Obscure companies making excellent speakers?

I wldn't call Zu obscure! Anyway another one would be Audio Machina's Pur System....I wish I coud audition them. They are very interesting indeed.

Zhorns another ;)

I would add Hawthorne Audio. Haven't heard them myself, but an interesting design of drivers for open baffle implementation. They have their own friendly and informative forum and first rate customer service.

Another brand I found at the UK HiFi show in london last weekend, Acoustic Plan.
http://www.acousticplan.de/html/products.html
A very nice open baffle design, with base drivers that can be driven actively or passively. That gives a sensitivity of 98 driven active and 88 passive. They really sounded very good, open, transparent, good soundstaging. I always think if a sytem sounds good in show conditions, it must really be good.

Hi Pedrillo, I'll have another go. My favorite remains Tidal but here are a few more brands for your next list, worthy of Audiogoners' interest. A wildly varying bunch, but each one will appeal to a different sonics/price/tec-specs/looks preference. I heard one or the other product from most of these at the Munich High End, others directly at the constructor's or distributor's (mind you, not always enough to give detailed descriptions of sonic peculiarities, let alone subtle differences between them)

Admittedly, "obscure" is not a valid description for some of these in their home markets, e.g. Audioplan in Germany, WML in Austria or Davis in France, but they are fairly unknown to the audiophile community at large (sorry guys, some of these do not have websites in English)

Horn Manufaktur (Austria)
http://www.hornmanufaktur.at/en_index.html
Wiener Lautsprecher Manufaktur (Austria)
http://www.wlm-loudspeakers.com/indexengl.html
Floating Systems (Belgium)
http://www.floating-systems.be/home.htm
Waterfall (France)
http://www.waterfallaudio.com/
Venus Acoustics (France)
http://www.venusacoustic.fr/index/index.html
Davis Acoustics (France)
http://www.davis-acoustics.com/gb/enceintes.php
Audioplan (Germany)
http://www.audioplan.eu/03e_products/03e_prod1_ls/03e_prod1_ls.html
Audiaz (Germany)
http://www.audiaz.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=5
Black Forest Audio (Germany)
http://www.blackforestaudio.de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=8
Ikon Akustik (Germany)
http://www.ikonakustik.de/lautsprecher.html
Mythos Audio (Greece)
http://www.mythosaudio.com/results.php?cat_id=15
Rosso Fiorentino (Italy)
http://www.rfspeakers.it/prodotti.htm
Daluso (Netherlands)
http://www.daluso.com/