Car Audio Mergers....who owns who?

[BreakingBad]

doesnt DEI own stinger and viper also?

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Eclipse is owned by three people, Fujitsu, Toyota, and someone else... Fujitsu being primary share holder.

nG

 

[mrogowski 5,000+ posts]

The Klipsch Group recently took over Audio Products International (API)

API = Energy, Sound Dynamics and Mirage

Energy is moving into the car audio world (finally)

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

doesnt DEI own stinger and viper also?

Stinger is owned by AAMP along with several other brands.

But yes, Directed owns Viper along with several others not listed.

That list wasn't all inclusive. As another example Maxxsonics also owns Autotek and MB Quart.

Actually just realized tru's post was incorrect there. Rockford sold MB Quart to Maxxsonics a year or so ago.

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

Last I heard about Sirius/XM they were waiting on FCC to approve. I do know that the new pricing is set, as they I saw it when I worked at bbuy.

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

The Anaba Group*
* MA Audio

* Cliff Designs

* Visonik

* Ultra Linear

* Rockbox*

Mitek

* MTX Audio

* Xtant Technologies

* Coustic Car Audio

* StreetWires

* Magnum

Rockford Corporation

* Rockford Fosgate

* MB Quart

* Lightning Audio

* Q-Logic

Directed Electronics, Incorporated/D.E.I.

* Orion

* Precision Power

* Directed Audio

* a/d/s

* xtreme

Maxxsonics

* HiFonics

* Crunch

Harman International

* Infinity

* JBL

Sound Around

* Pyramid

* Lanzar

* Legacy

* Pyle

Power Acoustik

* Power Acoustik

* Soundstream

* SPL

* Kole Audio*

Sony Corporation

* Sony Xplod

* Aiwa

Matsushita Electric

* Panasonic

* JVC

Audiovox Corporation - worth noting that Toshiba owns part of Audiovox.

* Jensen

* Audiovox

* Road Gear*

* Stinger

Audiobahn

* Audiobahn

* Alphasonik

* Digital Audio*

* Swiss Audio

might wana redo your list with some correct stuff.

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

boston owns mcintosh now i believe...

I thought Clarion did?? Well they did until Clarion sold them in '03.

Actually Boston is under the same umbrella. D & M Holdings. McInstosh, Denon, Marantz, Boston Accoustics are all under the same umbrella. Pretty good company if you ask me.

 

[MoneyMike 10+ year member]

The Canadian company DEI bought was AstroStart. XpressKits was their most recent take over. If you can't beat 'em= buy'em

Yeah that was it..I was talking to a rep the other day and I just forgot the name

 

[Pyro_By_Nature 5,000+ posts]

I am assuming sense resonant engineering owns the 3, then the name RE and Resonant Engineering do not mean the same thing. I thought RE audio was Resonant Engineering Audio, I thought the RE was short as in- DD and Digital Designs

Do you not know how to read?

RE = resonant engineering, resonant engineering = RE, k? k.

US Amps is now the majority stock holder for RE, so basically what they say goes.This is kinda old news.

Try not to over complicate things that do not need to be over complicated.

 

[mdillon 10+ year member]

i was told soundstream was bought by the owners of visonik.

zapco was bought by an italian company i just dont know the name.

mb quart is not rockford it is maxxsonics.

adire is out of business. whats the deal with the patented motor tech. that they held? were they selling the rights to use it to everyone else? re used to use the same structure.

re and us amps. i believe re used to be beyond audio, then they teamed up wth another company to make re

who owns earthquake?

soundstorm?

Image dynamics?

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Do you not know how to read?
RE = resonant engineering, resonant engineering = RE, k? k.

US Amps is now the majority stock holder for RE, so basically what they say goes.This is kinda old news.

Try not to over complicate things that do not need to be over complicated.

Apparently, you do not know how to read, as this was addressed about 15 posts ago.

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[mdillon 10+ year member]

im assuming dls and elem designs are the same?

 

[savagebee 10+ year member]

im assuming dls and elem designs are the same?

oh no

not at all

dls is a sweedish (I think) based company

elemental is just an authorized online dealer for em..thats the only connection there

 

[sundownz Pro Seller]

adire is out of business. whats the deal with the patented motor tech. that they held? were they selling the rights to use it to everyone else? re used to use the same structure.

Adire is gone but Dan Wiggins is not. He still owns the patent and still licenses it.

 

[J31Rob 5,000+ posts]

I'm speaking of all past/present accounts.

Many of the ones I listed have changed & will continue to change..