Why would you?

[willbewill]

https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/products/merchandise/LB100

[ianlenco]

To go with your McIntosh towel?

[Wakefield Turntables]

I think that is taking the pi$$. :rolleyes:

[walpurgis]

But it's 'only' $1500!

[Macca]

Now then gents you know the rules. You can't knock it until you've tried it. Even if it doesn't claim to do anything except light up.

[walpurgis]

I don't think what it does has been called into question.

It's not foo or snakeoil, and I'm sure it will do exactly what you'd expect...............not much!

[struth]

its cool.. if i had a mcintosh stack i'd have to have it :ner:

[walpurgis]

its cool.. if i had a mcintosh stack i'd have to have it :ner:

It's not my sort of thing really. The nearest I've got to anything like that are my Radford coffee mug and Tannoy ashtray. :)

[hifi_dave]

From my Tannoy retailing days, I have a customised for me, bottle of Tannoy whisky.

[Macca]

It's not my sort of thing really. The nearest I've got to anything like that are my Radford coffee mug and Tannoy ashtray. :)

I don't think I've got any hi-fi company merchandise at all. Pretty poor show. Quite fancy a Tannoy ashtray although I'm guessing they don't make them anymore. I've got a Zildjian T-shirt somewhere but I suppose that's from the wrong side of the microphone.

[walpurgis]

Quite fancy a Tannoy ashtray although I'm guessing they don't make them anymore.

Not sure where it is at the moment, but if I can find it, you can have it!

[struth]

not got any either tbh. got a tote bag with a coffee company on it tho.. oh, an audio technika bottle opener somewhere that came with headphones

[Macca]

Not sure where it is at the moment, but if I can find it, you can have it!

Cool!

[Beobloke]

If it had been fitted with McIntosh’s blue power meters, I’d have it like a shot. In fact, why don’t they make an add-on meter unit??!

As to hi-if goodies, as well as B&O equipment, I have lots and lots and lots of B&O collectibles - jumpers, shirts, jackets, umbrellas, a golf bag, a shoe bag, a sports bag, tie pin, belt, a car gear knob, a promotional cartridge dismantled and set into acrylic, a set of dolls-House size equipment models, bottle openers, wine bottle and champagne bottle stoppers, a blanket, mugs, a pint glass, a milk jug and dozens of pens. And probably other stuff I’ve forgotten.

And, yes, I do need to get out more...

[KindOfDaz]

Looks more like some "McTosh", rather than "McIntosh". This product seems to be designed for fetishists possibly?

[YNWaN]

There’s actually nothing about McIntosh gear that appeals to me; I hate the font, I really don’t like the overall styling of anything they do and I don’t like the sound either. However, some people absolutely LOVE all the stuff I find so offputing.

[Macca]

There’s actually nothing about McIntosh gear that appeals to me; I hate the font, I really don’t like the overall styling of anything they do and I don’t like the sound either. However, some people absolutely LOVE all the stuff I find so offputing.

I'm not much for the styling either but it is unique. Which makes you wonder why you would need a fifteen hundred dollar illuminated sign to tell your guests you have Mcintosh kit. Either they are into hi-fi and would recognise the brand from 300 yards or they're not and so don't care what it is anyway.

[Lawrence001]

If it had been fitted with McIntosh’s blue power meters, I’d have it like a shot. In fact, why don’t they make an add-on meter unit??!

As to hi-if goodies, as well as B&O equipment, I have lots and lots and lots of B&O collectibles - jumpers, shirts, jackets, umbrellas, a golf bag, a shoe bag, a sports bag, tie pin, belt, a car gear knob, a promotional cartridge dismantled and set into acrylic, a set of dolls-House size equipment models, bottle openers, wine bottle and champagne bottle stoppers, a blanket, mugs, a pint glass, a milk jug and dozens of pens. And probably other stuff I’ve forgotten.

And, yes, I do need to get out more...You'd like their clock then :)

https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/products/merchandise/McIntosh-Clock

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[Audio Al]

From my Tannoy retailing days, I have a customised for me, bottle of Tannoy whisky.

Full or empty :eyebrows:

[Stratmangler]

Full or empty :eyebrows:

He said a bottle of Whisky.
If there was nothing in it it's an empty Whisky bottle :doh:

[Beobloke]

You'd like their clock then :)

https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/products/merchandise/McIntosh-Clock

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Oh Christ, I wish you hadn’t shown me that...

[walpurgis]

Oh Christ, I wish you hadn’t shown me that...

I remember Matron saying that. :D

[Ian7633]

I've found a less expensive one....

http://i64.tinypic.com/25i270x.jpg

[walpurgis]

Quality!.........not. :)

[Pigmy Pony]

I would wait for one to come up secondhand - new ones are just too dear, even though LED technology has become increasingly affordable for your average Joe. Just look at LED tellies - started out costing thousands, now a decent one can be had for 300 quid or less.

