A few days ago I asked for advice on getting pc speakers, and Monsoon was a
strong suggestion. I've read great things about several of their models,
but I'm baffled that I'm not able to find any online merchants who have any
of these in stock. The Monsoon website lists a phone number which is out of
service. Neither of the two companies that I've seen referred to as the
manufacturer (Sonigistix and Level 9 Sound Design) have websites.

What's the scoop? Is this company out of business or something?

Monsoon is (was) a Canadian Company with the product produced in China
I'm pretty sure they are defunct now.
The local drugsuperstore chain was recently heavily discounting the
remaining systens which were not as good as the originals anyway.
The ones to get if you can find them are the original flat panels with
what looks like a double bug screen and the amp/suboofer .
The flat panels are about 9 inches tall with the u shaped heavy wire
stands (can't find the model number, the box is long gone)
These are the ones many studios prefer to check mixes.

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:56:40 -0600, "rodan"
wrote:

A few days ago I asked for advice on getting pc speakers, and Monsoon was a
strong suggestion. I've read great things about several of their models,
but I'm baffled that I'm not able to find any online merchants who have any
of these in stock. The Monsoon website lists a phone number which is out of
service. Neither of the two companies that I've seen referred to as the
manufacturer (Sonigistix and Level 9 Sound Design) have websites.

What's the scoop? Is this company out of business or something?


Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services
Voice-overs, Newscaster, Engineering and Consulting
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Monsoon is (was) a Canadian Company with the product produced in China
I'm pretty sure they are defunct now.

I think you might be slightly mistaken....

Monsoon is a brand name of Delco Electronics which is a division of
the General Motors Corporation....

Many GM vehicles feature the Monsoon line of Delco stereos (Pontiac Grand Am,
Chevrolet Camaro, etc)

Delco Electronics is headquartered in Kokomo, Indiana....

Cheers,

Jeff (GM employee)

But they didn't make the computer speakers, did they?
They probably just took over the name.
Monsoon previously sold computer speakers for the past several years.
It was a Canadian based company selling flat panel computer speaker
systems made in China


On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 02:49:28 GMT,
(BrightBoy) wrote:

Monsoon is (was) a Canadian Company with the product produced in China
I'm pretty sure they are defunct now.

I think you might be slightly mistaken....

Monsoon is a brand name of Delco Electronics which is a division of
the General Motors Corporation....

Many GM vehicles feature the Monsoon line of Delco stereos (Pontiac Grand Am,
Chevrolet Camaro, etc)

Delco Electronics is headquartered in Kokomo, Indiana....

Cheers,

Jeff (GM employee)

Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services
Voice-overs, Newscaster, Engineering and Consulting
Vancouver, BC, Canada

(BrightBoy wrote:




Monsoon is (was) a Canadian Company with the product produced in China
I'm pretty sure they are defunct now.

I think you might be slightly mistaken....

Monsoon is a brand name of Delco Electronics which is a division of
the General Motors Corporation....

Many GM vehicles feature the Monsoon line of Delco stereos (Pontiac Grand Am,
Chevrolet Camaro, etc)

Delco Electronics is headquartered in Kokomo, Indiana....

Cheers,

Jeff (GM employee)


The brand name Monsoon is owned by General Motors. For a time they partnered
with a Vancouver company called Sonigistix and sold planar magnetic computer
speakers under the Monsoon brand.

Sonigistix went out of business in 2000, I think, maybe 2001 and another
company acquired the computer brand and assets and as far as I know moved
manufacturing to Asia. .

Delphi (formerly known as Delco Electronics, spun off GM) still sells Monsoon
(perhaps I should say "markets" because I don't know how much they actually
sell) branded OEM autosound systems.

The most commonly known Monsoon brands were in the now-defunct Camaro and
several Volkswagen models. However the report made in Voice Coil last year that
Monsoon planar magnetic speakers appeared in Volkswagens was just plain wrong.

VW did/does sell Monsoon branded systems but I don't think that any actually
used planar-magnetic drivers.

Several months ago I needed a cable for my Monsoon system. I called and was sent
a replacement. It didn't work right and a second call was needed to resolve the
issue. (Turned out the instructions were bad and I was using it incorrectly.)

Several weeks later I went to call again and there was no response.