McIntosh is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion the US audio brand has revealed what it claims is one of its most powerful amplifiers to date. The new MC2.1KW Monoblock Power Amplifier has a tri-chassis construction, a whopping great £59,995 / €64.990 / $50,000 price tag and boasts 2000 watts of power to give what McIntosh teases will be "a new industry standard for power and amplification".
The McIntosh power amp is a three-box setup: the audio circuitry is split between two boxes, while the third (the one with the blue meter) houses the single-ended RCA and balanced XLR inputs and speaker outputs. The multiple speaker outputs are not for tri-wiring; they are marked 2 ohms, 4 ohms and 8 ohms, so owners can plug their speakers into the one closest to the given nominal impedance values of the speakers.
