Unusual countries for audio gear

@richardbrand  Lovely country and I agree though there is some local audio manufacturing albeit small and specialized.  My company has a very strong presence in Australia and and we did quite a bit of sponsorship in you Supercar Series.

One advantage of being in Australia is that we are almost equally far from everybody else, except New Zealand.  Everybody wants to sell us stuff and we have no barriers to trade!

Enthusiastically representing Switzerland, we (Alma Music + Audio https://almaaudio.com) also carry the full Stenheim line of speakers and the absurdly good Nagra line of electronics. And let's not forget the incredible Vinnie Rossi, from the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts!

@foggyus91 

Thanks for the compliment about my adopted country, which by and large is hot!

One of the themes here is that cold climates might induce more thoughtful designs.  I found out through this forum that the coveted Dohmann turntables are from Melbourne, which is renowned for getting four seasons in one day.  On the other hand, our snow fields are bigger than Switzerland but give no signs of spawning any HiFi startups

I dont know if we can count Yoruba talking drum as a piece of audio...

Certainly not, It is a musical instrument...

But the best book on acoustics i ever read was written by a Nigerian acoustician Akpen J. Essien who play also the Yoruba talking drum and was inspired by it to wrote his doctorate revolutionary thesis on acoustics...

After revolutionizing acoustics is there an audio company in Nigeria, i doubt it ?  But who knows if  it takes  someone from Nigeria to understand acoustics ....

@foggyus91 

Not relevant here, but rather surprisingly, Australia does export snow-making machines to Switzerland.  Climate change is making snowfall less reliable in both countries.

On the Supercars, they started as genuine production cars you could buy at car dealers.  The slogan was "Win at Bathurst on Sunday, buy on Monday".  So we had the fastest 4-door production cars in the world you could actually buy

My office in Canberra was bang in the middle of the parliamentary triangle and across the road from Parliament House.  For two years in a row, the Supercars raced right there, but winter in Canberra is too cold for the punters and we gave up holding that race!