McIntosh Labs is a manufacturer of exceptional audio equpment, located in Binghamton, New York. The brand, founded in 1949 by Frank McIntosh, stands apart especially because of the extremely high sound quality of its products and the excellent technical specifications. Many McIntosh equipment can be recognized by its promintent, blue front panel meters.

In 1946 Frank McIntosh worked as a design consultant for TV stations. He asked Gorton Gow to assit him in designing a powerful amplifier with low distortion for his customers. This amplifier was to become known as the 50W-1. This amplifier utilized the first McIntosh patented printed circuit, anad this perfect unit is still in use in today's McIntosh products.

In 1956 the company moved to its current location at 2 Chambers St., Binghamton, New York. Dave O'Brian acuired a position at McIntosh in 1962, where he spent the next three decades leading the amplifier division. In 1967 McIntosh created its loudspeaker division. Frank McIntosh retired in 1977. Gordon Gow took the helm and became the new director of McIntosh Labs.

Until this present day the McIntosh product range consists of equipment of exceptional quality, both with regard to specifications as far as their design is concerned. All McIntosh products are characterized by their extremely high quality of sound reproduction, their pleasant sound character or "voice" and their typical design. For these and many other reasons McIntosh Labs still enjoy a steadfast customer audience.

McIntosh Brochure 2011 (5.6MB)

McIntosh interview (summer 2009) (9.2MB)

Interview about McIntosh (5.2MB)

MXA60 in Athlete's Quarterly (1.1MB)

McIntosh C2300 review (HVT october 2008) (880KB)