I have a small list of some brands that I think make great products, who am I missing and who doesn’t deserve there spot?

I think the top ones are Bowsers & Wilkins Klipsch Polk PMC KEF Harman Bang & Olufsen

And some other good ones are JL Sonos Hegel McIntosh PMC Pioneer Paradigm KEF PSB Focal

      • pikpikpik2@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Hardly what most people consider when mentioning b&o. But yes, we have bespoked b&o store where I live. They sound good, but not 800.000kr great. For that sum I’d get a set of r8 arrete and an aavik amp. Even cheaper speakers leave it far behind in terms of sound quality. It’s purely a design feature for people pretending to care about sound quality.

    • ClutchDutch_Artist@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Lol i saw it coming, just as a side note im not an audiophile im actually just looking for speakers for christmas so i tried to seem like an uninformed audiophile

      • Sea-Neck206@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Those brands you mentioned aren’t bad, just not “highest quality“ as you said in the title. Most people would be perfectly happy with B&W, PMC and Kef. Even Klipsch make some good speakers. It was the fact you said highest quality which made it amusing.

        • ClutchDutch_Artist@alien.topOPBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Ohhh i get it, i just see them as well-known brands that make really good speakers. My original categorization had people very upset (b&o top tier, pmc as an other)

  • ruinevil@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Highest quality/value… probably no brand you’ve heard of. PMC and some Harman products are probably the pinnacle of the production pro audio. Rest of that stuff is consumer low to upper middle tier.

  • palaminocamino@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    well…it depends on what you consider a great product. Sonos makes a great soundbar, but I wouldnt use it for a HiFi system, so I dont know what your post is really trying to get at – who makes good stuff within their category, or who make the best stuff?

  • gnostalgick@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Personal favorites include Dynaudio, Harbeth, ProAc, Sonus Faber, and Vandersteen for speakers.

    And Audio Research, Chord, and Pass Labs for electronics.

  • sound-man-rob@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m always surprised by this kind of thinking. Every “brand” of multinational size will have multiple lines to meet the needs of different markets both geographically and economically. Many (including me) love the Sony ES and QS product lines, but they’ve produced some utter garbage too. Most speaker manufacturers are the same- JBL ‘makes’ everything from Bluetooth speakers up to the high-end hifi stuff, it’s different design teams, specifications, and manufacturing facilities.

  • ilfordax@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Boulder, Gryphon, Wilson, Borrensen, Constellation, CH Precision, MBL, MSB, dCs…. And so many more

  • Puzzled-Background-5@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The companies that focus on the science and engineering are the ones that make the highest quality products. The ones that don’t are just selling a dream and an aesthetic.