Bose acquires Mcintosh

[Mikado463]

No it's not April 1st ...........

Bose Corporation Acquires McIntosh Group | Bose

Read the full announcement of Bose's acquisition of the McIntosh Group, the leader in luxury, high-performance audio.

www.bose.com

 

[Squishman]

So now there will be highs and lows?
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[gene]

McIntosh speakers have been trash for decades. Maybe Bose can help them engineer better ones?

In all honesty, I think this is a move to solidify their top tier positions in Magnolia showrooms and also regain ground lost in car audio since Mcintosh and Sonus Faber are not players in the space.

 

[TLS Guy]

No it's not April 1st ...........

Bose Corporation Acquires McIntosh Group | Bose

Read the full announcement of Bose's acquisition of the McIntosh Group, the leader in luxury, high-performance audio.

www.bose.com

So that is Mac and Sonus Faber down the tubes then. That really puts a full stop at the end of an era.

 

[TLS Guy]

McIntosh speakers have been trash for decades. Maybe Bose can help them engineer better ones?

In all honesty, I think this is a move to solidify their top tier positions in Magnolia showrooms and also regain ground lost in car audio since Mcintosh and Sonus Faber are not players in the space.

I honestly don't think Mac ever made a decent speakers, but their amps are a different matter.

 

[Squishman]

I honestly don't think Mac ever made a decent speakers, but their amps are a different matter.

That's what I thought of from the outset was their amps.

 

[Squishman]

Kevin at Skylabs Audio talks about the McIntosh XRT-20 speakers he acquired.

 

[gene]

I honestly don't think Mac ever made a decent speakers, but their amps are a different matter.

Autoformers in the output stages in this day and age are silly. Why would you want an amplifier to deliver the same power in 8, 4 and 2 ohm loads and add all of that hysterisis to the output that isn't a problem for modern solidstate amplifiers. Build quality and aesthetics aside, I see little appeal to owning a Mcintosh amplifier product.

 

[gene]

Bose Buys McIntosh?!?

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[AcuDefTechGuy]

Only thing ever “good” about McIntosh were the amps aesthetics and the bragging rights because everyone knew that they cost more money than other amps.

Like the B&W 800 Diamond series speakers - aesthetics and bragging rights for costing a lot more money.

 

[TLS Guy]

Autoformers in the output stages in this day and age are silly. Why would you want an amplifier to deliver the same power in 8, 4 and 2 ohm loads and add all of that hysterisis to the output that isn't a problem for modern solidstate amplifiers. Build quality and aesthetics aside, I see little appeal to owning a Mcintosh amplifier product.

I'm inclined to agree. They did it so there was zero chance of DC offset and speaker damage. The auto transformers make DC offset blowing the speakers impossible and also reduced the current stress of low impedance loads on the output devices. I never liked the idea, but it did add a measure of reliability. I have never been tempted to purchase a Mac amp.