Description
The McIntosh MPC1500 Power Controller is far more than a traditional power conditioner—it’s a precision-engineered power management system designed to deliver clean, stable, and protected AC power to high-end audio and home theater systems.
Built with McIntosh’s signature craftsmanship, it ensures that every component in your system performs at its absolute best.
At the heart of the MPC1500 is a large but quiet toroidal isolation transformer that has been specially wound to act as a low pass filter to remove unwanted noise from the AC line. The MPC1500 also employs a quick-acting surge suppression module that activates when the voltage reaches approximately 2V above nominal operating levels. This excess voltage is slowly and harmlessly released to the circuit’s neutral wire rather than the ground wire, where it could still find its way to your audio components and cause damage. Unlike surge protection devices that use other suppression methods or “power conditioners,” the MPC1500’s suppression module is not sacrificial and will not need replacing after a surge event.
The MPC1500 comes with either 6 medical grade Type B1 (a.k.a. NEMA 5-15R) duplex receptacles, or 6 high quality Type F1 (a.k.a. CEE 7/3 or “Schuko”) single receptacles. Only the appropriate version is available in each individual country to ensure compatibility with local power systems. Two of the receptacles are always active when the MPC1500 is plugged in. Control of the other 4 receptacles can be configured to your preferences via the rear panel Power Control switches. LED indicators on both the front and back show the current in-use state of each receptacle.
SPECIFICATIONS
Load Regulation
± 2.5 %
Output Voltage
With Type B (a.k.a. NEMA 5-15R) receptacles:
120 Volts AC Nominal (100 Volts AC Nominal for Japan only)
With Type F (a.k.a. CEE 7/3 or “Schuko”) receptacles:
230 Volts AC Nominal
Power Requirement
With Type B (a.k.a. NEMA 5-15R) receptacles:
120 Volts ~60Hz (100 Volts ~50/60Hz for Japan only)
12.0 Amps (max)
1440 Watts (max) (1200 Watts (max) for Japan only)
With Type F (a.k.a. CEE 7/3 or “Schuko”) receptacles:
230 Volts ~50/60Hz
6.0 Amps (max)
1380 Watts (max)
