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I did it, oh man, I bought the pre-amp that I have been looking for.   Not specifically this one, but close.   I have wanted this brand of equipment for years and years and now I have found an affordable (reasonably and relatively inexpensive) McIntosh Preamplifier.   I am currently running a Yamaha C-70 Preamp, which is AWESOME and will see duty in my office system.   It has been acting up, so I may take the opportunity to get it over to my good friends’ house and clean it up a bit and replace some of the inner electronics.   So I was on EBay and did a search for McIntosh C and chose newly listed, I see this beauty, and it’s within my price range.   It is not perfect, it seems to have a crack on the glass and a little bit of the paper inner label material seems to be peeling away.   I will see what it will cost to get it re-done once it becomes noticeable, or if I have other work done to it.   I am going to check with my friend and see if he recommends that this unit be sent ou

                 I am not going to bore you with details of its frequency response, specs or other information.   I am here to tell you how I “feel” the cartridge performed.   I played various types of music on various qualities of LPs over a three-week period.   Break-in                      The first thing I did after mounting and aligning it was to put on a great quality record and put a bunch of hours on it before doing any critical listening.   I broke in the turntable over a week period and was able to put approximately 20 hours on the cartridge before I started listening.   I have a repeat function on my turntable so I enabled it to auto-repeat and let it go while I worked on various projects around the house.   How much force to use                      I started the listening project on the 15 th of the month and ended on the 31 st .   I tried three different VTF (Vertical Tracking force), the amount of force pressing down on the stylus (needle) playing