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Bottlehead Kits => Legacy Kit Products => Foreplay III => Topic started by: Thirdear on June 09, 2012, 05:51:15 AM

Title: Mc Intosh MC275
Post by: Thirdear on June 09, 2012, 05:51:15 AM

Hi guys,

I own a great McIntosh MC275, and i would love to add it a lamp preamp. I wonder if anyone there has already tried the Foreplay III with my kind of lamp amplifier ?

TY all !

Title: Re: Mc Intosh MC275
Post by: howardnair on June 10, 2012, 08:20:09 AM

thirdear-i have to respectively ask--what are you talking about--a lamp preamp-lamp amplifier????
can you clarify

Title: Re: Mc Intosh MC275
Post by: Grainger49 on June 10, 2012, 10:13:27 AM

Lamp preamps/amps glow?

Title: Re: Mc Intosh MC275
Post by: 4krow on June 10, 2012, 10:23:39 AM

Have to say, I thought was a high quality lava lamp.  He he   You have to forgive me, very often, I misread signs, sentences, etc. more than most people. It makes me smile.

Title: Re: Mc Intosh MC275
Post by: Paul Joppa on June 10, 2012, 01:11:36 PM

We call it a "tube" or "vacuum tube"; in England and Australia it's a "valve", other places it's a "lamp" - or whatever translates as "lamp" locally.

Title: Re: Mc Intosh MC275
Post by: howardnair on June 10, 2012, 02:14:00 PM

ok i get it now-lamps is good!!!i have used the foreplay with a pair of  cayin 860 amps which run 6550 lamps or kt88 lamps--i had no problems-i still have the cayin 860 amps-and i have a foreplay--i can't do it tonite or lets say i would rather not-but i could hook them up again -lets see what tomorrow brings--

Title: Re: Mc Intosh MC275
Post by: Grainger49 on June 11, 2012, 01:30:01 AM

Quote from: Thirdear on June 09, 2012, 05:51:15 AM

   .  .  .    I wonder if anyone there has already tried the Foreplay III with my kind of lamp amplifier ?

TY all !

Your kind of lamp amp is a much more expensive type of amp like the ST-70.  Well, in that it is push pull multi stage.  Neither DHT or SET. 

So the answer is yes, many Bottleheads need more than flea power and use a broad selection of tubed amplifiers with Foreplay preamps.