For auld lang syne, ..high-end companies you really liked that are gone....


’tis that time of year. Another year nearly gone and a new one full of land mines ahead...etc. I thought I would ask, what companies are now gone that were a part of you audio history? Mine would be:

Thiel,
Nakamichi (when they were doing some high end stuff, N. Pass)
Sony....same thing, when they were doing some high end, esp. early CD players
Classe """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
California Audio Labs
Straightwire
Advent
Dahlquist

And please add to this list. Now some of these I mentioned do exist, but are not now really two-channel/stereo "high-end"

Have a good and safe New Year holiday.


whatjd
Kyocera - Made good audio products in the 90s but pulled an "Oppo" and focused on business products.
Thanks to all.  Lots of good names and I remember most.  Even more that I miss are great restaurants from the past in the cities that I lived in and visited.  Most of those were owner/chef operated and fragile when it comes to cash flow, employees and "the times". 

Happy Hollandaise. 
Anyone remember the small PSE monoblocks with wood sidechecks?  I think Johnny used to sell them a million years ago.