Speakers - Made where?

[KEW]

I have been reading the thread about US made amps, and rather than go off topic there, it made sense to start a new thread.
Please post info on any speakers that you know the manufacturing location of.
Here are mine:

Paradigm S-2 v2 - Canada
(does anyone know if Paradigm's less expensive speakers are made off-shore?)
Salk - USA
Focal Solo6 Be - France
Infinity P362 - China
Behringer 2031P - China (label on box, could not find on speakers)
EMP 41B (not labeled)

Subwoofers
Velodyne VMS-8 - China (label on box, could not find on subs)
Martin Logan Dynamo - China (label on box, could not find on subs)
SVS SB12-Plus (not labeled)

I thought the country of manufacture was required by law to be on the product.
I checked my Emotiva UPA-2 and it is not labeled either.

 

[JerryLove]

It's worth noting, especially with large companies (HarmonKardon) that the same make-model may be made in more than one country.

 

[GranteedEV]

EMPs are assembled in China. I Know because I paid import duties >8(

 

[Seth=L]

SVS, made in Ohio.

Emotiva - china

Paradigm - all made in Canada.

Denon - most in China, some in Japan

Rotel - Taiwan

Infinity - used to have assemblies in the US and Mexico, now mostly China.

Pioneer - used to be Malaysia for lower end and Japan for higher end. Now the lower end Pioneers are made in the same place as the lower end Denon's, in China. Their higher end offerings are still made in Japan.

Onkyo - Malaysia and Japan

Integra - Malaysia and Japan

Sony - used to have models made in Japan, now all made in Malaysia. (also, an interesting note - check out the TR-DA5600ES, STR-DA3600ES and STR-DN2010 from Sony. They have a feature I've not seen before on a home theater receiver.)

I could go on, but I'll do so later.

 

[highfigh]

Is 'made' being used to denote 'assembled'? I wouldn't be surprised to find that many companies use cabinets made offshore because is's impossible to make them here for the same price. Look at the ones sold by Parts Express and Madisound- they look great in person and many are less than $100 at retail, each. If the whole job is tracked for time and materials without any consideration for facility/tools/machinery/other costs, the cost to a large speaker company or wholesaler is so low that it's far more economical to buy than to make their own. The same goes for crossovers and drivers- Peerless/Vifa are all made in China now under the name Tymphany.

 

[Swerd]

No matter where a speaker is assembled, the parts can come from other places.

Salk, for example, builds cabinets and assembles everything in the US, but the drivers come from many places: Acoustic Elegance (USA), SEAS (Norway), RAAL (Serbia), Accuton (Germany?), Aurum Cantus (China), LCY (China), Hiquphon (Denmark), Dayton (China).

The various parts for the crossovers probably come from China, Taiwan, and the US. And finally, the spiked feet Salk uses for their cabinets are made locally in Detroit.

It would be hard to find speakers where all the parts are made in the USA.

 

[KEW]

What about Aperion?
Ascent?
Axiom?
AudioEngine?
Harbeth?
NHT?
Quad?
Sonus Faber?
Usher?
Vandersteen?
Vienna Acoustics?

Edit: Cambridge Audio

 

[walter duque]

South Windsor Conneticut.http://www.sourcespeaker.com/

Birthstage of one of my speaker systems I used to own.

 

[pzaur]

Sony - used to have models made in Japan, now all made in Malaysia. (also, an interesting note - check out the TR-DA5600ES, STR-DA3600ES and STR-DN2010 from Sony. They have a feature I've not seen before on a home theater receiver.)

Second zone CAT5e connection? Interesting...

-pat

 

[InTheIndustry]

Phase Technology - USA

Totem - Canada

 

[lsiberian]

siberian speakers are built in Fort Worth, TX, but components come from all over. Most things come from all over anyway.

 

[Seth=L]

What about Aperion?
Ascent?
Axiom?
AudioEngine?
Harbeth?
NHT?
Quad?
Sonus Faber?
Usher?
Vandersteen?
Vienna Acoustics?

Aperion-Not sure
Ascent-Not sure
Axiom-Assembled in USA I believe
AudioEngine-china?
Harbeth-not sure
NHT-Uses variety of manufacturers for drivers (or used to) assembled in USA, used to. With their recent change to ID I'm not sure.
Quad-USA I think
Sonus Faber-Italy
Usher-not sure
Vandersteen-If I'm not mistaken they are entirely made in USA, excellent speakers.
Vienna Acoustics-Italy?
Cambridge Audio-Britain/china

 

[Ares]

PSB

Engineered in Canada

Assembled in China

 

[ski2xblack]

Harbeth - England

 

[GO-NAD!]

Aperion-Not sure
Ascent-Not sure
Axiom-Assembled in USA I believe
AudioEngine-china?
Harbeth-not sure
NHT-Uses variety of manufacturers for drivers (or used to) assembled in USA, used to. With their recent change to ID I'm not sure.
Quad-USA I think
Sonus Faber-Italy
Usher-not sure
Vandersteen-If I'm not mistaken they are entirely made in USA, excellent speakers.
Vienna Acoustics-Italy?
Cambridge Audio-Britain/china

Axioms are designed and built in Ontario. Where they get their drivers and crossover components - I have no idea.

Energy - I assume they are now engineered in the USA, vice Canada, since their aquisition by Klipsch. Nevertheless, assembled in China.

Mordaunt-Short - Designed in the UK, but assembled in China (the lower model lines, at least).

 

[lsiberian]

Axioms are designed and built in Ontario. Where they get their drivers and crossover components - I have no idea.

Energy - I assume they are now engineered in the USA, vice Canada, since their aquisition by Klipsch. Nevertheless, assembled in China.

Mordaunt-Short - Designed in the UK, but assembled in China (the lower model lines, at least).

nearly all drivers come from China. The key is making sure you get a good factory. For example the HiFi RTI tweeters are reference quality, but only 1 out of 3 actually works right.

 

[Gustavo]

My lowly Wharfedale Diamond 10.1 is engineered in England and built in China but I heard that the higher end Wharfedales are made in England.

Regarding the drivers and other components for all their speakers, I have no idea.

 

[The Dali]

Boston Acoustics - China.

Oh, and I love the marketing ploy of the "designed and engineered in USA/Canada/Britain" and then below that, "assembled/made in China". I don't think people are say - "oh! it was designed in USA... made in China, but still - it was designed in the USA!"

Geez.

Most of the stuff that comes out of China was designed in the USA/Canada or ?Europe - just made in China because it is super cheap. Even Apple uses this trick if you check out all their packaging materials.

 

[Patrick Butler]

What about Aperion?
Ascent?
Axiom?
AudioEngine?
Harbeth?
NHT?
Quad?
Sonus Faber?
Usher?
Vandersteen?
Vienna Acoustics?

Edit: Cambridge Audio

Vienna Acoustics are made in Vienna Austria with cabinets produced in Italy, drivers sourced from Northern Europe (not Asia), crossovers in Austria and our clear, XPP cones are cast in Austria.

Best wishes,

Patrick Butler
Vienna Acoustics- North America

 

[arrogancegothim]

What about Aperion?
Ascent?
Axiom?
AudioEngine?
Harbeth?
NHT?
Quad?
Sonus Faber?
Usher?
Vandersteen?
Vienna Acoustics?

Edit: Cambridge Audio

Usher: 100% Made in China with some parts in Taiwan. Their US distributor will love to flower up the story as how they carry a "US version" and how the "US version" is a far better product....but it's all part of a corrupt marketing that the US distributor applies to put massive price hikes at far above what is fair profit.