Over the past 52 years, McIntosh has earned a supreme international reputation for audio performance and reliability. As it was in 1949 when founded by Frank McIntosh, so it is today: American craftsmanship, dependability, timeless style, enduring value, and pride of ownership are just some of the qualities that have contributed to McIntosh’s US audio icon status.

McIntosh owners have long been known for their devotion to the brand, with discriminating collectors willing to pay many times the original price for a piece of classic American audio history. Like a vintage Harley Davidson, a well-loved McIntosh only gets better with age.

The classic McIntosh look, with its elegant vintage backlit black glass front panel and distinctive pale blue VU meters, conveys an unmistakable commitment to quality both inside and out. It takes three full days to complete a McIntosh front panel, and if even the slightest microscopic imperfection is discovered at any step, the whole panel is rejected. The chassis is treated to a five step, one-hour finishing and painting process that puts an indelible high gloss finish even in places you'll never see.

"I have a C28 pre amp and MC2105 amp, my first McIntosh, I never heard such beauty!" – AW

McIntosh research and development strives for transparency - for performance so perfect that systems vanish and only music remains. By being ever alert to sonic hardening, strain at peaks and loss of bass articulation. By winding autoformer coils with a patented low-loss bifiliar method, then hand-assembling layer after layer of core laminations. By designing instruments to measure quality factors so infinitesimal that no other equipment could detect it. In short, by applying standards so high that they would be called extravagant anywhere else.

"I want to thank McIntosh for one of the best investments that I've ever made...In 1970 I purchased a new McIntosh MC2100 power amp...I've been running it since from CT to New York City, to Los Angeles where I now live and I've NEVER needed service!" - MH

The exceptional longevity of McIntosh products owes to a design philosophy established with the very first McIntosh amp: that every component will be created with capacity so great that it will never be operated at or near its stress point. Craftsmanship is the key to excellence, and every McIntosh employee, from PC board assembly to transformer coil winding to silkscreening, takes pride in exemplary work. Since everything is done at the Binghamton, NY facility, every employee, from purchasing to human resources, from finance to warehouse, from engineering to IT, possesses this rare trait of ownership and pride in their work. They're happy to tell you that they're fully accountable for every tiny detail. Each component is initialed by everyone who touches it.

"I am and will remain a dedicated user of McIntosh components. In this era of mass-produced and short lived high fidelity components only one company has continued the tradition of quality assembly started 50 years ago.
The company is McIntosh and I will continue to use your components as the foundation for my audio & audio/video systems." -DE

There is nothing that looks like it.
There is nothing that sounds like it.
There is nothing like a McIntosh.