"My name is Scott Buwalda, and I am the founder of Hybrid Audio Technologies.  Hybrid Audio Technologies has been meticulously developing an incredible line of car audio speakers since July 2005.  Our first offering, named the Legatia™ series, was developed to bring a truly high-end choice to car audiophiles.  The name Legatia is medieval Latin for "legacy"; Legatia is named after my mom, Joyce Buwalda, who passed in June 2006.

On April 1, 2006, we introduced our Legatia L3 wide-bandwidth 3” cone midrange driver, and a few months later, our incredible, compact Legatia L1 20mm soft-dome tweeter was released.  After nearly two full years of spending an inordinate amount of time listening to, testing, and refining  our Legatia speakers in a variety of configurations and settings, the entire Legatia product line is now available for purchase.  This includes the Legatia L1V2 (newly released iteration of our original Legatia L1 tweeter), Legatia L3 midrange, Legatia L4 midrange, Legatia L6 midbass, and Legatia L8 midbass/subwoofer, and the Legatia L2x vertically biamplified crossover. 

To augment the incredible Legatia line, we launched the Clarus™ series in 2008, a complete high-end offering of two-way component systems with passive crossovers, grilles, hardware, and tweeter mounting options at a cost-effective price.  Clarus takes many of the same design concepts as Legatia, and has already won numerous third-party awards and media testing accolades.  In 2010, Hybrid Audio Technologies entered the entry-level market with our fantastic Imagine™ series.  In its short tenure on the market, third-party testers, enthusiasts, and dealers have overwhelmingly reported that the Imagine coaxial and convertible component sets easily out-perform competitor's systems costing double in price.

All the while we were building Legatia, Clarus, and Imagine, we have been meticulously developing the world's finest speakers known collectively as the Legatia Special Edition™ and Legatia Pro™ series, starting off with our incredible Legatia L1 Pro tweeter, a low-resonance, high-end fine silk dome tweeter, now available in both brushed aluminum and black anodized finishes.  Other projects in the Special Edition series include the world's finest car audio radiator ring tweeter, the Legatia L1 Pro SE, as well as development of a Legatia L6 Special Edition, and permanent production of the famed radiator ring, the Legatia L1 Pro RR, both available in 2010.  We are also actively working on the Legatia L3 Pro midrange and Legatia L6 Pro midbass to be available late 2010, or early/mid 2011.  To be kept in the loop regarding release dates of the Pro series midrange and midbass, please contact us.

Even despite our short tenure as a speaker manufacturer, every speaker we produce has been proven in the competition circles, winning numerous world championships to date.  In fact, at the 2010 IASCA^® North American Championships, Hybrid Audio-equipped vehicles won more Championships than every other front-stage speaker manufacturer combined.  For five years running, that kind of domination is no fluke; it's a testament to the quality of the product.  Hybrid Audio is world championship car audio, and it's available to you, right now.

With all of our available designs, we can accommodate virtually any imaginable 2-way, 3-way, or 4-way component system with Legatia, Clarus, Imagine, or a combination thereof.  Since all of our speakers can be purchased separately, you can assemble a set that meets your needs quite easily.  We are the only car audio manufacturer that we're aware of that readily sells its speakers ala carte, without making you purchase the item you need bundled in a set with other components you might otherwise not need.  Also, we offer a service no other speaker manufacturer provides at the price level of Legatia, and that is to hand-match Thiele/Small parameters for sets of speakers; yes, you can get a completely hand-matched set of speakers for about 1/5 of the other guys matched-set speakers!

On to the 'nuts and bolts' of my letter.  I wanted to take a moment and share with you exactly what it takes to build newly-designed speakers.  Ever wonder how some manufacturers can turn new product lines over in a matter of weeks or a few short months?  Ever notice a distinct similarity between different brands of speakers: speakers using the same exact frames, magnets and T-yokes, cones, dust caps, and the only difference being the logo on the magnet and a different colored shipping carton?  Ever wonder how a company can have a “prototype” in their demo car, and then announce production just six weeks later?  It’s because many of these drivers incorporate most, or all of an existing design; this is called “re-badging.”  Re-badging is when a build-house/manufacturer will pull an existing design off the shelf, dust it off, maybe change a small parameter or two, slap a decal on it, or put a logo on the dustcap, put it into their client’s own specially designed carton, and ship it.  The vast majority of car audio speakers today are re-badged versions of each other.  Very few companies offer only new designs; Hybrid Audio is one such company.

To build a speaker 'from the ground up' takes a considerable amount of time to do properly.  Why has it taken almost two years to develop the Legatia line-up of speakers, and every other design we have gone to production with?  It's because all of our designs are fresh, and have no equal in the world.  We have tested and re-tested all of our designs in real life car environments, and have put them against the very best in organized sound quality competition, and have won national- and international titles all around the world for the past several years in MECA, EMMA, USACi, and IASCA.  Months, and in many cases years are spent listening to, testing, evaluating, and refining our speakers before we call them good enough to be Hybrid Audio Technologies products.  When you buy a Hybrid product, you’ll find it to be not only unique to the many brands of speakers available, but also exceed performance of those systems costing significantly more money.  Why are Hybrid Audio Technologies products better?  It’s simple: they were made specifically for car audio use, by car audiophiles and veteran speaker designers.  And it doesn't hurt having the lead speaker engineer being a multiple Expert world champion, either.  We know what works in the car audio environment.  Legatia™ and other Hybrid Audio designs are not re-formulated home audio speakers.  Read this document, our L3 user's manual, for more details on why our designs are best suited for car audio use.

Now that we have established what it takes to create a fresh design, and why Hybrid products are true car audio performers, I wanted to implore you to try our speakers.  We are a very small company, built on old-fashioned customer service and a solid product offering; the products we sell put a priority on performance.

I hope I have made a case for your use of Hybrid Audio Technologies products.  I know it's often difficult to buy a product that you might not be able to hear first hand, but take my word that each of my designs are excellent in every way, and you won't be disappointed with any of Hybrid Audio speakers if they're properly installed.  We have competition results to back up all of our designs, and rave reviews on the product around the world.  So when can I be honored to have you as a Hybrid Audio Technologies client?"

Best Regards,

Scott Buwalda

Founder – Hybrid Audio Technologies