McIntosh MC2000 Owner's Manual

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For Fifty Years
1999 is the 50
th
year of business
for McIntosh Laboratory of
Binghamton, New York. It all
started when Frank H. McIntosh
organized a small electronic en-
gineering consulting firm in the
Washington, DC area. One of
the many goals his firm ad-
dressed was the need for a high
quality audio power
amplifier. No existing
amplifier at that time
could reproduce the
entire audio range
from 20Hz to
20,000Hz with low
distortion. Mr. McIn-
tosh had a dream. He
wanted to create an
audio power ampli-
fier that would far
surpass the limited
performance capa-
bilities of any power
amplifier available in
1948.
Mr. McIntosh assembled a
small team of talented and dedi-
cated people who shared his
ideas, and formed the original
McIntosh Engineering Labora-
tory. This beginning staff in-
cluded Gordon J. Gow and
Maurice L. Painchaud, both of
whom would spend the rest of
their productive lives working
for the company that later be-
came McIntosh Laboratory, Inc.
Initially both Mr. Gow and Mr.
Painchaud were directly in-
volved in design engineering.
McIntoshs First Amplifier
After months of research, the
dream had become reality. The
original McIntosh Power Am-
plifier, the 50W1, was created.
This amplifier was the first that
could truly be described as High
Fidelity, with 50 watts output
from 20 cycles to 20,000 cycles
with less than 1% distortion.
Now it was possible to repro-
duce music with a new degree
of sonic accuracy that had never
before been possible. The suc-
cess of the company was se-
cure. Additional new models
were added and the company
expanded into
new facilities in
Binghamton,
New York in
1951. At that time
the company
name was
changed to the
now familiar
McIntosh Labora-
tory, Inc. Gordon
Gow advanced to
become Execu-
tive Vice Presi-
dent of Sales and
after Frank McIn-
tosh retired, became Company
President for the last twelve
years of his life. Maurice L.
Painchaud became Vice Presi-
dent of Operations and the
Company Controller, and was
appointed President after the
untimely death of Gordon Gow.
Frank H. McIntosh
Gordon J. Gow
Maurice L. Painchuad
Sidney A. Corderman
A Brief History of McIntosh
The Original McIntosh
50W1 Power Amplifier

McIntosh MC2000 Specifications

General

Brand	McIntosh
Model	MC2000
Category	Amplifier
Language	English