Obscure companies making excellent speakers?


Found on the forum names of speaker manufacturers unfamiliar to me that supposedly are using new technologies or designs and as a result are making big impressions on fellow goners. Would like to see a list of these young and not so young companies that otherwise fly under the radar because advertisement just too expensive or not viable.
pedrillo

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Tidal Audio

In their home country so far completely absent from audio magazines or tests (their advertisement budget must be inexistent) and thust even less known over here than in Asia or the USA where the distributors do some promotion.

http://www.tidal-audio.de
Hi Pedrillo, I'll have another go. My favorite remains Tidal but here are a few more brands for your next list, worthy of Audiogoners' interest. A wildly varying bunch, but each one will appeal to a different sonics/price/tec-specs/looks preference. I heard one or the other product from most of these at the Munich High End, others directly at the constructor's or distributor's (mind you, not always enough to give detailed descriptions of sonic peculiarities, let alone subtle differences between them)

Admittedly, "obscure" is not a valid description for some of these in their home markets, e.g. Audioplan in Germany, WML in Austria or Davis in France, but they are fairly unknown to the audiophile community at large (sorry guys, some of these do not have websites in English)

Horn Manufaktur (Austria)
http://www.hornmanufaktur.at/en_index.html
Wiener Lautsprecher Manufaktur (Austria)
http://www.wlm-loudspeakers.com/indexengl.html
Floating Systems (Belgium)
http://www.floating-systems.be/home.htm
Waterfall (France)
http://www.waterfallaudio.com/
Venus Acoustics (France)
http://www.venusacoustic.fr/index/index.html
Davis Acoustics (France)
http://www.davis-acoustics.com/gb/enceintes.php
Audioplan (Germany)
http://www.audioplan.eu/03e_products/03e_prod1_ls/03e_prod1_ls.html
Audiaz (Germany)
http://www.audiaz.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=5
Black Forest Audio (Germany)
http://www.blackforestaudio.de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=8
Ikon Akustik (Germany)
http://www.ikonakustik.de/lautsprecher.html
Mythos Audio (Greece)
http://www.mythosaudio.com/results.php?cat_id=15
Rosso Fiorentino (Italy)
http://www.rfspeakers.it/prodotti.htm
Daluso (Netherlands)
http://www.daluso.com/
Two more that deserve to be in the spotlights:

Blumenhofer Acoustics (Germany)
http://www.blumenhofer-acoustics.com/GenuinFS1D.html

Master by Dynamic Solutions (Netherlands)
http://www.dynamic-solutions.nl/luidsprekers.htm