![]() Looks, of course, can be deceiving or revealing in this case, they're a bit of both. The present version of the MC275 is its fifth incarnation, though it looks strikingly (and, for retro-cool's sake, deliberately) similar. To everyone's surprise, that edition sold well, and McIntosh, gingerly at first, crept back into the tube business. The MC275 briefly returned in 1993, in a limited "Commemorative" edition to honor the late Gordon Gow, longtime president and chief designer of McIntosh Labs. Introduced in 1961 as the "powerhouse" of that era's newfangled stereo tube amps ( two 75W amplifiers in one chassis!), the MC275 retained its position as the amplifier to own—challenged only, perhaps, by Marantz and a few others—until 1970, when it fell prey to the widespread wisdom that transistors were king and tubes were dead, and the model was discontinued. It's been a while since I've had a classic amplifier in my system, and McIntosh Laboratory's MC275 is as classic as they come.
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