Out of Production Now

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McIntosh has an incredible array of products. I count 18 amplifiers alone on their website. I don’t know how big McIntosh is, but I think I read somewhere that the total McIntosh Group with ARC, Sonus Faber, MAC, Wadia, and Sumiko was only $70 million at the time of the change to McIntosh Group. Maybe somebody just realized they need to improve their product line management and do some sku rationalization. One of the things they said in the press release when they changed from Fine Sounds to McIntosh Group was that they wanted to “facilitate greater opportunities for global collaborations amongst the product development, marketing, distribution and finance teams of each of the Group’s portfolio of brands.” That sounds to me like rationalization and focusing more on management practices, which is a good thing.