McIntosh MHA200 Tube Headphone Amplifier - World Premiere Review!
 

Positive Feedback

Roberty Levy


Now for the ultimate. Replace the supplied tubes with Mullard 12AT7/CV4024, still only $50 each for the best samples. Yikes! You need search no further or roll no more. I could not tell the difference any longer between the MHA200 and my $6000 reference headphone amplifiers. Absolutely zero. Not with any of my reference cans. Of course, please be sure to turn off the amp before changing tubes and let them cool down, or use gloves like I do. With this remarkable MHA200 design and a pair of Mullards, you will achieve nirvana in personal listening. If you choose not to roll, the McIntosh is excellent as is.

Summary

I did not go into specifications, featuring ultra low noise and no distortion of course—remember, this is McIntosh! The McIntosh MHA200 Tube Headphone Amplifier is a contender for the best tube headphone amp manufactured to date, and easily outperforms more complex and unnecessarily feature-encumbered designs loaded with unnecessary additional tubes, or god forbid, solid state. At $2500, this is an amazing bargain in the expensive audiophile market, and a sonic wonder. It has ZERO musical flaws to report and is nearly perfect in execution.

I am flabbergasted and dumbfounded...McIntosh has done it again. They now own the headphone amplifier market. Congratulations McIntosh on the MHA200, a design that is most highly recommended by me!

Special thanks to Jason Lord and The Source AV in Torrance for the review sample.

McIntosh MHA200 Headphone Amp

Retail price: $2500




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Anybody have one of these? I’d be interested to know how well it can drive Audeze LCD-4 cans.

That’s a cool looking headphone amp. Really cool.

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It’s little too. Made to fit on a desktop. I’m hoping my dealer gets one in so I can audition it.

If your LCD-4’s are older and have the 100 ohm drivers, you will be fine. If they have the newer 200 ohm drivers, it won’t be anywhere close enough to drive them.

I’m not 100% sure but I think they are the 200 ohm version. I bought hem from you but don’t remember when. :)

I would think that the transformer output would have a tap that would work for 200 Ohm phones but I could be mistaken.

That’s why I want to audition this wee beastie.

You have the 100 ohm drivers; I verified the date you bought them. :ok:

Thanks! Good to know.

That is a pretty sweet little amp indeed. And the price doesn't seem all that bad either. I'd like to meet one in the flesh, and listen to it. :yes:

https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/-/media...ngle-left.ashx

Maybe I’ll get one, to play around with. :scratch2: