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Galante Audio
Loudspeaker manufacturer based in Perkasie, PA, USA and later in Bethlehem in the same state, founded in 1994 or 5. Specialised in manufacturing high sensitivity loudspeakers featuring single coaxial drivers, original models were all angled floorstanders like most similar designs but in or around 2001 the company introduced standmount models. Went out of business in late 2003.

Game Shark See --> Recoton

GAS See --> GAS

Gates
Founded in 1922 in Illinois, USA, to manufacture radio receivers for consumer use, but within a few years started to supply the broadcast and professional entertainment markets and exited the consumer market altogether before the end of the decade. While best known for their transcription turntables a concept that the company actually invented in 1926, they manufactured a mind boggling variety of products ranging from microphones and specialised tape recorders to radio transmitters. Bought by the Harris Corp. in 1957 and is now the Harris Broadcast Communications Division, oddly enough the company sometimes uses the Gates name for it's radio transmitters. Official homepage.

Geloso
Founded in 1931 as S. A. John Geloso in Milano, Italy to manufacture radio receiving and broadcasting equipment and quickly became the leading Italian manufacturer in the field. After WWII it moved more into the field of consumer electronics and with it further into the manufacture of electronic components by necessity, but since most of the European electronics industry was in ruins after the war, trade restrictions hindered British exporters and the US dollar was so expensive that importing from the Americas was just not economically possible. Primarily a manufacturer of broadcast and communications equipment but is probably best known in the English speaking world for their tape recorders and ham radio equipment that were very popular in the USA and UK in the late 50's since the devalued Lira meant that they were sold at prices that local manufacturers could hardly match. Went bankrupt in 1973 and was split into 9 sub companies that were sold separately, the audio division became PASO Sound.

Genesis Technologies
High end loudspeaker manufacturer based in Gypsum, Colorado, in the USA. Founded in 1991 by Arnie Nudell (Infinity founder) and Paul McGowan, went into liquidation in late 2001.

Gennett See --> Starr Piano Co.

Goldbug See --> Mark Corp.

Golden Tube, Golden Audio, Golden Theatre See --> Solo Electronics

Goodmans Loudspeakers Limited
Founded in 1991 when the Tannoy Goodmans Industries Plc. group decided to make the OEM part of their business a separate entity and to withdraw the use of the Goodmans trademark from the consumer sector (which also resulted in the consumer trademark rights being sold or licensed to Alba). The GLL company was based in Havant in Hampshire, UK and initially made a fairly generic range of loudspeaker drivers with focus on supplying the then burgeoning TV market (the UK was for a time in the 80s and 90's one of the largest manufacturer of TV's in the world due to a number of Asian companies that opened up assembly lines there in order to gain a manufacturing base inside the EU) but during the 90's increasingly focused on the lucrative automotive loudspeaker sector and in the latter half of the 90's the company was one of the main supplier of drivers to General Motors Europe, Volkswagen, Peugeot, BMW and Honda, the drivers from the company being ideally suited for this purpose being units made almost entirely out of synthetic materials. In order to refocus on the auto market and gain a lower cost manufacturing base the company leased the manufacturing plants of Videoton in Hungary in 1999 and formed a strategic alliance with the Malaysian company Foremost Audio the year after and in order to be able to supply the South American sector they formed an alliance with the Brazilian company Thomas KL which was prior to that primarily a supplier of after-market solutions, they had also increased the portion of bought in Asian parts from companies such as Sound Source to drive costs down.

GLL had been quite profitable during the 1990's unlike some other parts of the TGI group but in 2001 the competition from cheap Chinese imports suddenly and quite dramatically turned the fortunes of the company around and it posted it's first yearly loss, TGI was acquired by the Danish company TC Group in 2002 and they decided to actually take the company forward in a similar fashion to the rest of the group with emphasis on using high tech solutions and image, plans were indeed made for OEM DSP based amplifier solutions partly based on technology from the TC Group which would have been the company's first foray into the auto electronics market. There was also a notable image change with a new logo that emphasised that the company was by now a primarily a car audio manufacturer and the reintroduction of the Goodmans name but the company had been using the GLL brand prior to that with it's logo that depicted a home hi-fi loudspeaker. In 2002 GLL also opened a new manufacturing plant in Monterrey in Mexico and a technical centre in Detroit, Michigan, USA with a view to supplying the North American car manufacturers (although I gather that in the end the Mexican plant only suplied VW Mexico). The new strategy was to a degree a success with the company becoming the favoured supplier to a number of car manufacturers that recognised their products as technically superior and in addition to their traditional European customers the company had major design wins in the USA, but it was also a double edged sword since GLL had to match or at the least be fairly close in price to their competitor and at this time the market was bombarded with cheap Chinese speakers, so GLL in effect had to supply a technically more advanced and more expensive solution on the same price resulting in further and growing losses, additionally it had been costly to move manufacturing outside of the UK, more costly than originally thought and with less benefits than expected and to add insult to injury it also proved more expensive to shut down production in the UK than was expected, just the employee termination liabilities would come to more than 1,4 million £. As the prospects for the company going into the black in the near future being bleak the TC Group decided to exit the car audio market altogether and to sell GLL, attempts to sell it as a going concern failed so it went into administration on the 10^th of March 2004. Note that the homepage will probably only be up until the administration process has finished. Official homepage.

Grace See --> Shinagawa Musen Co.

G. R. Acoustics
Tiny high end loudspeaker manufacturer and loudspeaker parts dealer based in Edson in Alberta, Canada. Run by and named after Gregory Roth, active in the latter half of the 90's, not to be confused with USA based GR Research which is active in the exact same business sector.

Gray Research & Development Co.
Company based in Hartford, USA that supplied broadcast audio and video equipment such as transcription turntables and colour monitors (for the experimental colour TV transmissions of the 50's), although they also made tonearms for the consumer market in the late fifties and early 60's and were quite successful in the dictation market in the 50's with the Audiograph. Earliest products we have seen from the company date from the 40's and the latest products appear to have been made in the late 60's or early 70's.

Great American Sound Co. (GAS)
Company based in Chatsworth, California, USA and founded by Adam Zareba, James Bongiorno (formerly of SAE), Andrew Hefley, Bob Hefley and Ed Miller in 1974, the company was founded around the Ampzilla project, a high power amplifier that Bongiorno designed and was published as Popular Electronics project, the sales of kit's of this design was the basis of the company but it was soon replaced by the designs that were only available as a fully built units. Bongiorno left the company in 77 to found Sumo but he is still involved in making amplifiers based around the same basic design with a company called Spread Spectrum Technologies. The Gasworks Industrial company specialises in repairing and upgrading products from the company and have more information on their pages. Company went bankrupt in 1982, last CEO of the company was Bob Hefley but it appears that Andy Hefley bought the name and he was trading using this brand selling inexpensive electronic kits in the mid 90's, more recently he has been designing high end amplifiers for Monarchy Audio. You can read about the Godzilla amp that the company designed for the Grateful Dead here.

Greenwave Audio
Company based in Budapest in Hungary, first heard from in the latter half of the 90's as a manufacturer of valve amplification but introduced a line of horn loaded loudspeakers in 2000 and later showed a loudspeaker with a "magnet to magnet" set-up not unlike the old Sinus speakers, disappeared from our view in 2002, printed here is the last known address.
Greenwave Audio Ltd., Köhalomu 4, Budapest, H-1118 Hungary.
Phone : +361 319 7141 or 319 3463. Fax : +361 319 5200.

Grimes Radio Corporation See --> Electrohome

G. R. Lawson Ltd. See --> Lawson & Parsons

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