Master List of Speaker Companies

[sweetchaos]

This would be so interesting as a historical research project. There's no good, comprehensive source or book available so far.

Can you elaborate?

 

[pozz]

Can you elaborate?

I don't know of any current reliable book or other resource that examines the evolution of both the engineering and the hifi market at the same time, with two exceptions.

The first is this timeline from AES: http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

The second and best example I know of is Frederick Vinton Hunt's Electroacoustics from 1954. It's a rare book whose 90-page introduction examines the whole of the development of electrical transduction from the invention of long-distance communication using electricity (telegraphy) to the microphone and speaker. All of this with exceptional understanding and presentation of the underlying principles of development. There are a few pages about the development of hifi but they aren't written with the sort of detail that we would want, as in extensive looks at companies, models, their specs and so on.

The issue as I see it is that we don't know our own past with any sort of clarity. I think that affects everyone in the industry, us included, with a deep lack of perspective. Hunt himself started his book by pointing out that he spent much of his time doing historical research in the patent office because there was very little other written material he could work with. I could imagine us repeating that work with similar resources like old websites, manuals, advertising catalogues and more patent hunts since, like him, we have nowhere else to look.

 

[tomtoo]

Have another one.
Voxativ
https://voxativ.berlin/
Not your everyday food.

 

[nm4711]

Have another one.
Voxativ
https://voxativ.berlin/
Not your everyday food.

Than I have to throw Lowther in too.
You can buy prebuild speakers here.

 

[Deleted member 9286]

Fyne Audio

 

[Zoomer]

Monitor Audio

 

[tomtoo]

Need more French.
Triangel

 

[tomtoo]

Shouldnt we add chassis manufakturs?

 

[Fluffy]

Yep, this market is utterly saturated. How are all of these companies still in business?

 

[tomtoo]

Yep, this market is utterly saturated. How are all of these companies still in business?

I have that feeling we are far from complete.

 

[tomtoo]

Braun is also building speakers again.

 

[MZKM]

Home Theater Direct (HTD), Texas:
https://www.htd.com/
Chane Music & Cinema (Chane), Florida:
https://www.chanemusiccinema.com/
PowerSoundAudio (PSA), Ohio (owned by the V in SVS):
https://www.powersoundaudio.com/
Micca, USA (owned by Highland Technologies, Hong Kong; have a field day if you wanna call that China):
http://www.miccatron.com/
Vivid Audio, UK:
https://vividaudio.com/

You can also make a geographical graph in Sheets; stealing your data:

 

[Karu]

Estelon http://estelon.com/

 

[Pluto]

Harbeth in the UK, founded 1977

 

[Billy Budapest]

I’m not sure this task is even possible. We are probably talking thousands of companies. In the UK, there have to be a few hundred. In the US, I can’t even guess.

 

[tomtoo]

Braun is also building speakers again.

I’m not sure this task is even possible. We are probably talking thousands of companies. In the UK, there have to be a few hundred. In the US, I can’t even guess.

Don't forgett china.
But hey it's fun. And hopefully a good cure for @sweetchaos's boring sickness ; )

 

[fredoamigo]

Need more French.
Triangel

http://www.laudiodefrance.fr/repertoire-des-marques-francaises/



Danish loudspeaker production is really impressive considering that it's a country of only 5 million people ... in terms of population, I think it's the largest loudspeaker manufacturer in the world.

 

[Rja4000]

Need more French.
Triangel

Triangle, yes

 

[Rja4000]

Nexo, LAcoustics (more pro audio, but passive speakers still)
Celestion ?
Naim ?
KRK
Philips?

 

[tomtoo]

If we would add chassie manufakturer then
Audax for shure.