Company type | Private |
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Industry | Professional audio |
Genre | Audio equipment |
Founded | 1974 United States |
Founders | Bill Thompson Dave Malloy |
Headquarters | Webster, New York, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Bill Thompson (
Co-founder) Dave Malloy ( Co-founder) |
Products | Audio equipment |
Parent | Exertis JAM |
Website |
ashly |
Ashly Audio is an American audio equipment company founded by Bill Thompson and Dave Malloy in 1974. [1] Ashly produces over 40 products, including amplifiers, mixers, equalizers, digital and analog audio processors, for the recording and live sound industries. [1] [2] Ashly Audio is a division of Canadian corporate group Exertis | JAM. [3]
Ashly Audio, Inc. was started as a live sound reinforcement company until the founders began producing their own equipment. The company was named after a founder, Larry Ashley, who did not continue with the company into their era of equipment production when they became a corporation in 1974. [2]
Demand for the components used in Ashly's mixers caused the company to develop their equipment in a modular fashion. Their first successful product came in 1976, when they developed the SC-66 stereo parametric equalizer. It was a hit and Ashly changed their focus as a company toward developing modular rack gear.
Ashly developed power amplifiers using MOS-FET technology. [1] Their amplifiers were the first to be approved by Lucasfilm for THX certified movie theater sound systems. Later developments included the Ashly Protea and multichannel power amplifiers. [1] [4]
In 2008, Ashly Audio was sold to the Canadian audio distribution company JAM Industries, [1] [2] which rebranded as Exertis | JAM in 2021. [5]