Legacy Audio

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Legacy Audio

Type	Private
Founded	1983
Headquarters	Springfield, IL, United States
Key people	Bill Dudleston - President & Founder, Chris Daniels - Engineer
Industry	High end audio, Home audio
Products	Loudspeakers, Audio electronics
Website	Legacyaudio.com

Legacy Audio is a manufacturer of home high-end audio equipment. The company produces a full line of passive speakers. Its Classic, Focus and Studio lines have been described as "acclaimed".^[1]

Legacy Audio and its founder, Bill Dudleston, have been cited in publications such as Billboard, The Wall Street Journal, Stereophile, The Absolute Sound, Home Theater Magazine, and the Robb Report.^[2]

Legacy has produced speakers for Arista, Sony, Universal Music Group and archival organizations such as the Stradivari Violin Society. Multi-Grammy award winning producers Rick Rubin, Antonio L.A. Reid, and renowned mastering engineer, Herb Powers, have utilized and publicly touted the Legacy designs as assisting in producing artists Sheryl Crowe, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mariah Carey, and Usher. Re-mastering engineer Steve Hoffman has utilized the Legacy speakers on re-issues of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.^{[citations needed]}