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Audio hardware that doesn't cross country borders

HA is international. Hi-Fi equipment often isn't.

Equipment recommendations which would receive unanimous agreement in one country can receive shrugs of incomprehension in another.

e.g. in my recent thread...
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=88772
...I found that these beloved American loudspeakers (and all from that manufacturer) are very rare in Europe.

It seems to me that loudspeakers travel least. Maybe because of size! In each country, it's mostly local manufacturers that have the greatest share of the sector of the market above junk. So in the UK, it's mostly Mission, B&W, etc.

Some other components seems to travel more widely, but even then, what's judged as wonderful in one country is often unknown in another.


This has got me wondering: given that some of this stuff does sound different (speakers and cartridges certainly), is one country getting better sound than another for a given price? Or is each country's main loudspeaker manufacturers really doing almost the same thing (behind the marketing!)?

Cheers,
David.

Audio hardware that doesn't cross country borders

Reply #1 –
At least when talking about speakers i don´t know who ever heard about Nubert outside Germany. They build all kind of speakers from low-budget to High-End for fair prices and do solid engineering. http://www.nubert.de/
With speakers i even wonder if there are many local manufacturers no one ever heard of outside their hometown. Here for example we have an engineer working as "Lautsprechermanufaktur" that builds wonderfull custom designs and even chassis on demand together with chassis manufacturers since more than 25 years.


Edit: Realized in that moment they have a homepage  http://www.lautsprecher-manufaktur.de
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Audio hardware that doesn't cross country borders

Reply #2 –
Quote from: 2Bdecided on
HA is international. Hi-Fi equipment often isn't.
[...]
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=88772
...I found that these beloved American loudspeakers (and all from that manufacturer) are very rare in Europe.


I live in southern Italy and my longer lasting love affair is the one with my Infinity RS2001 speakers, since may 1990! ;-)
They have been refoamed once, in 2001.
... I live by long distance.

Audio hardware that doesn't cross country borders

Reply #3 –
Wombat was quicker, I also wanted to mention the Nubert speakers

Audio hardware that doesn't cross country borders

Reply #4 –
Well, I know about Audio Epilog, handmade speakers Made in Croatia. I've never heard them, though, but I understand that they are quite good. I don't know if they are known worldwide, I guess not, as I haven't really came across any mention of them on various webpages.
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Audio hardware that doesn't cross country borders

Reply #5 –
They look very cool - but putting their trade-mark metal bars so close to those scan-speak drivers...
http://www.audioepilog.hr/cocoa.html#
...is criminal! (IMO!). Or maybe it's a clever idea. I have a feeling it isn't.

But it's amazing what's out there. This seems to confirm my suspicions that it's speakers where this national trend is strongest.

Cheers,
David.

Audio hardware that doesn't cross country borders

Reply #6 –
Quote from: 2Bdecided on
They look very cool - but putting their trade-mark metal bars so close to those scan-speak drivers...
http://www.audioepilog.hr/cocoa.html#
...is criminal! (IMO!). Or maybe it's a clever idea. I have a feeling it isn't.

But it's amazing what's out there. This seems to confirm my suspicions that it's speakers where this national trend is strongest.

Cheers,
David.


And yet they have their website in multiple languages so appear to be marketing at least to Europe.

As well as size, tariff and tax issues may tip the balance on whether various items travel well between  countries.

Speaker in particular are an item that (beyond commodity level) you ought to  audition before buying, so there's an effort level to get them placed in stores whereas a lot of electronics you could get your foot in the door in a new country with mail order outlets.