McIntosh and the Gratefull Dead Wall of Sound

At the dawn of huge outdoor concerts and music festivals where thousands and thousands of fans showed up in the early 70’s there was one band and one amplifier that make those early days mythical, The Grateful Dead and McIntosh amplifiers.

Chuck Hinton of McIntosh Tech Support has written an article about how McIntosh amplifiers played and important part of the Grateful Dead’s live show and an integral part in the legendary Wall of Sound that was the most powerful PA system in the country if not the world in 1974.

We at McIntosh Labs were pretty impressed with ourselves when we realized the McIntosh 2K reference system weighed in at close to one full ton. It never even occurred to us to imagine what kind of McIntosh system might weigh 75 tons. As it turns out, our imagination was not required. Nearly 32 years earlier, Owsley ‘Bear’ Stanley, Dan Healy and Mark Raizene of the Grateful Dead sound crew and Ron Wickersham and Rick Turner of Alembic Sound dared to dream of such a system.

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