When you’ve got $5 – 10K or more worth of really nice high end McIntosh and/or mixed gear, isn’t it prudent to protect your investment, with something you know has already been tested with McIntosh gear?
You can now get it done with the new MPC500 McIntosh Power Controller. (MSRP $2500) See the product here.
You can connect up to 8 pieces of gear (U.S. power sources of 120 volts AC , and/or see manual for 240 volt protection), and setup trigger cables with your preamp to the amplifier, turntable and more for altogether power on convenience. It protects against brutal power surges from lightning, and also for protecting low voltage devices against secondary surges and spikes that can occur after the initial event. See the three thermally protected metal-oxide varistors (TPMOVs) explanation from McIntosh below the diagram.
On our showroom floor, we have the Controller connecting the Mac stack in our “Great Room” reference/listening room, which includes the McIntosh C2600 2-Channel Vacuum Tube Preamplifier, the new powerhouse McIntosh MC462 Solid State Amplifier and the McIntosh MT5 2-Channel Precision Turntable. I may also connect the Bluesound Node 2i Wireless Multi-Room Hi-Res Music Streamer DAC that we use as a second source for the McIntosh system. Below I have attached the MPC500 Power Controller Connection Diagram. (The diagram happens to explain the connection of a Theater Processor, an Am/FM tuner and a Media Bridge, but for our purposes, it will be a bit less involved for the components we are using, though the process is still essentially the same, trigger cables, ethernet, rs232, etc. Note: this diagram is for 120 VAC, there is a 2nd diagram for 240 VAC) Below are additional photos of our McIntosh stack in “The Great Room”.
Concise explanation excerpt from McIntosh website:
AC power line protection is accomplished with the use of three thermally protected metal-oxide varistors (TPMOVs) – which are far safer than traditional MOVs – that provide you with Line to Neutral, Line to Ground and Neutral to Ground protection. For secondary surge events, the MPC500 provides protection for your ethernet, coaxial, and other low voltage devices via Gas Discharge Tubes (GDT), Positive Temperature Coefficient (PTC) thermistors and Transient Voltage Suppression (TVS) components. Also included in the MPC500 is electromagnetic interference (EMI) filtering of the AC line and over/under voltage protection, which will switch off the rear receptacles to keep your connected devices safe from trying to operate at undesired voltage levels.”
McIntosh MPC500 Gallery - Showroom
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