List of UK Manufacturers Still Manufacturing Solely in the UK?

[drummerman]

Has Linn been mentioned yet?

 

[avole]

.....Veracity Audio, and I believe Heybrook speakers are still going....

I think Heybrook are long since defunct. Had a look at their website, and saw it datesfrom 2003. Also checked with a distributor which quotes 2005 as the "new" range.

Interestingly the main page of that dealer had been hacked and carried a particularly nasty anti-Israel message, so I assume the dealer, too, is defunct.

 

[ifor]

http://www.stillmadeinbritain.co.uk/electrical-hifi.html

 

[nopiano]

Has Linn been mentioned yet?

I did in post number 3!

 

[insider9]

Aren't Icon Audio valve amps designed and hand made in Leicester?

 

[chebby]

Aren't Icon Audio valve amps designed and hand made in Leicester?

No. They are all made in China.

 

[insider9]

Aren't Icon Audio valve amps designed and hand made in Leicester?

No. They are all made in China.

Wasn't sure hence the question. Thanks for clarification.

 

[manicm]

Has Linn been mentioned yet?

I don't like being ignored, can't you damn well read? Same about the other tosser who asked about Cyrus. One day I'll be the main star of Hitler Rant Parodies, just you watch.

 

[manix]

One problem - customer service. I would investigate that, some of the UK soley/mainly manufactuered brands have not exactly got the best customer service - which is odd because you would think they would have the best.

 

[manix]

Has Linn been mentioned yet?

I don't like being ignored, can't you damn well read? Same about the other tosser who asked about Cyrus. One day I'll be the main star of Hitler Rant Parodies, just you watch.

Get used to it. It will happen a lot if you post stuff like that.

 

[manicm]

Has Linn been mentioned yet?

I don't like being ignored, can't you damn well read? Same about the other tosser who asked about Cyrus. One day I'll be the main star of Hitler Rant Parodies, just you watch.

Get used to it. It will happen a lot if you post stuff like that.

drummerman would have known I was joking. I had in fact mentioned Linn and Cyrus early on.

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Has Linn been mentioned yet?

I don't like being ignored, can't you damn well read? Same about the other tosser who asked about Cyrus. One day I'll be the main star of Hitler Rant Parodies, just you watch.

That tosser was me, the thread starter.

That's you off the Christmas card list...

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

One problem - customer service. I would investigate that, some of the UK soley/mainly manufactuered brands have not exactly got the best customer service - which is odd because you would think they would have the best.

One would hope customer service was never needed...

Anyway, I'm in the US so return to manufacturer is a consideration.

Still leaning towards Cyrus with Pro-Acs....

 

[nopiano]

One problem - customer service. I would investigate that, some of the UK soley/mainly manufactuered brands have not exactly got the best customer service - which is odd because you would think they would have the best.

One would hope customer service was never needed...

Anyway, I'm in the US so return to manufacturer is a consideration.

Still leaning towards Cyrus with Pro-Acs....

Crumbs, I'd be jumping at the US brands we can't get here, like Magnepan. I guess that overseas products seem to have a cachet.

 

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I think KEF Reference and Blades are also manufactured in the UK? All the other models are 'Made in China'.

 

[drummerman]

Has Linn been mentioned yet?

I did in post number 3!

I do apologise

 

[manix]

One problem - customer service. I would investigate that, some of the UK soley/mainly manufactuered brands have not exactly got the best customer service - which is odd because you would think they would have the best.

One would hope customer service was never needed...

Anyway, I'm in the US so return to manufacturer is a consideration.

Still leaning towards Cyrus with Pro-Acs....

Well one could hope that. Now I have some cyrus gear so it's not as if I'm standing from the outside. It's used in my office small hifi. The CDP I would consider construction and quality wise pretty poor. Amps aren't too bad but they are stuffing more kit in them now.

CDP no surprise for Cyrus has needed repairs, which was quite eye opening what was actually in it. Didn't take it to Cyrus for the repairs because regardless of the problem they charge a huge flat fee - customer service poor IMO. You can't send the unit to them, you have to take it to a Cyrus dealer which then sends it to them. So the Cyrus dealer will take a cut of the repairs costs I assume. Go figure that.

Ask yourself this why would you put cheap self adhesive rubber feet on what is class as high quality item.

