The Art of Engineering, Precision Craftsmanship, and Pure Sound
For nearly four decades, Triad has set the standard for custom architectural audio through engineering ingenuity, US manufacturing, and a pioneering partnership with Dolby® Labs.
Made in the USA – Artistry Meets Innovation
For over 40 years, Triad’s iconic speakers have been proudly designed and built in the USA at our factory in Portland, Oregon. Having development, engineering, design, fabrication, and assembly under one roof allows us to optimize every aspect of the process and focus our attention on what matters most: spectacular sound. We innovate for the absolute best sound reproduction and curate visual designs to disappear or display proudly.
Built-to-order manufacturing means that every speaker is engineered for your specific installation. We don't have warehouses full of pre-made speakers waiting to be shipped. Instead, our expert craftspeople begin constructing your speaker only after your order is placed, using state-of-the-art machinery alongside meticulous hand assembly.
This lean approach enables us to offer bespoke wood finishes, custom paint matching, and tailored dimensions without compromise, giving custom integrators and interior designers total creative freedom.
Lean and Green Manufacturing
Following the Lean Manufacturing process made good business sense for Triad, and it aligned with environmental sustainability, which has always been our priority. It was a natural progression from reducing waste for economic efficiency to auditing everything we did to reduce our environmental impact.
The work environment at Triad is surprisingly quiet and dust-free, with over-the-top ventilation and filtration systems. We have robust recycling and wood scrap management programs. We don’t use harsh solvents, and all our adhesives and finishes are water-based.
"When you purchase Triad speakers, you can rest assured that you’ve made the best choice in terms of sonic reproduction, engineering, build quality, aesthetics, and sustainability."
The Art of Engineering – Acoustic Philosophy & Triad Voicing
In essence, a speaker is a musical instrument. Like any instrument you’re more accustomed to calling such, they generate sound waves through vibrations that pass through the air, allowing you to hear and feel the notes and tones they produce.
Our acoustic philosophy in engineering, designing, and building our speakers is to reproduce the music as faithfully as possible. Triad speakers are designed to have a completely natural and neutral sound, especially in the vocal range, with the higher frequencies as spacious and detailed as possible. A listener should not hear our speakers, but only the music they reproduce.
To achieve this end, we developed extremely clean-sounding, low-distortion sealed box speakers with a flat frequency response to not color the sound of the original recordings.
Precision Engineering & Rigorous Testing
At Triad, we’re passionate about precision engineering because that’s what it takes to build our exceptional-sounding speakers. Engineering ingenuity is at the core of everything we produce and drives our innovation.
We build our solidly braced enclosures like bank vaults, with asymmetrical bracing to break up internal standing waves. We use dense MDF cabinets and brass fittings for solid closures.
Every single speaker and component is thoroughly tested against published specifications in our anechoic chamber before installation.
Dolby® Atmos Home Development Partner
Triad’s reputation for exceptionally natural sound led to an exciting collaboration with Dolby® Labs. As a Dolby Labs Home Atmos Speaker Development Partner, Triad has co-developed cutting-edge technology to deliver stunningly lifelike sounds of Dolby Atmos®, DTS-X®, and Auro 3D®.
In partnership with Dolby®, Triad has created a radically new line of recessed and freestanding speakers capable of moving the sounds of individual objects around the listener, even overhead, for a genuinely immersive three-dimensional experience.
Bespoke Built-to-Order Audio Solutions
Triad offers complete customization for our entire line of built-to-order architectural, on-wall, and in-room loudspeakers.
Triad offers dozens of stock finishes and the ability to match any paint color or wood veneer perfectly. Cabinet dimensions can be customized to work around in-wall structural obstacles. With Triad, stating that the possibilities are endless is not hyperbole.
