McIntosh MA6900 Amp

erniejade

Up for sale, McIntosh MA6900 integrated amplifier. This is a solid, heavy unit and well built. 200wpc, 2,4,8 ohm taps on the back with autoformers! I am a sucker for a VU! I also loved having an EQ built in for bad recordings. A tweak here and there and the badly masted cd or lp sounded much better.

One small issue with it but, I am told this is common to a lot of McIntosh units. The vu's at low volume when first turned on sometimes both wont move till you hit the volume quick and turn it back down. On 2 different boards, people have said they have the same issue with their McIntosh preamp or amps and its nothing to worry about including one that said his newer C2300 preamp does the same thing. I have had 0 issues other then the quirk. I do have the original shipping box. It cost 98$ to have it shipped to me. I will only charge actual shipping. I believe the box is about 85 lbs or so. If you havent seen McIntosh boxing, its fantastic. The unit gets bolted to a board, then put in a inner box with foam, then it goes into an outerbox with more foam.

Why am I selling it? 2 reasons. 1 I missed tubes for a preamp. I hooked up my arcsp16 to the amp in on this unit and went between the internal preamp and the arc. I found the internal preamp was more accurate, faster vs the arc, and sounded wonderful but, I think I have just graccustomedomed to tubes. I did however put a yaqin between the pre in and out with outstanding results but, 2 I bought a McIntosh MC402. I do not have room for both units since my den is small. Nor do I have the room for a 3rd system in the house.


I am listing this at work. They block picture storage sites. I will post a pic soon.

EndersShadow

Price?

chumlie

How much $$$

erniejade

Shoot I thought I put the price down. $3300 + shipping. It cost 97$ to ship to me. The box was I believe 85 lbs. if paypal, i am not sure if you can gift that much? I will also take checks but will wait for the check to clear before shipping.

erniejade

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I am not sure why but when i try to have the pic show from photobucket, it comes up saying invalid url. so here is a link.

erniejade

That was strange. when i tried using the pic it keps saying invalid url but putting it in link worked. No idea. Anyway excuese the wire mess and the yaqin on top. I was doing some re-arranging. It really is a amazing looking unit and it does sound fantastic. It had 0 issues pushing the legacy focus.

polkfarmboy

I like the yaqin ontop the mac lol


If I never bought that krell I may have took the plunge!!

erniejade

LOl I know it kind of looks strange but, i was testing it out and doing some tube rolling. That reminds me, I need to shoot pitdogg a text since I figured out what tubes I want to keep.

BTW even though this is my thread for the McIntosh, never be afraid to do buisness with pitdogg. Great person to deal with.

pitdogg2

Thanks Brian for the shameless plug
Brian and I blew up each others phone quit a bit heck of a guy one of these days I will darken your doorway. That is one nice set up just wish it was MINE :loneranger:

erniejade

I am going to give this another week or 2 here before I put it up on agon.

miner

That is a fair price for a major integrated amp. GLWTS.

TroyD

That is a great price on the Mac....

BDT

billbillw

Nice amp. I'm also in the 'if I hadn't just..." camp. I would have probably bitten on this but for my recent purchase of the LSA Statement Amp. Agree that is a good price on this integrated.

erniejade

Sold locally. Thanks!!