The Perfection of Mcintosh Amplifiers and where best to find them
By Simon Caldoe

McIntosh have been producing amplifiers for many years - since 1949, when the company was intially formed as McIntosh Engineering Lab and transferred to Silver Springs from it's original home in D.C. Although the original beginnings started earlier in 1942 with Frank McIntosh developing a consulting company for sound systems and radio station design. He thought the quality of amplifiers at that time was simply not good enough, and so he developed one with low distortion and high power. Later in 46' he hired a talented engineer named Gordon Gow who proved instrumental in developing Frank's dream. Together they came up with the McIntish 50W1. It gave 50w power with only 1% distortion from 20Hz to 20 000 HZ, and McIntosh was born.

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