A one-room radio-parts shop in 1925 Chicago turned into the microphone every roadie trusts and every meeting room quietly runs on. Here is how Shure spent a century refusing to go public - or to make a fragile mic.
A former Boeing engineer built a mixer he could drop off a table, priced it for people who play bars for beer money, and turned durability into a business model. Here is how Mackie kept selling ruggedness while the audience moved from the stage to the bedroom.