For almost 60 years, McIntosh Audio Laboratory has been making high-end audio components. Their first products, vacuum tube amplifiers, were revolutionary designs that helped to solve a variety of the issues inherent to tube-based designs of the day. McIntosh had not only found a way to make tube amplifiers more powerful, but also more reliable. The stage was set, and a brand was born. 

When I opened my humble little retail store, The Audiophile, back in 1973, Denon was a small company just entering the country. Giants like Yamaha, Kenwood, Pioneer, Marantz, and others dominated the receiver market. But I was a tweak and always looking for something better. My lo-cal rep would drive up on his moped to Venice,California,