I too, was an owner of the Mark VI and I liked it for about a month. One day I turned it on and a tube blew out. It was perhaps the third or fourth time I had used it - I still had the box next to my cabinet.
I called McIntosh directly and related the situation and they simply stated that they don’t manufacture tubes. I replied that the tubes were all screened “McIntosh” so...
Now I realize that tubes can blow, but I’d never before had this occur on any other tube amp. I bought it new from Stereo Exchange in NYC.
Dave, the owner intervened between us and furnished me with a replacement tube. I sold the amp a month later.
I liked the amp itself, it didn’t have that textbook McIntosh sound which to me was a good thing. And it certainly was pretty as hell. I see they now have a killer hybrid integrated for $3500 - 100 watts per channel into 8 ohms and, I think, 140 into 4 ohms. Might make me forgive them their cavalier customer support...
I called McIntosh directly and related the situation and they simply stated that they don’t manufacture tubes. I replied that the tubes were all screened “McIntosh” so...
Now I realize that tubes can blow, but I’d never before had this occur on any other tube amp. I bought it new from Stereo Exchange in NYC.
Dave, the owner intervened between us and furnished me with a replacement tube. I sold the amp a month later.
I liked the amp itself, it didn’t have that textbook McIntosh sound which to me was a good thing. And it certainly was pretty as hell. I see they now have a killer hybrid integrated for $3500 - 100 watts per channel into 8 ohms and, I think, 140 into 4 ohms. Might make me forgive them their cavalier customer support...