Lol, so conspiratorial! The CEO is Dan Roemer who is also the lead loudspeaker engineer. He leads a group that owns their own factories in China. The factories are not Chinese-owned but are just based in China. They basically have vertical control over their own supply chain which is one of the reasons why they can sell loudspeakers with such high build quality for a relatively low price. They design and manufacture their own drivers and almost every other component. They do a lot of work for others too, they were primarily a B2B business that did ODM and OEM work for other audio manufacturers and are responsible for some well-known products that you would have heard of. I don't want to say what, exactly, because they are under a contractual obligation not to take credit for some of the work that they do, but once you learn the design signatures, you know they have some involvement (probably the entire design and manufacturing). The reason why you probably don't know much about them is that Perlisten is basically their first venture business-to-consumer venture rather than doing work for other businesses. Their goal with Perlisten is to make the kind of stuff they would want to own themselves, so they are making the best products that they know how without being constrained by design goals from other businesses' product objectives.
They are pretty transparent, and if there is anything you want to know specifically, just send them an email to ask them. Also related to transparency, what other loudspeaker manufacturer is posting CTA-2034 spin graphs of every single product they own on their own product pages? Who else is going after the most strenuous THX certification? And they aren't afraid of third-party verification either- my own measurements have consistently been a very close match to their own posted measurements.
