# What logo is this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 22, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408 "2013-09-22T02:19:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kingfinnegan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@kingfinnegan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingfinnegan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/1 "2013-09-22T02:19:31Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/2j93aHw.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/2j93aHw.jpg) Any help is greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/2 "2013-09-22T02:22:17Z")
Mickey Mouse? It’s got an “M” and two ears. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/3 "2013-09-22T02:25:22Z")
Any info you can give might help. Where did you see it (country or region of the country)? What is it on? ---
**Author:** ![kingfinnegan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@kingfinnegan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingfinnegan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/4 "2013-09-22T02:26:22Z")
It is on an old speaker. Home audio equipment. ---
**Author:** ![kingfinnegan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@kingfinnegan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingfinnegan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/5 "2013-09-22T02:28:17Z")
United States, Colorado ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/6 "2013-09-22T03:20:50Z")
Marshall? Marantz? Macintosh? Cthulhu? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/7 "2013-09-22T03:30:08Z")
I put the logo into a reverse Google Image Search and got nothing. But maybe this list will help: [http://hometheaterreview.com/audio-video-brands](http://hometheaterreview.com/audio-video-brands) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/8 "2013-09-22T03:30:34Z")
Been [looking thru this](http://hometheaterreview.com/audio-video-brands/), didn’t see that logo. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/9 "2013-09-22T03:49:11Z")
Is it on a speaker you have access to, or is it a picture of a logo you found somewhere else? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/10 "2013-09-23T04:07:25Z")
The speaker looks to be of 1970-1980s vintage. My guess is these are someone’s “house brand” so they may be hard to pin down unless you can find a name on the back. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/11 "2013-09-23T06:44:42Z")
If it’s your speaker, or you have access to it, isn’t there some kind of label on the back? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/12 "2013-09-23T12:42:25Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > The speaker looks to be of 1970-1980s vintage. My guess is these are someone’s “house brand” so they may be hard to pin down unless you can find a name on the back. This. I’d say it’s a knockoff of Marantz. We used to go to a local flea market and there were always sellers of car audio gear. It looked great - always like the top-brand stuff in style and so forth - but it was all bizarre non-names like “Mostio” and “Paneer” and so forth. Something about the OP logo looks like stuff from that source. Could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/13 "2013-09-23T12:50:50Z")
Made me think of MusicMan, but they didn’t make home audio. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/14 "2013-09-23T16:00:09Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > This. I’d say it’s a knockoff of Marantz. But the logo is nothing like [Marantz.](https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=748&q=marantz&oq=marantz&gs_l=img.3..0l10.539.1391.0.1663.7.7.0.0.0.0.94.506.7.7.0....0...1ac.1.27.img..0.7.504.2sbmjD0XA18#q=marantz+logo&tbm=isch) I looked thru a list of “M” audio manufacturers, checked out each logo (not all of them had one in the Wiki page), looked at a list of M logos, and did some image searches. Nothing, not even close. It occurred to me that it might not be an M, but two P’s back to back (think negative logo). Or not intended to be any letter at all, but just a design. The circles at the top look like abstract stereo speakers, though. My guess is house brand, and a short-lived manufacturer. 'Tis a puzzlement. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/15 "2013-09-23T16:13:40Z")
If it’s a knockoff it might be an attempt to be reminiscent of Monitor Audio: [http://audio-republic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Monitor-Audio-Logo\_edited-1.png](http://audio-republic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Monitor-Audio-Logo_edited-1.png) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/16 "2013-09-23T16:31:23Z")
**Kingfinnegan,** is there any possibility that the logo has been rotated on the speaker? That might make it a W or 3. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/17 "2013-09-23T16:58:37Z")
OTOH, it may be from a company so small, obscure and forgotten it’s… forgotten. Speakers in particular were often built by small shops that came and went. Getting a few thousand silk-screened logo plates was often their first business step; throwing out 90% of them was often the last. (I have a **\_\_\_\_\_ Computer Systems** plate I pried off an obscure piece of equipment long ago, the blank being my real last name. I prize it highly and move it from one primary workstation to the next. I also recall when every computer-builder store had their own 1-inch-square logo plate to go into the recess on XT and AT cases…) ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/18 "2013-09-23T17:17:49Z")
It has the same “m” as this: [http://www.bedroomlan.org/sites/default/files/field/image/1906/cft-logo-v1-small.jpg](http://www.bedroomlan.org/sites/default/files/field/image/1906/cft-logo-v1-small.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/19 "2013-09-23T17:20:49Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I also recall when every computer-builder store had their own 1-inch-square logo plate to go into the recess on XT and AT cases…) AFAIK, most whitebox builders still do this. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408/20 "2013-09-23T17:23:06Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > AFAIK, most whitebox builders still do this. Ah. Haven’t seen a whitebox system in years. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-logo-is-this/669408.md?page=2)