an equipment poll

I agree that the over-simplified methodology of this survey is highly flawed, but I'll give it a shot.

Many of the following companies are long since out of existence (in a couple of cases, VERY long since), but given that Audiogon is a place for buying and selling used equipment it seems reasonable to include them:

Acoustat - 5
Antique Sound Lab - 4
Audio Research - 9
B&W - 7
Carver - 4
Classe - 8
Grace - 7
Grado - 7
Infinity - 6
Magnepan - 8
Marantz (the original company, under Saul) - 8
Mark Levinson Audio Systems (the original company, pre-Madrigal) - 8
Paxthon - 5
Pentagram - 6
Radio Engineering Laboratories - 10
Rotel - 4
SOTA - 7
Stax - 8
Tandberg (top-end cassette decks) - 9
Tandberg (other) - 5
Thiel - 5
Threshold - 6

Regards,
-- Al

I agree with Stevecham also but I'm bored right now so what the hell.
As stated my list will only contain manufacturers whose equipment I have owned. It must also be stated that I am a bit of a cheapskate so the perceived value is also figured into my rating. That may not be the OP's intention but it is impossible for me to remove that factor from my opinion.
Acoustic Energy - 7
Analysis Plus - 5
Anthem - 5
Arcam - 8
Audioquest - 9
Bel Canto - 9
Denon - 6
Eminent Technology - 3
James Loudspeakers - 8
Linn - 9
Marantz - 5
Meadowlark Audio - 9
Mirage - 5
Musical Fidelity - 4
Portal Audio - 9
Quad - 8
Paradigm - 4
PSB - 6
Resolution Audio - 10
Revel - 10
Roksan - 3
Silverline Audio - 8
Sony - 7
Totem - 8
Thiel - 8
Vandersteen - 9
OK, now I'm bored with this exercise as well. Think I'll put on some music.

a few additions:

Quad - 9
Sony - 5
James Audio - 7
Pro-ject - 7
Marantz - 5
Musical Fidelity - 5
Linn - 10
Revel - 8

I'm bored too...

Vandersteen 9
Totem 8
Paradigm 5
Classe 8
NAD 7
Logitech 6
Sima 6
Rotel 6
Theta 8
Advent 7
Yamaha 5
Dual 6