I'd like to add my two cents in this matter.

I work in the consumer electronics industry. A rebrand happens when a domestic company decides to purchase a product from an OEM manufacturer and stamp their own brand on it. This is a common practice everywhere though it happens more often in Asia, Africa and South America. Almost all OEM factories are now located in China.

Engineering for audio which involves scientific research and development is a very costly exercise and sadly, there is not much of that happening here in the Philippines for electronics. If there were, we would be seeing a lot of patents being filed at the IPO.

It is economically impossible for one company to be involved in the manufacture of a wide scope of products unless they are giants in the industry. Even the giants like Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, Sanyo and others share resources from time to time. For a small company to approach the "shotgun" method in putting out products, they would need to have suppliers from different OEM factories.

Taking out the emotion in the exchanges in this thread and approaching it from a technical and business standpoint, I find jhnkvn's posts are astute and correct.

As an aside, I am familiar with the Nautilus line of B&W speakers though I am more a fan of Sonus Faber. Those are serious drivers you're using. I don't know anyone who'd use that midrange driver in their vehicle. My hat's off to you.