Loudspeaker manufacturers

Altec Lansing Technologies, Inc. is a manufacturer of speakers and related components. It is famous for its Voice of the Theater line of speakers and the inMotion line of speakers for the Apple iPod. ...more on Wikipedia about "Altec Lansing"

Amphion Loudspeakers is a Kuopio, Finland based company producing high-quality loudspeakers. In their designs, they emphasize controlled directivity to minimize the effect of room reflections on sound quality. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amphion Loudspeakers"

Bang & Olufsen (B&O) is a Danish company that designs high end audio products, television sets, and telephones. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bang & Olufsen"

Blaupunkt GmbH ( German for "blue dot") is a German electronic equipment manufacturer, noted for their home and car audio equipment. It is a 100% subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH. Founded in 1923 in Berlin as "Ideal", the company changed its name to "Blaupunkt" in 1938, named after the unique blue dot painted onto its headphones. After the Second World War, Blaupunkt moved their headquarters and production to the town of Hildesheim. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blaupunkt"

The Bose Corporation is a privately held American company based in Framingham, Massachusetts that specializes in audio equipment. The company was founded in 1964. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bose Corporation"

Bowers & Wilkins is a British loudspeaker manufacturing company. The company name is often abbreviated to just B&W. The company was founded by John Bowers in 1966. One of their main product lines is the Nautilus speaker. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bowers & Wilkins"

Cambridge SoundWorks is an Andover, Massachusetts based consumer audio manufacturer and retailer. The company is a subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd., and has retail locations throughout New England as well as the San Francisco Bay Area. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cambridge SoundWorks"

Celestion is a British maker of loudspeakers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Celestion"

DALI stands for Danish Audiophile Loudspeaker Industry, a danish manufacturer of high-end loudspeakers. The company was founded in 1983 by Peter Lyngdorf, as an attempt to comply with the still increasing demands on audio quality from the Hi-Fi community. ...more on Wikipedia about "Danish Audiophile Loudspeaker Industry"

Electrocompaniet is a Norwegian manufacturer of high-end audio products. During their thirty years of existence they've gone from a basic, but widely known 25 watt amplifier, to creating huge dual monaural class A amplifiers, loudspeakers, cables, digital-to-analog converters, and more. ...more on Wikipedia about "Electrocompaniet"

Genelec, founded in 1978 by Ilpo Martikainen and based in Iisalmi, Finland, is a manufacturer of active loudspeaker systems especially for professional studio recording, mixing and mastering applications. In 2002, Genelec introduced a range of home cinema loudspeakers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Genelec"

Harman Kardon, a division of Harman International Industries (NYSE: HAR), is a leading manufacturer of home and car audio equipment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harman Kardon"

JBL or JBL Professional is an American audio manufacturer founded by James Bullough Lansing in 1946 and is now part of Harman International, who also owns audio manufacturer Harman Kardon and Infinity. JBL specialises in home, car, and professional audio systems. Many of their systems are portable. ...more on Wikipedia about "JBL"

British loudspeaker manufacturer KEF was founded in 1961 by an electrical engineer named Raymond Cooke in a Nissen hut on the premises of a metal working operation called Kent Engineering & Foundry (hence KEF), on the banks of the River Medway, near Maidstone in Kent. ...more on Wikipedia about "KEF"

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Klipsch Audio Technologies is one of the most successful consumer and professional speaker companies in America. Founded in Arkansas in 1946 by Paul W Klipsch, it produces loudspeaker drivers and enclosures, as well as complete loudspeakers for home audio, theater sound systems, public address applications, and even personal computers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Klipsch"

Krell Industries Inc., founded by its C.E.O. and chief designer Dan D'Agostino, is one of America's largest manufacturers of high-end audio systems. While most of their acclaim has come from their power amplifiers and CD players, with the Master Reference Amplifier which is priced at some $100K being their top-of-the-line model, they also make pre amplifiers, loudspeakers, subwoofers, SACD players, and more. ...more on Wikipedia about "Krell Industries Inc."

Mackie is a brand of the USA based company LOUD Technologies Inc. The Mackie brand is used on professional music and sound playback equipment like mixing consoles, loudspeakers and DAW control surfaces. Price and quality wise Mackie equipment falls in the mid to high end (semi) pro range. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mackie"

Magnepan is a legendary high end audio speaker manufacturer located in the USA. Magnepan speakers are somewhat different from conventional speakers since they use a quite different sound reproduction system. Rather than using speaker cones Magnepan use a planar or "ribbon" system consisting of thin aluminum foil-like strips attached to a thin sheet of mylar. The mylar sheet resides in a magnetic field created by a set of permanent magnets. When an amplified signal is applied to the aluminum foil the mylar sheet vibrates projecting sound in all directions. The benefits of this approach are many, but the most quoted is the extremely short response-to-signal time which creates a sharp, precise and 'large' soundstage. See "ribbon" within Loudspeaker ...more on Wikipedia about "Magnepan"

Martin-Logan is a North American company producing floor-standing hybrid electrostatic loudspeakers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Martin-Logan"

Mordaunt-Short is a loudspeaker manufacturer in the UK. They are now a subsidiary of Audio Partnership Plc., having been bought from TGI Plc. in 1999. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mordaunt-Short"

Paradigm is a Canadian electronics company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paradigm Electronics"

ProAc is a British loudspeaker manufacturing company. The company was founded by Stewart Tyler in 1979. ...more on Wikipedia about "Proac"

PSB Speakers is a Canadian loudspeaker company founded in 1972 by Paul Barton. The company is named after Barton and his wife Sue. ...more on Wikipedia about "PSB Speakers"

Quad Electroacoustics is a famous British manufacturer of high end audio equipment, based in Huntingdon, England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Quad Electroacoustics"

Dr. Sidney Harman, currently chairman of Harman International Industries, Inc., has been active in education, government, and industry. He served for three years as president of Friends World College, a worldwide, experimental Quaker College, and is the founder and an active member of the Program on Technology, Public Policy, and Human Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Dr. Harman is chairman of the Program Committee of the Board of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and a member of the Board of the Carter Center of Emory University. Dr. Harman served as the Deputy Secretary of Commerce of the United States in 1977 and 1978. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sidney Harman"

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