McIntosh Group purchased by PE firm


Highlander Partners out of Dallas TX

Link: https://wnbf.com/binghamtons-legendary-audio-equipment-maker-mcintosh-labs-sold/

Second time in 10 years they have been bought. Will be interested to see what this means…

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@jerryg123 You interpret stuff interestingly, but no surprise. Mc has been 3rd rate forever and will remain so. BUT, it is PRETTY! Rich people LOVE IT.

Anyway, PE is in business to make cash, which, from what I can tell these days, is the ONLY reason man is on this Earth. Used to be people were fairly nice and if someone was successful, they realized they owed that success to many others.

Today, the goal is to amass as much as possible and have your name in the public as often as possible. YOU have ARRIVED and are VERY IMPORTANT. Having amassed a fortune, the rest of the world bows down to you like they used to bow down in their chosen place of worship or when contemplating how the universe survived for 4.5 BILLION years without THEIR help!

But, I digress. If something did not happen 5 seconds ago, it is irrelevant, and if you ain’t makin’ a billion a minute, get outta my way.

PE is usually a money grab for one or two people who will never have ENOUGH.

OR, if you stole 400 Billion of your nation’s money, you could start a war and murder everyone in another nation BECAUSE YOU CAN.

We only get 75-100 years here. To the universe, we are pretty much irrelevant and always will be, no matter how much CASH we have or people we murder.

As for Mc, really, at the end of the day, who cares? Some individuals will make a bundle and the world will survive, probably.

Cheers!

@bigtex22  Sorry about that.  I guess it would be better to have posted:

Its 1960.  Let's go listen to a Mc + Klipschorn system.  Maybe they will play that thing where the train whistle goes from one speaker to the other...you know, STEREO.

Better?

Pretty face-plates and mil-spec components (Levinson) do not an accurate signal path make, sorry to say.  I like Mc, but if you are worried about their downfall after being purchased by yet another PE company, I wouldn't.  They will still be popular with a specific crowd, and I am sure their circuitry has improved a bit over the years to be closer to better companies today.  After all, they have to charge enormous prices to make sure the PE gets its cash back before they guarantee the first loan.

Cheers!