MC257

Solid State Amplifier

Experience the latest blockbusters and your favorite movies like never before in your home theater with the sound quality and power only McIntosh can deliver.

Highlighted by our new eye-catching TripleView™ Power Output Meter that independently indicates the real time power reading of the three front channels.

Delivers 250 W per channel when using just the three front channels. When using all 7 channels, each receive a healthy 200 W per channel.

Dynamic Power Manager® (DPM) technology delivers the full 200 or 250 W to either 4 or 8 Ω speakers.

Compared to previous model, dynamic headroom - a key feature in a home theater amplifier - increased 94% from 1.7dB to 3.3dB.

Features five McIntosh Monogrammed Heatsinks™ that efficiently and silently cool the amplifier; as a result, noisy cooling fans are not needed. A quiet, specially wound toroidal isolation power transformer also helps keep noise to a minimum.

Has multiple uses: it can power a 7-channel home theater; it can be paired with either our MI128 or MI254 digital amplifiers in theaters that have more than 7-channels; or it can be used in 5-channel theaters with 2 of its channels available to power a second audio zone.

Includes Power Guard®, Sentry Monitor™, Power Control, our eco-friendly power management system, and direct LED lighting of the front panel.

• Power Output: 3 Front Channels only: 250 W @ 4 or 8 Ω, All 7 Channels: 200 W @ 4 or 8 Ω
• Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.005% maximum from 20 Hz to 20 kHz
• Signal to Noise Ratio: 108 dB
• Dynamic Headroom: 3.3 dB
• Damping Factor: Greater than 70 @ 4 Ω, Greater than 140 @ 8 Ω
• Frequency Response: +0, -0.25 dB from 20 Hz to 20 kHz; +0, -3.0 dB from 10 Hz to 100 kHz
• Inputs & Outputs: 7x Balanced inputs, 7x Unbalanced inputs, Gold-plated speaker binding posts