For auld lang syne, ..high-end companies you really liked that are gone....

hilde45   The AR speakers were much a part of the high end history, much like KLH, Advent and others...including early Maggies...1d, etc. 

And Grace has a very good tonearm, the 707.

grace 707 tonearm - Google Search

Thanks to all.  Lots of good names and I remember most.  Even more that I miss are great restaurants from the past in the cities that I lived in and visited.  Most of those were owner/chef operated and fragile when it comes to cash flow, employees and "the times". 

Happy Hollandaise. 

I believe Boston Acoustics had some of that Acoustic Research, KLH, Advent...DNA.

All the additional companies mentioned have merit and thank you for posting.

I am surprised that nobody had mentioned Montgomery Ward and their tube table top AM Clock Radios...  It is likely that some old timers on this site got their start that way.....including me. 
Yes from a Wards table radio to MG-20 etc. a long and worthwhile journey.  

dekay,  My parents had a "Wards" charge account, so our home had washer-dryer, range, lawnmower, mixer, my "3-speed" bike, and many of my early clothes and other things from there.  I am not sure if it was just the local store or passed down from my grandparents, the Wards loyalty.  The first shopping center in Iowa City was/is the "Wardway Plaza"....much of it is still there, but no Wards.  In my youth most towns seemed to have a Wards, a Sears and a J.C. Penny....before the days of K-Mart and the like...which are all gone or nearly gone now as well.  It is simply sad that after GM killed better car companies, like Packard..etc. Americans just filled that gap with Toyota, Datsun, Mercedes, BMW...and many more.  If anti-trust laws had been enforced and politicians had not been bought off, perhaps the best cars in the world would still be made in America?  Packard was called "The Car of Kings", and they were.   The film "Tucker" still didn't go where the truth was about "the big three" and anti-trust laws being ignored. 

I am very pleased that so much of great high-end audio is made in this country.  I wonder if it is because of the high-end still being a niche market..now that most former U.S. brands, like RCA, et.al. are from Taiwan or the like?

 

Yes, I owned the Apt-Holman as long as any high end item.  Mr. Holman has had further success with something called THX

Apt Holman Preamplifier Review (kenrockwell.com)

The Apt-Holman pre-amp and something else Mr. Holman is known for:

Tomlinson Holman - Wikipedia