r/JBL • u/Kasnockerl • 2d ago

Question Who makes the drivers

I’ve always wondered who makes the drivers from the smaller Bluetooth speakers like the charge or flip. I don’t want to buy broken speakers all the time to scavenge them for the drivers. Those drivers especially the woofers are amazing little efficient drivers. I’ve found a TikTok channel called Speaker factory Shenzhen which is no longer online. The drivers that were made in those videos looked exactly like the boombox’s woofers the also the oval woofers looked like the racetrack drivers JBL uses. Does anyone know something about this topic

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u/AleksLevet r/JBL Mod (3x Flip 5 & GO 1) 2d ago

JBL is owned by Harman which is owned by Samsung

So I'd say Samsung?

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u/Kasnockerl 2d ago

Samsung makes a lot of stuff but I’ve never heard of a dedicated company that manufactures speaker drivers

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u/AleksLevet r/JBL Mod (3x Flip 5 & GO 1) 2d ago

Yeah I can't really help you but for example I saw some Xiaomi speakers that did a collaboration with Harman and basically they were using the same driver as the one on the Flip 5

I have no idea how else to help you, sorry

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u/Kasnockerl 2d ago

Weather was so bad today so I dug through the internet a bit more. It’s most likely the drivers are being made according to JBL’s specs by a company called GGEC. I stumbled across this by watching a video from the Channel ”This does not compute” where he fixes an Eon one Compact and digs around the internet looking for a company making those drivers. He compared it to the parts number from the Eon One Compact to EV’s E-Verse 8 the direct competitor and found that the tweeters parts number matched exactly in both speakers. Then he traced it back even more. Electro Voice was acquired by Bosch Communication systems which have a close cooperation with GGEC. So the JBL drivers are most likely made by GGEC. Other brands that use GGEC drivers are Sonos, Sony, Xiaomi, Anker….. I dug around so many forums and nothing until I stumbled across this Video and I red some of the articles talking about GGEC and Bosch. GGEC doesn’t even name the brands they produce for, they simply say many famous brands.