Editing Altec Lansing (section)

{{Short description|American audio equipment manufacturer}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Altec Lansing, Inc.
| logo = File:Altec Lansing (logo).svg
| logo_caption = Logo as of 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/502125645900439552/N5Ywrzu9.jpeg|title=Profile image|website=pbs.twimg.com|access-date=2016-05-24|archive-date=2016-04-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414164159/https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/502125645900439552/N5Ywrzu9.jpeg|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| type = [[Private company|Private]]
| founded = {{Start date and age|1927}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://allservicecenters.com/service-center-altec-lansing-hyderabad-02961|title=Service Center Altec Lansing hyderabad|website=allservicecenters.com|access-date=2016-05-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224154/http://allservicecenters.com/service-center-altec-lansing-hyderabad-02961|archive-date=2013-12-02|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| founder = Alvis Ward<ref>[http://www.audioheritage.org/html/history/altec/altec-1963.htm Altec Lansing History]</ref>
| key_people = Ike S Franco (chairman)
| hq_location = 1407 Broadway
| hq_location_city = [[New York City]]
| hq_location_country = United States
| owners = Infinity Lifestyle Brands
| num_employees = 
| industry = [[Audio electronics]]
| products = Consumer [[loudspeaker]]s, [[headphones]], [[in-ear monitors]]
| homepage = {{URL|alteclansing.com}}
}}

'''Altec Lansing, Inc.''' is an American [[audio electronics]] company founded in 1927.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=24654 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202010101/https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=24654 |archive-date=2013-12-02 |title=Company Overview of Altec Lansing/AL Infinity, LLC | website=[[Bloomberg News]] |url-status=dead |access-date=2016-09-16}}</ref> 
Their primary products are [[loudspeakers]] and associated audio electronics for professional, home, automotive and [[multimedia]] applications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.plughitzlive.com/radio/2-982-altec-lansing-creates-a-range-of-almost-indestructible-bluetooth-speakers.html|title=Altec Lansing Creates a Range of Almost Indestructible Bluetooth Speakers - PLuGHiTz Live - Special Events - Show Notes - PLuGHiTz Live|website=www.plughitzlive.com|access-date=2016-05-24}}</ref>

Engineers at [[Western Electric]], who later formed Altec Services Company, developed the technology for motion picture sound that was introduced in 1927, with the release of ''[[The Jazz Singer]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.alteclansing.com/legacy|title=TIMELINE: A Legacy of Sound|website=www.alteclansing.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040825020402/http://www.alteclansing.com/legacy/|archive-date=2004-08-25|access-date=2016-05-24}}</ref>

Originally, Altec Services Company serviced the [[Theatre|theater]] sound systems the company founders had helped develop. In 1941, the Altec Services Company purchased the nearly bankrupt '''Lansing Manufacturing Company''' and melded the two names, forming the Altec Lansing Corporation, and with the manufacturing capabilities of the former Lansing Manufacturing Company, they quickly expanded into manufacturing [[horn loudspeaker]]s.

In 1958 the Altec Lansing Corporation was purchased by [[James Ling]] who made it part of LTV Ling Altec. LTV spun off Altec which it loaded down with debt first. By 1974, the company was saddled with debt.  It was reorganized under Chapter 11 as Altec Corporation and continued for 10 years.  Altec filed a second bankruptcy. In 1984, Gulton Industries purchased the brand out of [[Chapter 11 bankruptcy]].  Gulton was acquired by Mark IV Audio. Since then, there has been a string of owners, purchased in 1986 by [[Sparkomatic]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.audioheritage.org/html/history/altec/altec-history.htm|title=ALTEC LANSING|website=www.audioheritage.org|access-date=2016-05-24}}</ref> with the Pro equipment still made by Mark IV Audio, Mark IV sold out to Telex, who closed down the Pro division and folded its products into [[Electro-Voice]]. In 2005 Altec Lansing Technologies was acquired by [[Plantronics]], 2009 bought by Prophet Equity, and has been owned since 2012 by the Infinity Group, a company which acquires struggling companies.<ref name="twice.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.twice.com/articletype/news/infinity-group-buys-altec-lansing-name-plans-rebuild-brand/103647|title=Infinity Group Buys Altec Lansing Name, Plans To Rebuild Brand|date=2012-10-18|website=www.twice.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202225253/http://www.twice.com/articletype/news/infinity-group-buys-altec-lansing-name-plans-rebuild-brand/103647|archive-date=2013-12-02|access-date=2016-05-24}}</ref>

Popular loudspeakers included the [[Altec Lansing Duplex]] 600-series [[coaxial loudspeaker]], [[studio monitor]]s from the 1940s to the 1980s,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SyQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT95 |page=42 |title=Sound Pioneers |magazine=Billboard |last=McGowan |first=Chris |date=November 15, 1980 |volume=92 |number=46 |issn=0006-2510 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media}}</ref> and the Altec "Voice of the Theatre" line of loudspeakers widely used in [[movie theater]]s, [[concert halls]], and also in rock concerts from the 1960s to the 1990s, such as custom designs used at [[Woodstock|Woodstock Festival]].