Bose buys McIntosh

I like te blue meters and green tube's. Waiting for the aliens to beam me up.enjoy the music and the hunt.

While there will be some consolidation (usually marketing, finance, legal, HR, I doubt they will risk losing made in USA and Italy manufacturing given current situation between US and China) I wouldn’t see this as an asset striping exercise either, otherwise the VCs would have followed that route earlier. I do see Bose however using this to establish a presence in the higher end and use its resources to see what further market share it can achieve with these brands. Given the investments Bose are making it would be sensible to build upon rather than devalue their high perceived value. So swings and roundabouts, and no doubt it will be interesting to see the developments that happen over the next 5 years and the new realities emerge. 

People expressing all the optimism are kiddong themselves. These kind of deals where a large company with an inferior product buys a company(or in this case two companies) that in comparison make something league's above them is never a good thing for consumers. I've owned Macintosh pre and power amps and tho I sold them as I felt there was more out there for me I still respect their brand and their unique sound, and now likely will never be the same. And how ironic I've had my eye on a pair of SF speakers. This gives me some urgency to purchase before they are no longer available and risk the new models being an inferior product. I'm not optimistic at all but that's probably because I live in the real world. I know that's just my opinion but I feel strong about it on this one.