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Originally Posted by djwhog

Nice Dan congrats.

So what happened to Crown, why did they change direction? Man they used to make mega powerfully yet clean amps. No just mega power pay stuff

Dave.......Crown was purchased by Harman International and their marketing scope was redirected under Harman Professional toward pro audio and concert sound reinforcement. Harman Professional is the world’s largest professional audio company. Brands include AKG Acoustics, AMX, BSS Audio, Crown, dbx, JBL Professional, Lexicon, Martin, Soundcraft, and Studer. These companies design, manufacture and market leading professional audio products for recording and broadcast, musicians, cinema, touring sound, commercial sound and contracting applications. Crown's home audio venture was put out to pasture.

Crown was originally known as IREC and built tape recorders. In 1972 the name Crown was voted on and adopted by the shareholders. In 1964, the company invented their first solid-state amplifier called the SA 20-20. From then on, the focus switched from tape recorders to amplifiers and the business was quickly growing. Harman International acquired Crown in March of 2000 and that essentially ended Crown's home audio direction. Today, under the direction of Harman Professional, Crown manufactures 14 different amplifier lines for professional, studio, cinema, and broadcast facilities. They offer a complete line of Touring components as well.

Crown is no longer the hand built home audio components of the 70's and 80's but the audio components from that era are robust, well designed, and are still sought after by many audio enthusiasts.