McINTOSH C2600

The C2600 is a versatile vacuum tube preamplifier with an expansive set of 16 inputs to connect virtually all your analogue or digital music sources. For audio purity, the analogue and digital sections are housed separately in our dual chassis design to prevent signal corruption. Analogue inputs include 3 balanced, 4 unbalanced plus 1 each dedicated Moving Magnet and Moving Coil phono inputs. Digital inputs consist of 3 optical, 2 coax, 1 USB and 1 McIntosh exclusive MCT connection. Three sets of balanced and unbalanced analogue outputs will connect the C2600 to your amplifier.

The C2600 features a 32-bit/384kHz, DSD digital-to-analogue-converter (DAC). The optical and coax inputs will decode digital music at up to 24-bit/192kHz for high resolution audio playback. The C2600 is also capable of decoding and playing DSD files; the USB input accepts PCM signals up to 32-bit/384kHz and supports DSD64, DSD128 and DSD256 plus DXD 352.8kHz and DXD 384kHz. When paired with the MCT500 SACD/CD Transport, the proprietary MCT input offers a secure DSD connection for playback of the high definition audio found on SACDs in order to deliver the purist possible sound quality.