
COMPANY PROFILE:
Manley Laboratories, Inc.
in recent years has expanded and thrived under EveAnna
Manley's leadership. Our 11,000 sq. ft. building houses our own machine shop,
printed circuit board manufacture, audio transformer winding, engraving, and
silk-screening facilities.
All custom design, R&D, assembly, testing, and quality
control processes are performed with precision and pride at the Manley factory,
located just 35 miles east of Los Angeles.
NEO-CLASSIC: MANLEY ALL-TUBE GEAR
We take a purist approach to everything we build; refining,
executing, and expanding upon Manley's legacy of vacuum tube design
philosophies proven over years of real-world experience, using high quality
modern components, many of which are fabricated in-house. This attention to
detail delivers the rich, present, and natural sound our vacuum tube designs
are renowned for. Never small, sterile, or boring. Beyond this, Manley means
reliability, real technical support, and a company attitude that professionals
depend on.
BIG BANG FOR THE BUCK: LANGEVIN is a legendary marque of
premium electronics whose lineage goes back to World War II. MANLEY acquired
the LANGEVIN brand name several years ago. With these products we offer you the
different sonic flavor that ALL-DISCRETE CLASS A CIRCUITRY brings using fresh,
original designs built alongside and to the same exacting standards as the
Manley equipment.
We believe that good music and
those who create it deserve the finest gear.
The choice is yours.
About Manley Labs...
The MANLEY brand has been around since the late 1980's.
Manley's first commercially available products were upper echelon high-fidelity
vacuum tube amplifiers and preamplifiers constructed at the old Vacuum Tube
Logic of America factory.
In this history lesson, we'd like to direct special focus on
our people at Manley Labs. The people whose years of dedication, service, and
expertise bring you people, our customers, these products. It's all about the
people...
On January 30, 1989, a 20 year old EveAnna on sabbatical
from her studies at Columbia University met the crew and was hired on to the
production team. Baltazar Hernandez, already with two years experience, taught
her how to solder in those first few days. It was in 1989 that the first Manley
professional products were developed, starting with the original 1u Reference
60dB Microphone

Preamplifier and soon followed by our Manley Enhanced Pultec
and Mid Frequency Equalizers. Baltazar and EveAnna, busy building gear, were
soon joined by Saulo and Ramiro Montalvo. Just next door, Elias Guzman was
employed by a printed circuit board maker later brought into the Manley Labs
fold when in 1993, Manley Laboratories, Inc. became a separate entity apart
from VTL. The new Manley Labs factory at 13880 Magnolia Ave. in beautiful and
bovine Chino, California was outfitted to house the Manley HiFi and Pro Studio
manufacturing as well as the Langevin production lines, our newly acquired
machine shop, and printed circuit board facilities.
Take a virtual factory tour!
Dedication and Experience: Let's celebrate the original core
crew at Manley Labs, working together since 1989.
Between 1993 and 1996, a plethora of new products were
introduced for both the Hifi and Pro studio markets. Growing from nearly
nothing, several key engineering and production staff joined the Manley team
during these years. We would like to honour these valuable Manley team members
for their years of service to the company.
Here for only three years, David Manley abruptly left the
company and the country in 1996. Between 1996 and 1999 EveAnna Manley was left
in de facto charge of the company. It was during this time that the modern form
of Manley Labs began to take shape.
Customers' requests were granted and almost
all the existing products were renovated and improved during these years while
new designs took a new direction under the neew regime with EveAnna making the
decisions as evident in the innovations with the Stingray, the Voxbox, and the
Massive Passive which came out during these years. The results were a doubling
of sales and volume during this period. People started to really notice.
EveAnna Manley brought already ten years of experience with
this gear and this crew to the table when in 1999 she officially took over the
company and the deal was signed. Now
free to let 'er rip, EveAnna solidified the the team at Manley Labs and
developed the crew of 40 some-odd people into the powerhouse of production it
is today. Planning for the future, EveAnna purchased the building next door
which is a twin to our existing building. Press coverage on this appeared in
the January 2001 issue of Pro Sound News. Read it here: Manley Poised for
Expansion
In 2006 we invested heavily in infrastructure upgrades at
the factory especially in network and data management areas. Sales again grew,
this time a whopping 19% over 2005. People often ask us what's the spread
between our HIFI sales vs. our PRO STUDIO sales, and for 2006, HIFI sales
represented 18% of our total turnover and that number continues to grow. Manley
Labs grows every year.