The Good , Bad and the Ugly

These companies are rated according to my xperience and thoughts. This is a general guide line of the good , bad and the ugly companies. However there are xceptions. the final reuslts depends on the environment , matching and the fitting.

The good :-
a/d/s
Adire
Alpine (high end head units, amps , Type x and r Speakers and woofers.)
Arc Audio
Audax
Audio Control
Brax
Butler Audio
CD Technologies (CDT)
Diamond Audio
Digital Designs (DD)
DynAudio
Eclipse (Fujitsu Ten)
Esoteric Audio
Focal
Harrison Labs
Image Dynamics (ID)
Infinity Kappa/Reference
JL Audio (subs, components, amps)
KEF Kar components
Kove
Luxman
MB Quart
McIntosh Laboratories
MMATS
Morel
Nakamichi (tape transports)
Ohio Alternator
Orion
OZ Audio
Pioneer (head units, speakers , woofers)
Precision Power (PPI)
Rainbow
Resonant Engineering (RE)
Rockford Fosgate
Sinfoni
Streetwirez
Stinger
US Amps
Wrangler Alternators
Xtant
Zapco
Kenwood Execlon
Altec Lansing
Alumapro
Ample Audio
Audio Development
Avionixx
Boston Acoustics
Cadence
Cerwin Vega (subs)
Clarion (head units)
Coustic
Crossfire
Crystal
Directed (DEI)
Earthquake
Eaton
Elemental Designs (eD)
Helix
Illusion
Infinity
JBL
JVC Digifine
Kicker
Lunar
Memphis Audio
MTX
Phoenix Gold
Polk Audio
Soundstream
USAcoustics



The BAD:-
Alpine (lower model speakers)
Autotek
Audiobahn
Blaupunkt
Aiwa
Crunch
Hifonics
Hollywood
Kenwood (amplifiers, head units,speakers)
Lanzar
Lightning Audio
Matsui
MTX (subs)
Onyx Mobile Audio
Panasonic
Phoenix Gold (ask on specific models)
Pioneer (amplifiers )
Precision Power (PPI) (newer non-US made amplifiers)
SAS Bazooka (all products)
American HiFi (Rockwood)
American Pro
Audiovox
Automobile
Becker
Boss
DHD
JDL
Jensen
Kenwood (speakers)
Kole
Kraco
Kronik
LA Sound
Legacy
MA Audio
Optimus (Radio Shack)
Planet Audio (Boss, by any other name)
Power Acoustik
Profile
Pyle
Pyramid
Rockwood
SAS Bazooka (amplifiers)
Sherwood
Sony (anything by Sony)
Sound Storm
Sparkomatic
SPL Audio
Thump
Ultimate Sounds
Visonik
Volfenhag


THE UGLY:-
All those brands which are not in this list and those which are selling oof as replicas of original brand names.