Bluesound
Canadian-owned · made overseas · based in Ontario
Pickering, Ontario wireless hi-res streaming speakers and NODE players from Bluesound International, a division of the privately held Lenbrook Group, designed in Ontario, assembled overseas, and sold direct plus through Amazon and authorized dealers.
Pickering, ON CA · www.bluesound.com
Bluesound is the wireless streaming speaker and NODE player brand of Bluesound International, a division of Lenbrook Industries Limited, a privately held company headquartered in Pickering, Ontario since its 1978 founding by David S. Simmonds and now led by president and CEO Gordon A. Simmonds. Its products are designed by Lenbrook's Pickering team but manufactured overseas, chiefly in Asia, alongside sibling brands NAD Electronics and PSB Speakers. Bluesound sells direct from its Shopify-based storefront and through Amazon in Canada and the US, plus authorized dealers found through its locator.
Factors
Ownership
100.0 reportedCA 100%
Lenbrook.com describes the Lenbrook Group as a privately held Canada-based company, founded in Pickering in 1978 by David S. Simmonds and led today by president and CEO Gordon A. Simmonds, with no acquisition, parent, or outside investor found in searches. Corporations Canada shows no federal registration for Lenbrook Industries Limited, so it appears to be provincially incorporated in Ontario, and the Ontario Business Registry's public search blocked automated access, so this rests on the vendor's own statement rather than a registry filing.
- Homepage - The Lenbrook Group of Companies vendor_statement “The Lenbrook Group is a privately held Canada-based owner of brand development and distribution interests in residential and commercial audio and communications technologies.”
- Homepage - The Lenbrook Group of Companies vendor_statement “Established in 1978 by Canadian electronics industry veteran David S. Simmonds, The Lenbrook Group of Companies began as a national rep and wholesale distributor of electronics parts, audio equipment, and two-way radio products.”
- Bluesound - Wireless speakers and components for music streaming vendor_statement “A division of Lenbrook Industries Limited”
- Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada - Corporations - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada registry “0 results were found”
Manufacturing
20.0 inferredother 100%
Bluesound's own site does not state where products are made. Madeinca.ca lists Bluesound as manufactured overseas, and wifihifi.com reports that sibling brand NAD, developed by the same Lenbrook Pickering team, has design and engineering done in Canada while many products are manufactured in Asia; no Bluesound-specific manufacturing statement was found, so the near-total overseas share is inferred rather than vendor-confirmed.
- Electronics: Bluesound 🍁 | Made in CA directory “Manufactured in: Overseas”
- Want to Buy Canadian? Here’s a List of Canadian Tech Brands press “While many NAD products are manufactured today in Asia, the design and engineering team are 100% Canadian run.”
People
72.5 reportedCA 75% · other 10% · US 15%
Lenbrook's careers page lists only its Pickering, Ontario office, and LinkedIn shows the same Pickering headquarters for its roughly 190-person Lenbrook Group workforce. Lenbrook's About Us page notes 200-plus team members "across key geographies" and names Lenbrook Americas and Lenbrook Asia subsidiaries for sales and distribution outside Canada, so a minority of staff is assumed to sit in the US and Asia even though no country-by-country breakdown was published.
- Careers - The Lenbrook Group of Companies vendor_statement “633 Granite Court, Pickering, Ontario Canada, L1W 3K1”
- Homepage - The Lenbrook Group of Companies vendor_statement “Headquartered in Pickering, just east of Toronto, the Lenbrook Group accesses globally-minded talent and global markets, with 200+ team members cross key geographies.”
- The Lenbrook Group of Companies | LinkedIn other “51-200 employees”
Inputs
14.0 inferredCA 5% · other 75% · US 20%
The NODE's DAC is a SABRE ES9039Q2M from ESS Technology, a US chipmaker, and the storefront runs on Shopify, a Canadian platform, but neither Bluesound nor Lenbrook discloses where speaker drivers, enclosures, or circuit boards are sourced. With final assembly placed in Asia, most materials are assumed to come from the same region, so the split is an estimate.
- NODE - Performance Music Streamer – Bluesound vendor_statement “ESS ES9039Q2M SABRE® DAC”
- Bluesound - Wireless speakers and components for music streaming other “Shopify.shop = "fiy1b0-u9.myshopify.com"”
Where to buy
- Direct 57.6
- Amazon.ca · Amazon.ca 43.2
- US retailer · Amazon.com 34.6
Found via
- wifihifi.com 2026-09-07