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A Sound Deal.


The company that started by making loudspeakers for jazz-funksters Steely Dan has signed a $2.1 million lease for 55,563 square feet in Chatsworth.

M&K Sound Corp., which has become a speaker manufacturer trusted by filmmaker George Lucas Noun 1. George Lucas - United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944)
Lucas
, ran out of room at its original Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers.  home and will move its 90 employees on May 1 to 9351 Derring Ave., according to according to
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 Scott Caswell, a leasing agent with Delphi Business Properties. Caswell represented the speaker company and the landlord, Gary Siegel.

M&K needed new space, but could not find affordable accommodations on the Westside, according to M&K Executive Vice President Chuck Back.

The company was born in 1974 when Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan asked Ken Kreisel to build them a dual-driver subwoofer A speaker that reproduces the lower end of the audio spectrum. A subwoofer system may include a crossover circuit which switches frequencies at approximately 100Hz and under to the subwoofer, while passing the rest of the signal to the main speakers.  for production of their "Pretzel Logic" album.

The privately held company privately held company

A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly.
 designs and builds high-performance loudspeakers for the commercial market, but specializes in cutting-edge technology for multi-channel recordings.
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Title Annotation:M&K Sound Corp. leases office building in Chatsworth, CA
Comment:A Sound Deal.(M&K Sound Corp. leases office building in Chatsworth, CA)
Author:KEOUGH, CHRISTOPHER
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Apr 23, 2001
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