You own a store, you sell 2 brands, which?

PASS LABS FOR ELEC. MAGGIES FOR SPEAKERS

One brand - Yamaha. I'll be able to sell a whole line of stereo equipment as well as musical instruments, motorcycles and jet skis :-)

Jbl and Msb simply because they are end game units.

In a perfect world, Rogue Audio and Sonus faber. In our world dominated by marketing dollars, MP3 and Boom Boom Bass, it would be Sony and JBL. 

Pillium and Dieses. 

I had to chuckle when I read this. We operate a small service shop that also resells some vintage gear. We do however carry a little new audio, and exactly two brands! They are Rega and Fyne Audio. They have both been a great fill for those who either don’t want either a vintage, amp, or speakers, or just want all new. Very pleased to offer both.

@millercarbon  Another perpetually and permanently apoplectic poster among us.

Lighten-up, Francis.

Wilson Audio & PASS Labs. 

Well not so much of a thought experiment.  Once Linn/Naim dealers dotted most western cities around the globe.  Quite a few still exist.  Between the two they sell every component known to the contemporary Audiophile.

One brand - Yamaha.

That's a really interesting choice, especially if I can sell the pro line too. :)

Oh, those vintage pro amps! :)

If we’re doing generic, cigarettes and whiskey.  Old men need only three things to be happy - whiskey, cigarettes, and women.  Most places, you can’t sell women.

Seems like about 20% of the posters only read the headline but not the OP.

The catch is you can have exactly 2 brands. One of electronics one of speakers.

Classe (When they were still made in Canada)
Apogee 

Lafayette & Ohm Walsh.

Especially the Lafayette KT-550 tube power amp.  Had these in college in my dorm room.  Everyone hung out there!  Still have the Lafayette KT-550 but converted the tube compliment to a current tube.  Everything else is stock.  It is a beast of a stereo amp and still sounds better than most tube amps manufactured today!

Happy Listening.

Even though, for speakers, my personal preference is electrostatics and ribbons, from a recognition and marketing stand point, reliability and a broad range of price and performance choices, would be Vandersteen. For electronics, for all the same reasons plus having a full gamete of analogue and digital components, would be either Linn or Rega.....Jim

McIntosh and Klipsch

Classe and B&W

Naim Audio,  Totem Acoustic 

N

KEF and Rega, although you need cables. OK van den Hul.

This is just a “what if” question.
yet, some say it won’t work, etc, well obviously it won’t, it’s just a question.

    Some people need to relax, and just go with it, and not get so bent or be too serious.


   Would still like another brand to choose from. :)
should have gone for 3 brands,..
😀
    

Harbeth and Pass.  Easy.  

Magnepan/Audio Research

Remember the old David Beatty quote: "Buy the best and cry once."

Luxman and either Magnepan or Vandersteen.

Esoteric & Luxman

Klipsch as that would take care of the Sheeple that want the current rage of vintage, horns, high efficiency and ugly boxes.

Pioneer- a brand with a strong history and affordable for the masses

If this was the UK in the 1980s it should have been Sony and Technics but it had to be Linn and Naim because it was hopeless to blow against the wind.

Today it would be NAD and Dali.

Virtually all budgets and requirements could be catered to and it would be next to impossible to get a bad result.

Even the £700 NAD C588 turntable is probably better than what’s currently being used by 99% of the population.

Dali, as far as I know, don’t make a truly bad loudspeaker.

In any case I’d simply refuse to sell anything I didn’t personally like or believe in.

@ MC....(belated post, been Away...everyone lucky....)

...it Was 4 years....8 months of aftershocks....

No particular expectations of stopping.
Building up for a Big One?

Stand By. 😏

For people who aren't rich Polk and Sony.They both make great stuff and you still have money to take the wife out.

Speakers Nola and Living Voice

Bose & Sony was a good pick Duder.   everyone knows the line.  It's people picking the likes of Audio Note.   2000 people looking to buy a 7 k. audio system  would walk right past the Store .  It's like Tidal HiFi  I've asked a lot of
people all ages about it .  No one knows what it is  except people reading audiogon 
 How many read it 

Too bad the OP didn’t specify a timeframe.

Storefront 25 years ago would probably be McIntosh and B&W.

Good luck to anyone trying to run a store today.

+4 Yamaha 
My NS 1000's were pretty awesome...would like to hear the NS 5000's

+4 Yamaha 
My NS 1000's were pretty awesome...would like to hear the NS 5000's
Otherwise,  Wilson Benesch & Ypsilon

Too bad the OP didn’t specify a timeframe.

I did! I said from any point in history. :)

Stores which has been around for a long time ,usually selling most popular brands from boom boxes to hi-fi and hi-end.That is the way to attrack and involve people in audio for lifetime

Rega and Gas

Dynaco & Spica

Yamaha & Polk

Sansui Amplifiers S.S. and Berning ZOTL tube technology....😊😁

I second Macintosh and ADS. Could be great! 

Marantz and Ohm

Rega-Affordable
TAD-Extreme

OK, I forgot a few things.  I am going to redo my 2 brands.

CAT electronics, and everything from Vandersteen, including their amps.

I would go broke, but that's what I'd want to sell. :)

In a private e-mail some one asked me to keep up the positive vibe and now I'm angry. 

:-)

Sonus faber.
McIntosh.

Sonus Faber and McIntosh

JBL/JBL Synthesis & Yamaha....they both pretty much sell everything...and as far as Home Audio you have Home Audio and Home theater from budget to to uber high end....they both are audio Gods! Whether you like them or not...

I guess we're just listing the brands we like. I'll have a go but put it across different subcategories:

NA brands: Snell, Simaudio
UK brands: ATC, Epos (just for the ES14 -- one of the best speakers ever made)
Europe: Diapason, Unison Research