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

’tis that time of year. Another year nearly gone and a new one full of land mines ahead...etc. I thought I would ask, what companies are now gone that were a part of you audio history? Mine would be:

Thiel,
Nakamichi (when they were doing some high end stuff, N. Pass)
Sony....same thing, when they were doing some high end, esp. early CD players
Classe """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
California Audio Labs
Straightwire
Advent
Dahlquist

And please add to this list. Now some of these I mentioned do exist, but are not now really two-channel/stereo "high-end"

Have a good and safe New Year holiday.


whatjd
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dekay
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Yes, Wards/JC Penny/Sears as well.

I recall my mother buying some double knee jeans from one of them in the early/mid 60's and adding/sewing a 3rd knee patch to the outside.

I was tough on clothes, and it's no mystery as to why both of my knees are toast.

DeKay
dorkwad
548 posts
 
VMPS speakers, Tube Research Labs, Grace arms and cartridges, Dayton-Wright speakers, Dahlquist speakers, Design Acoustics speakers, Ariston turntables, Beveridge speakers, Maplenoll TT/arms...I owned a few of these at different times and still have the first 3 items mentioned.

Bob
jchizek
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“Chizek” - they were stellar.
tgr
5 posts
 
Spica - I owned a pair of TC-50s and later upgraded to Angelus'.  Great mid-range, soundstaging, and realistic reproduction of timbre.  Traded them in for B&W 804Ns, as my then-wife hated the form factor.  No surprise, we later divorced.

I'll add my name to the California Audio Labs.  
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asvjerry
4,608 posts
 
@dweller ....+1 Kyocera....Apogee...and the original Ohm Walsh' of course....

I wonder what would Rabco would be up to, if they'd survived....still have an SL-8.....

Merry Post-New Year...
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