LOUD Audio

[2] Between 2003 and 2018, LOUD Technologies owned or distributed several music instrument and pro audio product brands that it had acquired over the years.

The CR-1604's feature set, performance, and competitive price was an ideal fit for a wide range of applications, resulting in hundreds of thousands of units sold over the course of the next five years, and accounting for over 48% of Mackie's overall revenues at that time.

[17] Mackie's lawsuit against Behringer UK similarly failed with Justice Pumfrey concluding "citizens of the United States of America are not entitled to design right under the CDPA unless habitually resident in the European Union or one of the comparatively limited list of qualifying countries".

[18] In February 2003 after declining sales and 7 consecutive quarters of per-share losses, Sun Capital Partners acquired 65% of the company, and subsequently delisted from NASDAQ.

[26] At the time of the announcement, Transom had promised to invest and grow each of the brands but the following year, Transom completed three divestments to focus exclusively on its core Mackie brand, selling Ampeg to Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc. in May, Martin Audio to Lloyds Development Capital in July, and EAW to the RCF Group in September of that year.

[27] In 2019, LOUD Audio announced that Mark Ureda had joined its board of directors after recently retiring as SVP at Harman Professional.

With the inevitable shift of manufacturing from USA to Mexico to China and the sale of several of its brands, LOUD downsized its US operations and relocated to Bothell, Washington in 2019.