Which British brands are still and truly British?

[booja30]

Interesting as their website says they are British owned again.

I wonder how many people around the world have legally changed their last name to 'British' for this reason.

 

[CJ14]

Brands from the other thread:

Art Audio
ARC
ART
ATC
Atlas
Avid
Avondale
Beresford
Bespoke Audio Co.
BLQ
Chord
Chord Co
Coherent Systems
Croft
Cyrus
Decca
DCS
Ear Yoshino
Edwards Audio
EWA
Falcon Acoustics
Fyne Audio
Graham
Graham Slee
Gsp Audio
Harbeth
Heybrook
Isotek
Kerr Acoustics
Kralk Audio (not anymore in the market, IIRC)
Kudos
Leema
LFD
Linn
Living Voice
Longdog
MAD
Meridian
Michell Engineering
Monitor Audio
Music First
Naim
Neat
Nord Acoustics
Notts Analogue
Nottingham Analogue
Nytec
NVA
Onix DNA
Origin Live
Paul Hynes
PMC
QED
Quiescent
Radford Audio Ltd
Rega
Rothwell
SJS
SME
Sugden
Systemdek
Tellurium
Tom Evans
Tisbury
Titan
Trichord
Trilogy
Tron
Vertere
Volt
Wilmslow Audio
Wilson Benesch

I don't know if they are all true British but it makes more sense then 100 posts with one or two names IMO.

You missed a couple:-
In order of creation.

MIH
ProAc Magnum
Magnum
Dreadnought by Elsdon Wonfor
Inca Tech,
Inca Design
ITD
TOCA
Lescon Quatra,
Bensley Claymore
Tellurium Q
One4Audio
Elsdon Wonfor

All made in the UK except for some chassis work from over sea's.

Best Col

 

[Chris81]

You missed a couple:

And you missed this:

Brands from the other thread:

The list is not from me.
Maybe you can fill the list with your brands and post them again.

 

[tuga]

Spendor, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spendor.

(Never knew that about the company name...)

Reminds me of Bandor, after the founder DOReen BANce (Ted Jordan' ex-wife).

And Dudley Harwood copied his collegue Spencer Hugues when he baptised his speaker company: HARwood + elizaBETH

 

[cchean]

Of course, as many posts have touched on, we'd need to agree on what "still and truly British" means. It could be some combination of

• does it matter where are they headquartered?
• does it matter where their products are (final-)assembled?
• does it matter whether most of their components are British?
  
• does it matter whether they are privately owned (and if so, the nationality of their majority owners) or a PLC (shareholders may be transient/anywhere)?
• if a division of something bigger, does that automatically make them "un-British"? Or if they are an autonomous division of something overseas-HQ'd does that maybe count?

It's either complicated or, no offence to the OP, a meaningless concept.

Most hifi equipment relies on a huge number of components which are imported, whether DAC chips, speaker drivers, cases, or whatever. Let me list a few "British" favourites, all preceded by AFAIK and followed by a question mark:

ProAc: Scandinavian drivers assembled in Britain into British made cabinets by an independent British-owned company
ATC: British drivers assembled in Britain into British made cabinets by an independent British-owned company
Sugden: feels quintessentially British (owned, assembled) but no idea where the components come from
Music First Audio: British-wound transformers assembled in Britain
dCS: not sure about components or cases but... British owned, HQ'd, assembling in Britain
Arcam: formerly British in most senses, then acquired by US company (for IMHO their product hay day) and now owned by Harman-Kardon

Interesting insight, no offense taken.

That's why I established the criteria of "ownership", otherwise it would be really confusing. The same question could be asked from a "manufacturing country" perspective.

However, I believe ownership is the first step towards a company losing some of its identity. KRELL is not even the shadow of the great company it once was since Dan D'Agostino was kicked out, for example. I wonder how much of Naim's character remain after Julian Vereker's passing.

In this globalized economy we live in, I agree that most of the components that make up a hi-fi product will be sourced everywhere.

 

[alx]

Nytech is british!