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04-26-2004, 10:29 AM
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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?
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04-26-2004, 10:36 AM
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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.
"One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work--supposing you're trying to find out how a cat works--you take that cat apart to see how it works, what you've got in your hands is a non-working cat." -- Douglas Adams
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04-26-2004, 10:47 AM
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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.
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04-26-2004, 10:53 AM
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MAGNEPAN.....AMERICAN MADE!! 
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MAGGIE MAGIC!!
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04-26-2004, 11:13 AM
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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).
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04-26-2004, 06:01 PM
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Theil, Infinity, Jbl, McIntosh, Martin-Logan, Boston, Phase Tech all have part made overseas in some of there product (mainly cabients)
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04-26-2004, 06:09 PM
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04-26-2004, 07:15 PM
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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.
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04-26-2004, 09:06 PM
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Why would you want american made speakers when everyone knows "CANADA MAKES THE BEST SPEAKERS IN THE WORLD" |
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04-26-2004, 10:06 PM
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Meadowlark Audio makes some excellent speakers in western New York state.
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