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Notable very small loudspeaker companies (other than Tekton!)
Let's give a shout-out to those very small speaker companies that make excellent products. I'm thinking of true one-man operations (owner-designer-maker) as well as very small ones (owner-designer + a very few employees).
My nominees: Ryan, Prana, Philharmonic, Fritz, Watkins, Vaughn, Chapman, even Daedalus, Salk, Selah.
Who else belongs in this list?
How do they manage to compete with the "big boys", in quality if not in quantity?
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Speaker Art. Bob Gross is an incredible designer, however he was lousy at marketing his speakers. The Super Clef competes with speakers costing multiples of the paultry $1300 he charged for them and his Proklain ll while not the most attractive speaker is one of the top two-way standmount speakers ever made regardless of price. It’s a shame that he is retired from the business. |
The OP already mentioned Vaughn Loudspeakers,but I would like to add that I’ve been recently looking at a couple of his designs and talking to him about a possible custom built speaker that uses the Dukane plasma tweeter’s that he rebuilds and modify’s the pwr supplies.I mainly want something similar to his signature speaker but I don’t want any drivers on the back of the speaker that operate as bipolar’s. Anyhow he has recently retired from his main gig of owning and managing a flooring business in California and he’s moving back to his home state and going to concentrate his time to building speakers full time. He’s just a super passionate fellow and just a true gentlemen to deal with and he has some new ideas going fwd. https://www.vaughnloudspeakers.com If any member would like his his current contact info just pm me,I don’t believe he has updated his website yet. Enjoy, Kenny. |
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