How many brands use own drivers?

@cleeds :
I am disturbed that I am the only one here who speaks fluent gibberish! :D

Sorry, what I meant to say is that Bose does the business task of discovering what consumers besides me will pay for very very well, and it results in table top radios that cost hundreds of dollars. To those who shell out the money, clearly they are getting equal or better value for their cash.


At the same time, I can't imagine a table top radio being worth more than $40

Bose is a fabulous example of an in-house driver as well as incredibly tight alignment with marketting and consumers.

They achieve the magical goal of being extremely inexpensive to produce while giving consumers enough value to merit ridiculous prices for a kitchen radio.

BTW, I make no quality statement about who uses in-house drivers and who does not.
From the manufacturer, in house drivers is a HUGE cost savings, and removes your product from being perceived as a pure commodity. However, that doesn't mean your product is any better or worse than others, generally.

Gryphon and Wilson audio for instance make fabulous use of mostly off the shelf drivers.

Monitor AudioYamahaTechnicsJBL

Magico is iffy. While the cone materials are custom, they rely on Seas and Scanspeak to make them, and the motors are based on existing units.
I'd call them more "extreme custom" than in-house drivers.

A more average custom driver is what Wilson may order. Off the shelf driver with custom parameters.