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Wharfedale is a British audio equipment brand, best known for loudspeakers.It is currently part of the International Audio Group.. Wharfedale also used to brand televisions, DVD players, set-top boxes and Hi-Fi players.
Mike Belitz, CEO and President of Ultimate Support, in a venture with Vancouver, B.C. Private Equity Firm, Regimen Partners, have acquired Radial Engineering Ltd. and its diverse catalog of brands that include Primacoustic, Tonebone, Reamp, Hafler, Dynaco, Jensen Transformers and Iso•Max.
The company offered a free 400-page catalog filled with descriptions of vast quantities of electronic gear, including microphones, speakers, tape recorders, and other components. [2] In 1981, Lafayette Radio entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy and sold its New York area stores to Circuit City. [1]
The Fisher was the brand name for high-end, high quality hi-fi electronic equipment manufactured in New York by The Fisher Radio Corp. during the "golden age" of the vacuum tube, which was named after the company founder, Avery Fisher. [9] [10] [11] During this period, similar brands were H.H. Scott, Marantz, Harman Kardon, and McIntosh. Some ...
RadioShack (formerly written as Radio Shack) is an American electronics retailer that was established in 1921 as an amateur radio mail-order business. Its original parent company, Radio Shack Corporation, was purchased by Tandy Corporation in 1962, shifting its focus from radio equipment to hobbyist electronic components sold in retail stores.
The former Jensen Radio Manufacturing Company was founded in 1927 by Peter Laurits Jensen, the co-inventor of the first loudspeaker, in Chicago, Illinois.The company gained popularity in its early years, rising to its peak in the mid 1940s when Jensen speakers were selected to be used in the first production of a guitar amplifier by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
The change to Realistic that year was reportedly made just in time before Radio Shack’s 1956 catalogs were to be printed. The company's most notable products under the Realistic brand included the extensive line of TRC series Citizens Band radio transceivers , which dominated the CB Radio market during the 1970s, and included the Navaho ...
JB Hi-Fi was established in the Melbourne suburb of Keilor East by John Barbuto in 1974, selling music and specialist hi-fi equipment. [3] Barbuto sold the business in 1983 to Richard Bouris, David Rodd and Peter Caserta, who expanded JB Hi-Fi into a chain of ten stores in Melbourne and Sydney turning over $150 million by 2000, when they sold the majority of their holding to private equity.