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What company made sound dynamics speakers

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API, audio products international..Canadian company that also makes energy speakers and others that I cant think of.
 
API......Energy, Mirage, Sound dynamics, Image, SDM, DB Plus, Paisley (?) and probably a couple others I can’t remember. Everything went downhill when the Klipsch group took over
 
Yup ... George Baker apparently was the Canadian distributor of Cerwin Vega. The classic Sound Dynamics design, 2-way with the spun aluminum horn tweeter and big woofers (even with orange surrounds), was his take on the CV.

Later SD models really were focused on the home theater market.

It's a fascinating, and not that well documented, piece of Canadian history.

Not directly related to SD speakers, but I just saw in George Baker's obituary that he also distributed EPI in Canada ... which probably explains why Winslow Burhoe was involved in design of the dual hyperdome tweeter used in the Energy Pro 22 series of speakers.

I understand that George Baker and his brother started API. Sound Dynamics was one of their 1st lines. Howard Heiber started Global Industries which later merged with API, and retained the API name. Howard became the President. George became VP of Marketing, or some such. Later George left and became involved with Nuance (too bad).

Paisley Research did have a tie-in with API. Ian Paisley's own speaker brand I understand was manufactured by API. Later Ian took over as VP Engineering from Kevin Vorecks. Kevin did the original designs of the Mirage line-up ... which (somewhat amazingly) morphed out of the British Tangent Acoustics through their Canadian distributor, Inception Audio.

API and / or Global OEM'd speakers for a number of Canadian companies ... some of which (such as Paisley and Mirage) later came into the API-fold. A number of others started as house-brands for various retail outlets ... such as SDM and dB-Plus.

Couple other product names ... Image, SPL, AudioPulse. ESM is a model-line of Energy.
 
you can't go wrong with with anything API, they had state of the art testing labs and everything they made was good. I had some sound dynamics r-818 speakers, after the spun horn tweeter, those actually made me make sense of all this imaging and soundstage nonsense. :)
 
George and his brother were definitely the distributors of Cerwin Vega before starting their own manufacturing in Canada under the name Audio Products International and launched the acclaimed Sound Dynamics brand. I was there...
Does anyone know where George is now??? Would love to find him....
Howard Heiber bought what was left of API when they unfortunately faltered...
Loved them all...where are they now??
Cheryl and George.....lets get back to Jamaica man!! Those were the days...!!!
Michael Seebeck...
 
I'm sad to hear George passed away...energetic and fun guy to say the least...his heart was always in the right place....
 
As I recall the Sound Dynamic 300TI was spoken quite nicely of by Harry Pearson and The Absolute Sound. At the end of their product run you could get them for a very reasonable cost from Audio Advisor. They were kind of legendary in terms of overall sound quality for an affordable price. A bit homely looking, and kind of an in between size, but for the frugal audiophile they were a great buy.

Regards
Mister Pig
 
Thanks Van_Isle....come to think of it...I did hear something about George back then but sorry...forgot...and I'm only 58.
George was a friend back in the day and took me under his wing for a while. We were producing speakers and were friendly competition...we used to ship tractor trailer loads of house brand speakers to the Brick Warehouse when they only had two high volume stores in Edmonton!
George was one fun guy and knew his stuff in the audio industry back then...he was bleeding edge...their product flew off the shelves...still miss him.
 
Van_Isle...those speakers look very, very familiar...right down to the plastic bollards holding the grille. I can't be sure but I would bet our company made them.
We built many or most of the house brand speakers for the Brick back then. The tweeter and midrange components came from Taiwan and we built our own woofers right down to winding our own voice coils...
The identifier would be the stamp on the backplate of the main driver...woofer.

We also made a higher end...our own brand "Laser" speakers which they sold as well. The tweeter in those came from the same design as Sound Dynamic's renowned spun aluminum horn tweeter with the only difference...ours was a custom steel stamped horn lens which we had powder coated black.

Hope your wife's speakers are still performing well.
 
The Audio Pulse "1235" indicates a 12" main driver "woofer" and the fact it's a 3 way system with tweeter and a midrange. If the cross-over components inside were mounted by hotmelt to a small piece of hardboard...I'm quite sure we made it.
 
The older run of Sound Dynamics speakers will REALLY surprise you with how good they sound. They look like Cerwin Vega knock offs, but they are not. Don't sleep on those.
 
A pair of 12S's were the "shock and awe" speakers of their day! They made a lot of them...
Glad to hear you still have and hopefully enjoy many of George and Ian's designs...
This discussion has brought back quite a few memories. Mostly good!
 
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