McIntosh purchased by Bose...NOT an April Fool's joke.

McIntosh own Sonus Faber right? They are going to teach Bose how to make a real speaker. I think that was the real reason for the purchase..lol

Bose is pretty good at marketing and they may be able to increase Mcintosh sales. I do fear like everyone else though that QC will suffer. 

In my eyes Bose buying McIntosh is like letting Dodge by Porsche. Nowhere to go but down after this deal. This is not going to end well.

The saving grace is Bose is a pioneering audio giant with a stable history. A far worse situation is Masimo, a medical device manufacturer, acquiring Sound United, Classe's owner. Masimo dissolved Classe's engineering team a year and a half later.

ANY corporate buyout/takeover is bad news for the company being bought. It never ends well, not for the employees or the product being offered. Inevitably, Mr Moneybags buying failing company thinks he knows more about Failing company's business and ruins whatever value their product has thru ignorance and not listening and understanding why things are being done the way they are in Failing Company. Ultimately, morale goes into the toilet as well as build quality in the product because of the bad morale and changes made to the product by Mr Moneybags. Buy your Mac stuff today and pray you can find an independent shop to service it if and when it needs it. This is exactly what happened to GE Mobile Radio Division that I worked for for 20 years. Ultimately, it closed doors because after 4 buyouts the Checker Cab reliability of our products and the very nature of the products themselves had either deteriorated or changed so much they were no longer recognizable as GE products...the workforce was no longer recognizable either. The whole company culture was lost and with that loss went the rest of the company...dead and gone but not forgotten.I watched it happen from the inside. I have never seen any other company benefit from a buyout.

I had the pleasure of having dinner Wednesday evening with some (still active) audio industry veterans. Not to over-share here, but some in the group who’s current and future stability and financial situation is directly impacted by this exchange are not worried about the brand being tarnished. . They are in daily contact with key people at McIntosh and have no indications that something bad is going to happen. In fact, they are optimistic that the Bose acquisition will have a positive impact on ALL the McIntosh brands.

Just passing this along from some insiders who know "stuff".

Of course, Bose could do a 180 and blow up this up. But not likely.

No mids on your rack must be a Mc. This is a match made in heaven.

I thought Clarion owned McIntosh in the 90 and so did a handful of other companies after.

In the 80’s I owned the Bose 401, they were corner placed and probably better than the weird desktop combination systems McIntosh is making today.

Can’t they just stick with the MC240, and use all that engineering power to make a 40 WPC KT88 that sounds better than a 300B?