Obscure companies making excellent speakers?

yes i'm biased because I own a pair.

Tonian Acoustics is one of the very best yet least known companys in audio land.

I would like to propose a suggestion to the off the radar small companies making speakers:
The one way audiophiles meet and share ideas and do some listening together is through the local audiophile societies dispersed throughout the country.
Maybe a program can be developed through a concerted effort between the speaker(or other manufacturers) companies and audio clubs, and distribute on loan for a fee to all the audiophile societies for a set amount of time. It can be a rotating system that goes from one a. society to another. And in a years time 12 different brands will be heard in each of these clubs.
And as a bonus, each club can descibe their experience using the equipment at hand to point out which equipment matches best with the different speakers.
What do the manufacturers think on this idea?
I purchased my speakers after hearing them in someone's house, I didn't have any intentions of buying speakers at the time.

http://www.aminaaudio.com/

Benny is awesome, he is a very good tech and his speakers are amazing, I have listened to a ton of speakers but his are so smooth and musical its very impresive....

add to that ikonoklast and mark and daniel.

the former is a very interesting design. it uses two ohm/walsh tweeters and a transmission line. supposedly it has the transparency of a quad 57 , but i don't believe it. it sells for $4000/pair.

Excellent lists, although I am surprised nobody mentioned Zu unless I missed it. :)

However, IMHO the list is beginning to sound like Lake Wobegon where every child is above average. It would be good to know if a speaker stands out even among these good ones, and if so, how: Perhaps you could indicate the value a speaker provides: is the best speaker up to certain price point? Is it much better suited to certain kind of music or space than most others? Maybe the best WAF. :)

I also like the idea of local audiophile societies picking up the task of speaker comparison. Whether manufacturers cooperate or not, people could always bring what they have and have chosen and demonstrate them to others.