And over time the LED (sorry, direct LED) backlighting will save you money compared to ones using a bulb. When I installed an LED security light to replace the old halogen jobbie, the savings were immediate and obvious - plummeting from 5p a year to less than a penny. :)

So that's why I would.

[Barry]

There’s actually nothing about McIntosh gear that appeals to me; I hate the font, I really don’t like the overall styling of anything they do and I don’t like the sound either. However, some people absolutely LOVE all the stuff I find so offputing.

But they've got pretty blue meters that serve no purpose at all (except distract). Even their turntable has a pretty blue meter to tell you what the speed is (as if you couldn't tell by listening)!

But apart from that, I agree with what you have written.

[Barry]

I don't think I've got any hi-fi company merchandise at all. Pretty poor show. Quite fancy a Tannoy ashtray although I'm guessing they don't make them anymore. I've got a Zildjian T-shirt somewhere but I suppose that's from the wrong side of the microphone.

hifi_dave of this parish kindly gave me a Mark Levinson polo shirt, which I do like wearing. And I'm tempted by a Nagra T-shirt, save I don't really look good wearing T-shirts.

Considering the amount of Quad gear I have, I'm surprised I haven't got a Quad sweatshirt or similar; but I don't think Quad had any made - it would have been somewhat infra dig for them to do so.

[walpurgis]

I have an Amstrad teeshirt, I keep it next to my Bose one. :D

[walpurgis]

But they've got pretty blue meters that serve no purpose at all (except distract).

I dislike meters. Probably because of the reason some like them. Hi-Fi with meters is a bit like bathrooms with gold taps. And yes, I am a grumpy old git. So there!! ;)

[Pigmy Pony]

There’s actually nothing about McIntosh gear that appeals to me; I hate the font, I really don’t like the overall styling of anything they do and I don’t like the sound either. However, some people absolutely LOVE all the stuff I find so offputing.

If Gomez Addams Had been into Hi-Fi in the sixties it would have looked like McIntosh gear.

And I find people who have merchandise to be a bunch of posers, like the guy with the Ferrari key fob. Sad. Having said that, I do possess a Richer Sounds mug.

[struth]

I can see why folks don't like it. I'm not 100% lovin' it either and the big blue meters can be offputting, but it also has something looks wise too

http://www.sonicflare.com/McIntosh%20Martin%20Logan.jpg

[Beobloke]

Personally, I love the styling and especially the meters! I’ve not heard that much stuff by them but everything I have heard has impressed.

Still want that clock...

[spendorman]

Somewhere I have a 6" steel rule in leather case, has Vitavox on it. Many decades ago it given to me by the Technical Manager of Vitavox.

[Pigmy Pony]

Somewhere I have a 6" steel rule in leather case, has Vitavox on it. Many decades ago it given to me by the Technical Manager of Vitavox.

6"? That's nothing! I have an 8 metre tape measure with Stanley on it. It was sold to me by a nice man at Screwfix whose name, funnily enough, wasn't Stanley. :)

[Pigmy Pony]

I also have a hat with 'Sony' on the front. I never wear it though, as I don't have a hat face.

[Macca]

That's funny I have a knife with Stanley on it and I got that in Maplins. I didn't know the name of the bloke who sold it to me but one of the girls who worked there told me 'He's a dick.'

[Pigmy Pony]

I once bought a dick, actually a 'Rampant Rabbit' (a gift for someone else!) from a nice lady in Ann Summers. Didn't catch her name but it probably wasn't Stanley.

We seem to have moved away from McIntosh a bit.

[spendorman]

6"? That's nothing! I have an 8 metre tape measure with Stanley on it. It was sold to me by a nice man at Screwfix whose name, funnily enough, wasn't Stanley. :)

lol! I can beat that I have a large spanner with King Dick on it.

[Barry]

lol! I can beat that I have a large spanner with King Dick on it.

How long is your King Dick? Mine is 9.5" long (the spanner that is).

[spendorman]

How long is your King Dick? Mine is 9.5" long (the spanner that is).
I'll have to look for it, so it must be small!

I think I have a large King Dick adjustable, probably 12" or more, I also have a small one which was part of the tool-kit supplied with Rover 3.5 Coupe.

Also have a set of open ended King Dick spanners.

The small King Dick adjustable is very much like this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JNgH2kk8pu4/TFKxR4s1BWI/AAAAAAAAIDo/orwS4g3ryqU/s1600/King-Dick_adjustable-spanner_SIDEBURN.jpg

[Pigmy Pony]

I'll have to look for it, so it must be small!

I think I have a large King Dick adjustable, probably 12" or more, I also have a small one which was part of the tool-kit supplied with Rover 3.5 Coupe.

Also have a set of open ended King Dick spanners.

The small King Dick adjustable is very much like this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JNgH2kk8pu4/TFKxR4s1BWI/AAAAAAAAIDo/orwS4g3ryqU/s1600/King-Dick_adjustable-spanner_SIDEBURN.jpg

Looks like we have a winner! I'm surprised a Rover toolkit included spanners though - I thought it would be just a hammer and a tow rope.