McIntosh LB200 Light Box: I’m seriously baffled

This appears to be a real product and not an April Fool’s joke. For the uninitiated, it’s a $1500 storage box with a MASSIVE logo and no other purpose than to hide the small and unsightly parts of your system in a bigger, even more unsightly box.

LB200 Light Box

As someone who used to work in product design research, I find this product morally offensive. 1. This isn’t meeting a real need. 2. If hiding things is really what you’re after, there are far more elegant paths to a solution. 3. The price is outrageous, even for this hobby. Looming recession, you say? McIntosh: hold my beer.

Note: I own a vintage Mac integrated from the sixties and it’s a thing of rare beauty. The logo is proportional to the rest of the faceplate. This monstrosity lifts its leg on a proud history of distinctive industrial design in a late-capitalist cash grab that sullies the entire brand.

 

Dracula's inside!

 

Two things I noted right away: (1) It’s sold out, and (2) It comes with a three-year warranty.

 

McIntosh has passed through several owners since its "vintage" days. It's a safe bet that the current owners have a different mindset.



The "looming recession" is less of an issue for the target market of this product.

 

Lots of people with no taste and big wallets, & lots of legendary hi-fi audio brands that have gone the way of the dodo bird - if selling trash like this to the former helps keep them from going the way of the latter, I’m sure they’re not losing much sleep about what this particular piece does to their “legacy”

 

I can't figure out if it is tube or solid state.

 

The best way to ridiculize your own brand .

 

Quite a bit of money for a Mcintosh home billboard. And as a bonus, you are getting an included IR extender for those hidden components for that $1500 dollars. Since its sold out, apparently there is a market for this.

 

Have one on back order. It'll look cool in my audio rack and impress my house guests when I tell them how much I paid for it.

 

How many companies use marketing like McIntosh is using to promote their product? .I agree the price is ridiculous but folks will go out and spend big bucks on major brand names products who in turn promote their products in the same manner as McIntosh does

 

I unsubscribed from McIntosh' instagram feed after seeing that......

 

Apparently they already had some sort of light box but it had no storage, so, if true, this is the upgrade!

 

It's hollow state obviously

 

Maybe if they throw in a necktie or a towel.

 

Some other company needs to release a bigger box so you can hide the McIntosh box inside it.

 

And already a negative review, errr industry update..............

A Box of NOTHING from McIntosh: The LB200 – Industry News | TONEAudio MAGAZINE

 

Pretty harsh....and they didn't really talk about how it sounds

 

Stop it fellas; I've already ordered 3 of 'em !

 

Wouldn't it be better with a linear power supply?

 

Started a parallel thread at the same time..M says:

• A must for every McIntosh owner

Who are they trying to kid? Do they think all audiophiles are idiots?
The brand has just lost all sense of credibility.

 

I think Jeff is spot on.... what a joke.

 

Well that explains the backorder situation

 

You are the last person who would order one of these.

 

At least these have some practical application:
Marshall Fridge- Official Website for the Marshall Mini Fridges

 

Nope he will have them for sale at double the price now that he's cornered the market.....pure genius