CEC Who are they?

A translation of various parts of the CEC website suggests that the company may have been a subsidiary or affiliate of Sanyo Electric well before Chuo Denki's audio business was transferred to Sanyo Optronics Ltd. (Sanyo Electric Co.'s optical drive division) in 1996. The audio business was transferred to Sanyo Mediatec in 1999 and was then made "independent" in 2000. It is not clear what "independent" means (it could be that it is a separate company with different owners than previously, or it could mean simply that they put a capital structure around it which was different than Sanyo Mediatec's - if I had to bet, I'd say the latter, and that the shareholder is still Sanyo).

I took a look at it because for some reason I thought there had been an association with Kyocera at some point but I can find no reference anywhere that such was ever the case...

Try here for the Canadian distributors of CEC.

I wasn't sure how I'd noted they had an analog background but originally (in the 1950s), Chuo Denki manufactured turntable motors, and later (later in the 1950s) manaufactured turntables on an OEM basis.