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The McIntosh MC-2300 is a solid-state power amplifier which was built by the American high-end audio company McIntosh Laboratory between 1971 and 1980. [1] Jerry Garcia in 1987 with an MC-2300 in the lower-right corner of the picture. McIntosh produced the MC-2105 (with blue meters) and the MC-2100 (without) between 1969 and 1977.
McIntosh Laboratory is an American manufacturer of handcrafted high-end [1] [2] [3] audio equipment headquartered in Binghamton, New York. [4] [5] It is a subsidiary of McIntosh Group, which in November 2024 was acquired by Bose Corporation, a fellow American audio company..
McIntosh Group (formerly Fine Sounds Group) is an American holding company specializing in audio equipment and owns the brands McIntosh Laboratory, Sonus Faber, Fine Sounds Americas, Sumiko Phono Cartridges, Fine Sounds BeneLux, and Fine Sounds U.K. They also have a Sonus Faber partnership with Maserati and a McIntosh audio partnership with ...
Sonus faber is an Italian manufacturer of handcrafted speakers, headphones, and other high-end audio equipment based in Arcugnano, Veneto, Italy. [1] The company was founded in 1983 by Franco Serblin. [2] Sonus faber is one of several audio brands owned by McIntosh Group, which also owns McIntosh, Sumiko, and Fine Sounds. [3]
The Wall of Sound combined six independent sound systems using eleven separate channels. Vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, and piano each had their own channel and set of speakers. Phil Lesh's bass was piped through a quadraphonic encoder that sent signals from each of the four strings to a separate channel and set of speakers for each string ...
A horn loudspeaker is a loudspeaker or loudspeaker element which uses an acoustic horn to increase the overall efficiency of the driving element(s). A common form (right) consists of a compression driver which produces sound waves with a small metal diaphragm vibrated by an electromagnet, attached to a horn, a flaring duct to conduct the sound waves to the open air.
The company remained at this address until it was shuttered in 1977–8. [7] [8] [9] The company launched its first model, the Rectilinear III, in 1966. [10] This model, received positive reviews by audio journalists, including Stereo Review, Popular Electronics, Buyer's Guide Magazine, and Stereo & Hi-Fi Times.
In 1967 Norman Mordaunt and Rodney Short combined their efforts and started a company based at Durford Mill, Petersfield, England until the 1980s. In the late 1970s Mordaunt-Short released three families of speakers: "Festival", "Carnival" and "Pageant". 1984 saw the release of the MS20, [1] MS30 and MS40 ranges, followed by the MS25 and 35ti ...