China's £40 Speakers Are Destroying a £68 Billion Hi-Fi Speaker Monopoly in UK - Here's How

0:00 How Chinese manufacturers are disrupting the hi-fi speaker market 1:18 Harman Kardon 2:16 JBL 3:11 Beatrice Foods 3:57 Infinity Systems 7:42 Mark Levinson 8:02 Sound United 10:42 Shenzhen 11:10 Guangzhou 11:34 Enping 11:46 Goatech 12:21 Osman Audio 14:15 International Audio Group 15:30 KEF 16:11 Anker I follow the speaker supply chain from a Shenzhen factory to British retail shelves, where similar hardware can carry dramatically different prices depending on the badge on the front. I trace Harman’s expansion through brands including JBL, Infinity Systems and Mark Levinson, the company’s acquisition by Samsung, and the consolidation of the wider audio industry. I also examine the lawsuit over Klipsch’s Gig XXL and how it ended in a confidential settlement. Then I look at Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Enping, the factories behind white-label, ODM and OEM speakers, International Audio Group’s British hi-fi brands, and Anker’s Soundcore challenge to established names. The final question is simple: how much should the badge really cost?