American Made Speakers

I justed wanted to get an idea of what American-made speakers are out there on the market. I only know of SVS but what are the others?

That is difficult to say without some caveats in these days of Globalization.

Do you mean American Made with American Parts (SVS uses Canadian Made Plate Amps), American Assembled with all Imported parts, American Designed with parts and Assembly outsourced, etc etc. You see what I mean.

What Paul said—it is pretty hard to know where each component is sourced. Plus the sourcing often varies from run to run.

ACI has a reputation of being an American-made company. I know for sure that their very excellent cabinetwork is done in the US—except for the ELT system. I have no direct knowledge of where they source their components.

There are plenty of US-based, custom speaker companies—many of them one or two man shows. Once again it is difficult to know where they source their components.

MAGNEPAN.....AMERICAN MADE!!

Vandersteen, Thiel, some Infinity, some JBL, McIntosh, M&K, Merlin, Martin-Logan, Boston Acoustics, Phase Technology among others. That said, most good drivers come from Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway).

Theil, Infinity, Jbl, McIntosh, Martin-Logan, Boston, Phase Tech all have part made overseas in some of there product (mainly cabients)

Joseph Audio.

GR Research

Some Boston speakers are made overseas. Same goes for some NHTs. Polks are made in Mexico, and same with some JBL. Although you would be surprised that some Pioneer speakers are designed and build in the US.

Why would you want american made speakers when everyone knows "CANADA MAKES THE BEST SPEAKERS IN THE WORLD"

Meadowlark Audio makes some excellent speakers in western New York state.

For myself I plan to buy some comercial JBL drivers and crossovers and build a custom enclosure for them. This is all to match a custom center and rears to my american made A-7 Altec Lancing Voice Of The Theater speakers. I will at that point build custom dual JBL 18" subs

Crowded Public Theaters, Who Needs A Stinkin Croweded Public Theater

It's amazing the performance you get with very inexpensive drivers these days from places such as Taiwan. I have a pair of BIC America DV-604 bipolar towers and a pair of DCM CX-27 and a pair of CX-17 monitors and all of the drivers are made in Taiwan and obviously low cost. But they have suprisingly good sound and the DV-604s go deep - below 30Hz.

These inexpensive drivers can sound really good in a properly designed cabinet.

Snell Acoustics are made in America.

I have to correct you on this one, Brett Frank.
Phase Technology is entirely manufactured in their Jacksonville, FL facility. All cabinets, drivers and their components, and crossovers are produced in this facility. They wind their own voice coils and crossover parts in house. I just wanted to clarify this. They are one of the few TRUE American made speaker manufacturers.

As a matter of fact, the Altec Lansing "Voice of the Theater" speakers Dave Moritz speaks about contain drivers manufactured by Phase Tech's parent comapany: United Speaker Systems.

I believe you are also incorrect saying McIntosh has parts made ovrseas. Don't quote me on that, they might these days, but not in the early days.

Wow,
I live in Jacksonville and didn't even know they were here. Another point for the Super Bowl commitee.

Cabinet and crossover design are critical. In the 80's, John Dunlavy had a company called Duntech (in Australia) that made two very high quality wall mounted speakers (the PCL3 and PCL5) that Bert Whyte raved about in Audio magazine. These used the Audax TW010E1 which costs around $6. Driver cost doesn't always equate finished product goodness (or lack thereof).

Well, aren't most of the Klipsch speakers made in Arkansas? I'm pretty sure their reference speakers are are still made there. (Well, ASSEMBLED in AR. might be a better way to put it)

I believe that Legacy speakers are made/assembled in the USA. http://www.legacy-audio.com

I think the only Klipsch still made in Hope are the Heritage line (probably one guy making every one). The Refs, I believe, are assembled in Mehico.

When I purchsed my Def Tech BP2002's in '97 they were made in U.S. When I bought the CLR 2002 in '02 i was disappointed to see MADE IN CHINA on the box.

For the record; with the exception of the ELT, all ACI cabinets are made in one of three shops within a 40 mile radius of La Crosse. Crossovers are built here in La Crosse from U.S. and European parts. Subwoofer amps are manufactured for us here in the U.S. Subwoofer drivers are manufactured in California, with most of the other drivers being Scandinavian. All final assembly, testing, and packaging is done here in La Crosse.

FWIW: In my experience, there are many quality vendors and suppliers around the globe. Point of origin doesn't necessarily indicate quality or lack of.

Have a great day!

Where are the resistors, transistors, power supplies and wires sourced from? What about the screws?

;-)

Well said.

Dunlavy speakers were made here in colorado springs. I dont know if they were 100% U.S. built.

VMPS speakers are 95% made in the U.S. according to the designer/owner/builder Brian Cheney.
A few parts are imported because that's the only place to get them, but the rest is U.S.
The only exception I know of is the RM30 speaker, which has the cabinet made overseas.
Our VMPS RM2 speakers were made right here in the U.S., cabinet included. And the sound quality
is simply world-class, and for a price that makes the cost of most other "high-end" speakers
laughable by comparison. VMPS is the SVS of main speakers, IMO, superb quality and performance
for a fantastic price. This applies to their ribbon stand mounted monitors all the way up to their
large ribbon floorstanding models. All of which share the same basic sonic character and quality.

Check the official web site as well as the forum below for more details.

http://www.vmpsaudio.com/

http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/v...ddb50aa0fd01e7

There is Ohm Acoustics, an American made speaker company that while not that well known makes some impressive products!

ohmacoustics.com

Shawn C: Those Legacy Helix speakers look awfully cool.

You can see them at the link below.


http://www.legacy-audio.com/2003/helix.html

talking to some speaker reps (one of them a manufacturer) the parts are not entirely available from the US (pole pieces are no longer made in the US as well as some other small parts) but truthfully unless your concerned about helping the US worker it doesn't make a better quality speaker

I have Ascend Acoustics speakers and they have a plaque on the rear of the speaker which says, "Designed, engineered, and manufactured in the U.S.A." As for where the components originate, I couldn't say.

A lot of Infinity speakers are made in Mexico.

I just bought Klipsch Reference line speakers so I have the boxes still siting in front of me. The only thing I could find on the boxes was, Manufactured in Hope, AR. Coporate office in indianapolis, IN.
Looked on the speakers themselves, couldnt find anything and also found nothing in the manuel.
You sure they are made in Mexico??