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McIntosh has been making amplifiers for a long, long time since 1949 infact, when the company was first incorporated as McIntosh Engineering labatory and moved from Washington D.C to silver spings Maryland. However, the seeds were planted as far back as 1942 when Frank McIntosh started a small company consulting on radio station design and sound systems. He was not satisfied with the quality of the audio amplifiers around at the time, so he invented one that gave high power with low distortion. Then in 1946, McIntosh recruited Gordon Gow, who was young but a brilliant engineer, and was pivotal in making his dream real. What they came up with was called the McIntosh 50W1 Unity Coupled Amplifier. It delivered fifty watts of power with less than 1% distortion in the 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz range. So McIntosh, the company, arrived in the world with a bang.

Conrad Johnson's headquaters are in Virginia and they are a name synonomous with high quality audio. CJ was the brainchild of Doctors' Lewis Johnson and William Conrad and was incorporated in 1977. The first amplifier that they produced was a vacuum tube preamplifier named the PV-1.