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KICKER Built a 50-Year Audio Business by Making Bass Fit Where It Shouldn't
A one-off speaker box for Oklahoma pickup trucks became a global hardware company. Its most useful lesson is quieter than its products: engineer the hard part, then sell the customer less work.
The Speaker Company That Went Bankrupt - Then Put the Studio Back in the Living Room
M&K Sound helped popularize the powered subwoofer, disappeared into bankruptcy, and returned with the same stubborn proposition: your home theater should tell the truth about the mix. Here is what survived, what it costs, and what builders can borrow.
The 1962 Radio Shop That Learned to Speak Fluent Jeep
It started as a shop that fixed factory radios. Sixty years later, Drive-In Autosound is still betting that the thing you can't buy on Amazon is a clean install - and that Colorado drivers will pay for it.
Car Toys Spent 38 Years Selling You a Better Stereo. Then the Dashboard Got Smart.
For 38 years the Seattle chain sold drivers a better stereo than the one bolted in at the factory. Then the factory dashboard learned to do it all - and the largest independent car-audio retailer in America had to decide what it was really selling.
The Speaker Company That Names Its Line Arrays After the Moons of Jupiter
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.