Frank McIntosh, The Man Behind the McIntosh Audio Equipment

Frank H. McIntosh is the founder of the McIntosh Laboratory Inc., the makers of high quality audio equipment that has set the standard in the audio industry.  He started his career with Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, where he worked for 10 years.  Thereafter, he worked for Graybar Corporation as a broadcast sales representative.  He then became the head of the radio and radar division of the War Productions Board during World War II.

In 1949, Frank McIntosh officially became the president of his own company, the McIntosh Laboratory Inc.  He then lived a successful career in designing, manufacturing and launching various McIntosh audio products, e.g., amplifiers, preamplifiers, power amplifiers, car audio, videos, loudspeakers and various audio accessories. 

Little does anyone know however, that aside from being an accomplished businessman, Frank H. McIntosh is also an environmentalist and an animal lover.  In fact, he bought farms in the towns of Barker, Maine and Naticoke, filled up ponds for animals, owned 8,000 acres of rustic land in New Mexico, Arizona and California, created a game preserve where animals could roam freely which cost him about $200,000, owned 1,700 acres of rural property in Broome County, planted 75,000 trees and paid $10,000 yearly in property taxes.

In 1990, Frank H. McIntosh passed away at the age of 83.  Also in 1990, McIntosh Laboratory Inc. was purchased by Clarion, whose vision was to expand its presence in the car audio industry.  To this day, the legacy left behind by Frank McIntosh is still thriving and is indeed worthy of its famous name.