[Seamaster]

  The dealer in my area just called me to let me know they already received the MHA-100. I will try to go over there on Thursday night. I ma really interested to see if they can really drive the HE-6 out of the headphones output.

Can you bring multiple headphones with different impedance?

 

[musicman59]

I am planning on bringing the W3000ANV for low impedance, the HD800 for high impedance and the HE-6 for power hungry.

 

[snejk]

Looking forward to your impressions musicman. Will you try the HE6 with the speaker taps as well?

 

[musicman59]

If they allow me....
I asked McIntosh if the amp could have a problem connecting a 50 ohm resistance in the speakers tab and they never addressed that question.
I guess it should not because I have been driving them out of my 50 watts Threshold with no issues and sound wonderful. It just would be great to have one amp for all of them.

 

[snejk]

This is what Ron Cornelius of Mcintosh said when asked about the HE6:
You will have many options with the MHA100. You can chose a higher impedance output like 150 to 600 ohms which will increase the output of MHA100 or you can use the speaker outputs which we rate at 50 watts into 8 ohms.
 
So I guess you could say it's officially approved by Mcintosh to use the speaker outputs

 

[Cante Ista]

  If they allow me....
I asked McIntosh if the amp could have a problem connecting a 50 ohm resistance in the speakers tab and they never addressed that question.
I guess it should not because I have been driving them out of my 50 watts Threshold with no issues and sound wonderful. It just would be great to have one amp for all of them.

I am also interested in speaker output performance on HE6. Would really appreciate you impressions. 

 

[Seamaster]

  I am planning on bringing the W3000ANV for low impedance, the HD800 for high impedance and the HE-6 for power hungry.

Thanks for that effort.
 
 
I also wonder how good are its speaker taps compare to bigger intergrated Mac.

 

[musicman59]

  This is what Ron Cornelius of Mcintosh said when asked about the HE6:
You will have many options with the MHA100. You can chose a higher impedance output like 150 to 600 ohms which will increase the output of MHA100 or you can use the speaker outputs which we rate at 50 watts into 8 ohms.
 
So I guess you could say it's officially approved by Mcintosh to use the speaker outputs

 
Haven't seen his answer on that before. Thanks!

 

[bmichels]

I am planning on bringing the W3000ANV for low impedance, the HD800 for high impedance and the HE-6 for power hungry.

And a LCD X or/and an Alpha Dog )) ?

 

[musicman59]

And a LCD X or/and an Alpha Dog )) ?

Don't have either one of those two. Sorry.

 

[cadomanis]

Got a chance for a listening session of the mha100 at a dealer in nyc today. Listened to LCD-x, hd700, hd800, and the Beyer T1. Needless to say a pretty awesom 30 minutes in headphone heaven. Sadly don't have the funds to buy any of those right now, but couldn't pass up the chance. Was most impressed with LCD-x , but everything sounded great. Listened to the same Bach Cello suite through all the cans. Amp seemed able to drive any of them to listening levels beyond anything I could tolerate. Not sure of the digital file type, but the dac seemed to do well with all the tracks I tried. Unit has that classic Mc look. I was definitely impressed but admittedly this was my first time hearing some of the cans at this price point. Ohh to have $8000 to drop on a system tomorrow! If you are ever in NYC look up Al and Stereo Exchange and he'll let you have so e fun in the listening room and give you some completely frank and unbiased opinions to boot - " really anything in here is a waste to listening to after you have tried the Audeze"

 

[madmax67]

  I am planning on bringing the W3000ANV for low impedance, the HD800 for high impedance and the HE-6 for power hungry.

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[musicman59]

I am getting excited about going to the dealer tomorrow night to audition the MHA100. The only problem is that I can not find my wallet! My wife most likely hide it from me 

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I hope there will be not too many people at the shop so I can spend good amount of time with the unit and the 3 cans I am planning on bringing.

 

[bmichels]

  I am getting excited about going to the dealer tomorrow night to audition the MHA100. The only problem is that I can not find my wallet! My wife most likely hide it from me 

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I hope there will be not too many people at the shop so I can spend good amount of time with the unit and the 3 cans I am planning on bringing.

 
very very interested in your listening results...
 
Indeed I placed a pre-order for a EC4-45 (see bellow), but... this McIntosh is also tempting.  
 
 
2 VERY different style !!   (and please avoid to advice "buy booth"

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[Seamaster]

  I am getting excited about going to the dealer tomorrow night to audition the MHA100. The only problem is that I can not find my wallet! My wife most likely hide it from me 

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I hope there will be not too many people at the shop so I can spend good amount of time with the unit and the 3 cans I am planning on bringing.

 
Please test the speaker taps for me, Thanks.