.. is JBL 4333A more gud sound compare to JBL L300.

What is your pre amp on your mc 2505?

Dude you look like The Witcher!

Sottotitoli grazie 😅

Gotta disagree with your logic that being the first SS amp after a history of tube amps will sound more "tubey". The circuits are totally different and nothing from the tube amp that is carried over to the SS amp will make it tubier. If anything a lot of people think it took a few years for people to figure out how to make SS sound smoother and stay away from really early SS stuff (not talking about classic receivers from the 70s - those are sorted and sound great, more like SS from the 60s).

I owned a MC2505 and really enjoyed it until I heard a Yamaha B2 FET amplifier. The MC2505 is a lot better looking though.

You're becoming Raiden lol

Mc’intochs have a grait amplifier, but there is not Reason for paying 20,000$ dolar for a new and moder mc’intochs amplifier 😮!

2105 compare ??

What happened to Jay? He dyed!!!

How the McIntosh MC2505 compares to 6900 ?

Try Sony n86b

I had that one a decade ago good amp , not exceptional

Is it just me or is your hair getting whiter every video?

4100 was McIntosh best vintage integrated...Vintage McIntosh sound is not what is produced today...2, 3 owners later...style, corporate pressures and keeping up with audio technology as to today's pricing.

describing the tube amp by saying: "it has a tube-like" sound ... - really? ;-)

I contributed 0,1% to the next McIntosh video happening.

What will you do if it gets 1000 dislikes? lol

You wasted my 2 minutes talking about skillshare.

Dude, that hair doesn't suit you

What hair conditioner are you using? It's because bleached and colored hair tend to dry and unhealthy AFAIK, hahaha LOL

You look old 😆

Please for god’s sake dye your hair to something other than spooky ghost!