{{Short description|American audio equipment manufacturer}} {{redirect|Ashly|people with the given name|Ashley (given name)}} {{Infobox company | name = Ashly Audio, Inc. | logo = Ashly Audio 2011 Logo.png | type = Private | genre = Audio equipment | foundation = {{start date and age|1974}}<br>United States | founders = Bill Thompson<br>Dave Malloy | location = Webster, New York, U.S. | direct presence = | locations = | area_served = Worldwide | key_people = | industry = Professional audio | products = Audio equipment | services = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | owner = | num_employees = | parent = Exertis JAM | divisions = | subsid = | homepage = {{url|ashly.com}} | footnotes = }}
'''Ashly Audio, Inc.''' is an American audio equipment company founded in Upstate New York by Bill Thompson and Dave Malloy in 1974.<ref name="FoH">{{Cite web |url=http://www.fohonline.com/news/11003-ashly-audio-40-years-of-sound-innovation.html |title=Ashly Audio: 40 Years of Sound Innovation |last=Mitchell |first=Kevin |website=Front of House |access-date=2017-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113030349/http://www.fohonline.com/news/11003-ashly-audio-40-years-of-sound-innovation.html |archive-date=2017-01-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Ashly produces over 40 products, including amplifiers, mixers, equalizers, digital and analog audio processors, for the recording and live sound industries.<ref name="FoH" /><ref name="DC" /> Ashly Audio is a division of Canadian corporate group Exertis | JAM.<ref>{{cite web |title=JAM Industries Rebrands as Exertis JAM and Reaffirms Commitment to Core Values |url=https://www.yahoo.com/now/jam-industries-rebrands-exertis-jam-123900303.html |website=Yahoo |publisher=Yahoo |access-date=5 April 2022 |date=13 October 2021}}</ref>
==History==
===1960-1976=== 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.<ref name="DC">{{Cite web |url=http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/business/2016/03/06/ashly-audio-webster-ny-business-ashly-sound-systems-sound-system-manufacturers-large-scale-sound-systems/81287720/ |title=Small business spotlight: Ashly Audio amps up sound |website=Democrat and Chronicle}}</ref>
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.
===1977-present=== Ashly developed power amplifiers using MOS-FET technology.<ref name="FoH" /> 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.<ref name="FoH" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ashly.com/products.html |title=Ashly Audio Product Locator |work=ashly.com |accessdate=14 January 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224195914/http://www.ashly.com/products.html |archivedate=24 December 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2008, Ashly Audio was sold to the Canadian audio distribution company JAM Industries,<ref name="FoH" /><ref name="DC" /> which rebranded as Exertis | JAM in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=JAM Industries Rebrands as Exertis JAM and Reaffirms Commitment to Core Values |url=https://www.yahoo.com/now/jam-industries-rebrands-exertis-jam-123900303.html |website=Yahoo |publisher=Yahoo |access-date=5 April 2022 |date=13 October 2021}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.ashly.com/}}
Category:Manufacturers of professional audio equipment Category:JAM Industries Category:Manufacturing companies based in New York (state) Category:Companies based in Monroe County, New York Category:American companies established in 1976 Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1976 Category:1976 establishments in New York (state) Category:Audio equipment manufacturers of the United States