You could work for any manufacturer, past or present...

@artemus_5

Wow!! Talk about feeling out of place

Please don’t make this weird. ;-)

We just talk mostly about hardware on this forum, so if you think of a car forum, I’d love to work for Ferrari in the early days. That’s why we got here.

If you want to talk bands you’d like to have toured with, that makes a great topic for a new forum in the Music section.

@audioguy85

Honestly I don’t know much about Tannoy, except that it is "venerable" and British.

Help me out, when and why would you choose them?

Candidate for the greatest Darwin Award of all time:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/02/22/daredevil-mad-mike-hughes-reported-dead-in-rocket-crash-near-...

Most Darwin Awards were fake, I know, but this guy... had previously gone up and ended up in a neck brace. His entire reason for the rocket was to prove the earth was flat.

Very nice, @asvjerry

Personally, if I had the time and space though, I'd take a large cnc mill over any additive print capabilities on a small bed. Enough to carve entire speaker panels.

I think for me, I would pick a manufacturer who is doing cool and innovative things. I don't mean they do great in the market, but that something unique is happening.

So, anyone with their own CNC machines, like Magico or YG would probably interest me. Early days of theater sound, so JBL and Altec Lansing.

Working with Snell and his curved baffled in the A models. Genesis with the line arrays.  Apogee making giant magnets and ribbons.  Not a maker, but I wish I had actually gotten a degree at GA Tech and been able to do graduate studies with Dr. Leach. Maybe Jensen transformers, and whoever was making the earliest op amps in tin cans.

Best,

E

Nelson Pass is okay! Your original thread didn't mention a age restriction.
"Past or present" I believe it reads.

It was a joke. :)

Guys, I’m sorry, Nelson Pass is too young to be on these lists.

Best,

E

I am thinking the early days of JM Lab/Focal too would be good. Not necessarily as a fan of the speakers, but living in a French town with old school cabinet making down the road from the driver manufacturing.

For me it would be Altec or JBL. Would love to be there in the early days of theater sound. :)