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
EAD Enlighten Audio Design
ESS Speakers
McCormack
Yankee Audio Speakers
Weber Wire
Fisher, Dynaco, Leak, Pilot and etc.
Garrard, Lenco 
Advent, Phillips, Tandberg, Roberts
Eumig, Akai
Fisher, Sherwood, Scott and Kenwood. These were the first "High End" receivers I saw upon entering Allied Radio store on South Western Ave in Chicago (around 1967). Kenwood is the only one still in business and it looks like they've stopped making Home Audio.