Aiwa: The Almost Great Audio Company
Aiwa. Remember them? They established their name manufacturing hi-fi components in the ’70s and ’80s. In the ’90s they went mainstream. Boomboxes, portable CD players, headphones, speakers, mini-systems. In the ’00s they faded away, became property of Sony and died. Aiwa was so close to becoming an American establlishment, and a very unique one at…