American Audio


Even if audio is a global thing, good ’ole USA is still there:

PS Audio -not terribly expensive, excellent-sounding gear
Benchmark, Sanders -innovative amps, no nose-bleed prices
Cables/cords -Transparent, High Fidelity, Synergistics, Cardas, Kimber, Audioquest. More brands than anywhere on Earth.
Klipsch, JBL -still after 75 years, horns no longer ’sound’ like horns
Emerald Physics/Spatial -new takes on horn/waveguides. Like Klipsch, all-American incl parts
Vandersteen, Joseph, Ryan -the cone speaker keeps getting better
Component/speaker stands -Symposium, Critical Mass, Star Sound
ASC -room acoustics

It’s a confusing world of ear-buds, computer & car audio. And tech-general like the internet. But quality 2-chan audio is around and it’s more than I thought....

jonnie22

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@audioguy85 1+ for our friends across the pond!

My UK gear manufacturers:
Chord
Cambridge Audio
@dabel Thanks. Now that I have made that list I realize that I have a disease. I don’t feel so good now. I better go listen to some music…
ECM jazz via Roon/Qobuz. Thanks. This is our little support group! I am giving my Raven a rest and using my PrimaLuna (not American) Dialogue Premium HP with the stock EL34s to give it a workout. I am excited because I pulled the trigger and got 8 KT150s for it and am anticipating the advertised big difference (I hope). They are on the way. This is on my Magico A3/Aperion SuperTweeter/REL T9i system. 
My American gear manufacturers:
Magico
Magnepan
Verastarr/Mike Powell
Zu Audio
Shunyata Research
Synergistic Research
Raven Audio
RCA (tubes)
Pass Labs
First Watt
VPI Industries
Wayne’s Audio
Sweet Vinyl
PS Audio
Benchmark Media Systems
AudioQuest
Analysis Plus
Cardas
Kimber Kable
Schiit Audio
Dan Clark Audio
Orchard Audio
Sonore/Small Green Computer
Roon Labs
Intel (NUC)
Uptone Audio
Sonos
Campfire Audio
Aperion Audio
Pangea
Emotiva
Microsoft
Apple
Crate&Barrel (listening seating)
Howie’s Hockey Tape (Hockey Pucks)
The Vibrapod Company
Revelation Audio Labs


@tunehead 1+ on our friends to the North!

My Canadian gear:

Bryston (big 28B3 monoblocks for my Maggies) and BP-17 cubed preamp (for sale <shameless plug>)
Simaudio Moon (one of my phone preamps and practically a collectors item: 310LP with 320S outboard power supply connected with a Revelation Audio Lab power umbilical).
Isoacoustics
Mye Sound (maker of Mye Stands for Magnepans)