RE: Defunct Audio Companies

Posted by PAR on October 2, 2015 at 19:52:11

In Reply to: Defunct Audio Companies posted by Trout Mask Replica on October 2, 2015 at 14:19:53:

Thanks for posting this. I was surprised at how comprehensive the author has been (even though I haven't yet finished reading it). Yes there may be missing companies but he even lists pretty obscure British companies which I expected to be of parochial interest only to us on this side of the pond. I am sure, however, that there are also multitudes of unrecorded defunct audio equipment producers especially from countries outside of N. America or Europe.

Of course much of what is recorded is to be expected given the one man band/cottage industry nature of many manufacturers. It is often really a record of retirement or death rather than of lack of success.

Often the original company may have gone but its successors carry on with the brand or product line and its developments, a normal aspect of capitalism where companies are traded.

It is also a reminder that the industry is, in part, led by fashion.

Mostly it underlines the fact that the only reliable thing in life is change.

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Topic - Defunct Audio Companies - Trout Mask Replica 14:19:53 10/02/15 (23)

Counterpoint and Sound Valves - Hyfi 09:40:58 10/12/15 (1)

Also missing Clearfield Speakers (early VRS) - Hyfi 10:04:59 10/12/15 (0)

Audio Concepts - Brian H P 10:33:32 10/05/15 (3)

RE: Audio Concepts - Mick Wolfe 15:41:12 10/05/15 (2)

RE: Audio Concepts - BillH 07:55:32 10/06/15 (1)

RE: Audio Concepts - Mick Wolfe 08:53:31 10/06/15 (0)

RE: Defunct Audio Companies, soundcraftsman - Audioquest4life 05:19:38 10/04/15 (0)

B&K is missing. - MannyE 20:52:12 10/03/15 (0)

If those companies are defunct... - Mr. Dick Hertz 10:10:18 10/03/15 (1)

RE: If those companies are defunct... - BillH 11:28:23 10/04/15 (0)

Xtreme AV and Fulton and TG Audio come to mind, dunno if they're on that list. Nt - geoffkait 08:32:05 10/03/15 (0)

guess we need a list of the funct ones? - mhardy6647 06:15:20 10/03/15 (0)

RE: Defunct Audio Companies - Bodhi 20:40:55 10/02/15 (0)

RE: Defunct Audio Companies - PAR 19:52:11 10/02/15 (0)

Dunlavey? nt - slapshot 17:33:14 10/02/15 (0)

no ADS? - mbnx01 16:54:23 10/02/15 (5)

RE: no Nobis or Signature Technolgies either - Jeff Starr 11:18:34 10/03/15 (0)

They missed Snell too. (nt) - reelsmith. 08:40:37 10/03/15 (1)

Spica's gone too AFAIK. nt - Rick W 12:45:55 10/03/15 (0)

And no New York Audio Labs (NYAL) (nt) - Dave Pogue 07:53:52 10/03/15 (0)

Bigger yet, Soundesign, or are they alive? nt - Byrd69 18:41:42 10/02/15 (0)

RE: Defunct Audio Companies - Poinzy 16:09:45 10/02/15 (0)

RE: Defunct Audio Companies - Cameraman 15:04:12 10/02/15 (0)

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