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?


128x128twoleftears
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.
Another for Reference 3a, I haven't listened to any of their speakers than are less than sublime, especially for the price, the DeCapos are amazing, reproduction of piano, my thing, is about as close to real as you'll get out of a small monitor with a good suporting cast of electronics and subs. 
Very small company.  Various models to choose from. These do what speakers are supposed to do, without any fancy extras that do not make the sound more accurate.   Phase coherent - first order crossovers of the highest quality.   http://nsmt-loudspeakers.com/Model-15

Home page:   https://nsmt-loudspeakers.com/