 

[Al ears]

One problem - customer service. I would investigate that, some of the UK soley/mainly manufactuered brands have not exactly got the best customer service - which is odd because you would think they would have the best.

One would hope customer service was never needed...

Anyway, I'm in the US so return to manufacturer is a consideration.

Still leaning towards Cyrus with Pro-Acs....

You devil you..... and you in the land of the cheap McIntosh... ;-)

 

[Al ears]

One problem - customer service. I would investigate that, some of the UK soley/mainly manufactuered brands have not exactly got the best customer service - which is odd because you would think they would have the best.

One would hope customer service was never needed...

Anyway, I'm in the US so return to manufacturer is a consideration.

Still leaning towards Cyrus with Pro-Acs....

Well one could hope that. Now I have some cyrus gear so it's not as if I'm standing from the outside. It's used in my office small hifi. The CDP I would consider construction and quality wise pretty poor. Amps aren't too bad but they are stuffing more kit in them now.

CDP no surprise for Cyrus has needed repairs, which was quite eye opening what was actually in it. Didn't take it to Cyrus for the repairs because regardless of the problem they charge a huge flat fee - customer service poor IMO. You can't send the unit to them, you have to take it to a Cyrus dealer which then sends it to them. So the Cyrus dealer will take a cut of the repairs costs I assume. Go figure that.

Ask yourself this why would you put cheap self adhesive rubber feet on what is class as high quality item.

That's debateable. I've had a couple of older bits of Cyrus kit and would describe build quality as fair to middling when compared to some similar priced kit from a couple of foreign manufacturers.

...and if the cheap rubber feet do the job....

 

[manix]

One problem - customer service. I would investigate that, some of the UK soley/mainly manufactuered brands have not exactly got the best customer service - which is odd because you would think they would have the best.

One would hope customer service was never needed...

Anyway, I'm in the US so return to manufacturer is a consideration.

Still leaning towards Cyrus with Pro-Acs....

Well one could hope that. Now I have some cyrus gear so it's not as if I'm standing from the outside. It's used in my office small hifi. The CDP I would consider construction and quality wise pretty poor. Amps aren't too bad but they are stuffing more kit in them now.

CDP no surprise for Cyrus has needed repairs, which was quite eye opening what was actually in it. Didn't take it to Cyrus for the repairs because regardless of the problem they charge a huge flat fee - customer service poor IMO. You can't send the unit to them, you have to take it to a Cyrus dealer which then sends it to them. So the Cyrus dealer will take a cut of the repairs costs I assume. Go figure that.

Ask yourself this why would you put cheap self adhesive rubber feet on what is class as high quality item.

That's debateable. I've had a couple of older bits of Cyrus kit and would describe build quality as fair to middling when compared to some similar priced kit from a couple of foreign manufacturers.

...and if the cheap rubber feet do the job....

Yes if the cheap stick on feet did do the job, sadly they fall off.

Mind you on the CDP's they have a flimsy plated plastic bottom plate with no structural support so probably is irrelevent. With my 6s CDP it has a tiny powersupply that moves onto a off the self cheap Philips board found in £200 players which on my machine the wires from it pinch against the argricultural disc mechanism probably because of poor manufacturing tolerance if you line stuff up properly. Though on the back end there is a Cyrus made board stacked above the Philips. Good luck if anything goes on the Cyrus board because everything is tiny.

 

[steve_1979]

NJC Audio

Clicky

 

[steve_1979]

I doubt there are any totally 'made in England' hifi companies. They all buy components that are made elsewhere in the world.

 

[luckylion100]

subwoofers.

 

[jonathanRD]

Designed and manufactured in the UK these days is probably the purist form of 'made in the uk' you are going to get, unless you are carving a speaker stand from a solid piece of English oak.

I remember working for a lead-acid battery manufacturer back in the early 90's. Their car batteries carried the slogan 'the Great British Battery', yet the shiny red cases and lids were from Italy. Can't remember where the lead and sulpuric acid came from, but at least the electricity was home made *smile*

 

[avole]

Likely candidates, but who knows?

Yorkshire: Sugden & Wilson Benesch,

Cambridge: Meridian

Chord?

High end Tannoy - Scotland

Exposure = Malaysia.

and production is being moved to China.