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McIntosh has my favorite logo of all time

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But are you McIntosh-pilled enough to pay $1500 for an empty box with their logo on it?

https://shop.mcintoshlabs.com/products/lb200-light-box

Fools and their money, etc etc

It is an audiophile-grade empty box, designed to resonate only on even ordered harmonics with a state of the art damping curve.

http://tandy.wiki/Audiophile_Pricetag

Every single day I go to sleep with my head buried in my hands because I am not immoral enough to figure out some way of ripping off audiophiles.

You can sell them 3¢ hunks of plastic that do nothing for $150.

It's not even hurting anyone. They're all rich old dudes with dozens of guitars they never play hanging from their walls in a room filled with records they never listen to.

If I could figure out how to sell them 3¢ hunks of plastic that do nothing for $150 I would be very happy, but my conscience won't allow it.

It sounds like even your conscience is fed up with you.

Maybe a CD deionizer? Kinda like homeopathy for electronics. That way it doesn't even need to contain any elctronics. In your workshop on a mountain in Japan you let some electronics imbue it with their spirit. It doesn't even promise to add or remove anything but just "align" the ions!

I got a bottle of Three Chord bourbon last year. Holy cow the blurb on that bottle... something like "One day during a show I noticed how my drink sitting on my amp was vibrating..." and they freaking claim to play music at the casks.

You gotta act fast. Once all boomers are gone, the audiophile market will disappear.

This looks great. I guess it can also be used by McIntosh connoisseurs to leave their brains safe at home while traveling light.

That’s pretty funny.

I’m all for a little fun at ridiculous audio stuff (monster cables etc) Are we sure that’s not a misprint?

There other “accessories” are high but more reasonable.

https://shop.mcintoshlabs.com/collections/accessories

And the empty box is at the same price as the actually does something “Grateful Dead” limited edition mono Speaker.

https://shop.mcintoshlabs.com/collections/speakers/products/...

The cleaning cloth seems reasonable

https://shop.mcintoshlabs.com/products/mcintosh-cloth?pr_pro...

What a bargain! That's only $10 per cloth, I'll save a fortune compared to buying these all the time:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MW693AM/A/polishing-cloth

I’ll see your box and raise you a €1599 small foldable table

https://teenage.engineering/store/field-desk

Wow only $1500? Black Friday is starting earlier and earlier.

That seems somewhat reasonably priced when you consider:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand

While I agree with:

>> Fools and their money, etc etc

And certainly Mc is not what it used to be (the MC-1700 receiver for example, was great)... you are slamming an "empty box" unfairly. It has:

  - A light, well, ok, pretty empty.
  - Removable back wall. Eh, ok.
  - A IR to turn on and off devices.  Hrmm. 
  - It can control other DinkyLink devices (I did not make that up)
  - Trigger control to control other audio devices. Hrmm. 
  - It is a sturdy metal box (go online and purchase a nice one, I bet they are hundreds of bucks)

Not that it is worth $1500, maybe $300, and at the same quality as that box looks with the glass front, probably $500, but again, saying $1500 for empty box is kind of unfair.

To be honest, I have paid $300 for nice rackmount enclosures with handles that were custom made.

> It is a sturdy metal box (go online and purchase a nice one, I bet they are hundreds of bucks)

You can get a UL listed 16”x12”x4” electrical enclosure made of sheet steel for around $50 : https://www.mcmaster.com/product/75065K61

In fairness, that's a cheap, powder coated, folded-metal box so we're not really comparing like-with-like. If one of your goals is to have a nicely-coordinated system that's on display in your home, aesthetics do matter - you're paying for what you're getting, not some unscientific claim of "performance".

You never specified anything beyond “a sturdy metal box” ;)

I agree that a powder coated electrical enclosure would look out of place in a home A/V rack.

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