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In Reply to: McIntosh C26 ain't bad.... posted by Tromatic on April 11, 2007 at 12:20:30:
Hi,I got a C26 a couple of years ago for my room-over-the-garage system, and did a few things to improve the sound. I replaced all (and there are a few!) film caps with metallized polypropylene types (nothing exotic), replaced the power supply diodes with ultra fast types, and bypassed the filter caps with film caps. I replaced a couple of PC mounted electrolytics (one of which was bad). After cleaning/deoxit treatment to the controls, it sounds quite good. Certainly it cannot be expected to perform like later McIntosh preamps or other more expensive preamps, but for the price today, I think it is a bargain. I don't do LPs so I cannot comment on the phono section. It might be worth the effort to change the existing phono preamp transistors, it might help lower noise. None of the upgrades I made were expensive.
Thanks,
William
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