Owners of speakers by obscure companies chime in

Regarding how us obscurians promote our products, I do audio shows and take my speakers to people's home for an audition if they don't live too far away. I have had some success with Audiogon ads, but zero results from a year's worth of Stereophile classified ads. But most of my action has come from word-of-mouth, a lot of which can be traced back to audio shows.

I'll second the nomination of Rex speakers. I've heard them twice now at audio shows, and they punch well above their weight class in many areas. Vytas has done an excellent job as far as price/performance goes, not to mention their tiny footprint. Credit also to Trelja's amps. And speaking of Trelja, he didn't mention it but he imports an excitingly obscure line of speakers that I haven't heard yet but I like the philosophy behind them as well as the configuration:

http://www.opera-consonance.com/products/barque.htm

Duke
dealer/manufacturer

Rsgs92, if you're willing to cover shipping costs, I can think of at least one that would!

Eyes rolling innocently,

Duke
small manufacturer

Rgs92, I communicated with one of The Absolute Sound's reviewers, and the sticking point really was not advertising. The sticking point was my lack of a dealer network. TAS is at the top of the food chain (along with Stereophile), and as such their job is to review products that their readers have a reasonable chance of finding for an audition. There are several other magazines, some online only, who play the extremely valuable (and often more exciting) role of unearthing the underground gems.

MrTennis, congrats on your Sanders Sound solution!

Duke