A tiny Riverside outfit run by industry lifers keeps inventing speaker categories the big brands never bothered to build - starting with a soundbar that lives in your ceiling.
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.
For six decades a factory in a Kentucky town of 2,500 has been building the speakers inside your amplifier - and letting other brands take the credit.
A small crew in Walnut, California ships line arrays, subwoofers and weatherproof PA gear straight to the DJs and churches who use them - and names the product series after planetary moons.