McIntosh MHA50 Portable Decoding Amplifier

[TSAVJason]

McIntosh MHA50 Portable DAC/Amplifier is official and ready to find new homes.

We began our pre-orders on this very cool McIntosh Portable DAC/Amp September 27th. We look forward to shipping these new portables 3rd week of October.

 

[TSAVAlan]

Unboxing Video is live!

 

[TSAVJason]

Unboxing Video is live!

It is a very cool amp/DAC MHA50

 

[audionewbi]

Hi, any more updates?

 

[TSAVJason]

Only that there is 500 of them ready to ship as soon as Apple certifies them.

 

[audionewbi]

Soundwise how similar is it to HUGO?

 

[TSAVJason]

Hmmm not so close. The MHA50 is clearly the McIntosh sound signature. Warm but not as warm as the Hugo. Clear with a very low noise floor as you’d expect from McIntosh.

 

[audionewbi]

You dont happen to know what DAC chip they used?

 

[TSAVJason]

ES Sabre but I’m not sure which of the Sabre DACs is being implemented.

 

[audionewbi]

Are you allowed to take preorder for overseas market?