McINTOSH
Founded in 1949 in Maryland · Binghamton, New York State
- Founded
- 1949
- Location
- Silver Spring, Maryland
- Founders
- Frank H. McIntosh, Gordon Gow
- Production today
- Binghamton — transformers wound by hand
- Landmark product
- The MC275, a valve amplifier from 1961, still built today
- Official site
- mcintoshlabs.com ↗(opens in a new tab)
- In Binghamton, New York State, since 1951
Recognisable without a logo
The blue VU meters and the green backlit lettering. Two lights, and the black chassis is recognisable across a room without reading a single letter. Add the Unity Coupled Circuit, patented at the very beginning and still in service, and the MC275 of 1961 — a valve amplifier still in production today, which almost never happens in this industry.
What we made of it
The first HiFi Lovers pair, a hand-painted Dunk Low carrying the blue of the VU meters, the green of the logo and the VU scale itself.