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Serene Audio

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in British Columbia

Vancouver, BC maker of Talisman desktop speakers, hand-assembled from bamboo, a leather alternative, and brass at its own workshop and sold direct online. Founded by siblings Sia and Aida Rezaei; the original federal corporation was dissolved in 2019 and the site has had no new blog posts since 2016, though the store remains live.

Vancouver, BC CA · www.sereneaudio.com

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Serene Audio designs and hand-assembles Talisman bamboo-and-leather desktop speakers at its own workshop in Vancouver, BC, and sells them directly through its own site on the Canadian Foxy Commerce checkout platform. It was founded by siblings Sia and Aida Rezaei, whose federal corporation, Serene Audio Inc., was voluntarily dissolved in 2019; the site's blog and product page show no activity since 2016 and the Talisman is currently out of stock.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 verified

CA 100%

Corporations Canada's federal registry lists Serene Audio Inc. (752879-5), directors Siavash Rezaei and Aida Rezaei, both at a West Vancouver, BC address, matching the site's own account of sibling founders Sia and Aida Rezaei. The corporation was dissolved by its own filing on 2019-01-02 and no successor federal or BC provincial registration under this name turned up, so the registry verifies the founders' Canadian ownership of the original entity but current corporate status could not be confirmed.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's workshop page states it makes, assembles, tests, packages, and ships the Talisman speakers, including bamboo cutting, leather wrapping, and driver and amplifier mounting, entirely from its Vancouver workshop, with no other production site mentioned. Where the driver and amplifier electronics themselves are made is addressed under inputs, not here.

  • Speaker Workshop vendor_statement “To this day we make, assemble, test, package and ship the speakers from our workshop in Vancouver.”

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The company's only disclosed site is its Vancouver workshop and store, and Corporations Canada listed both directors, siblings Sia and Aida Rezaei, at the same West Vancouver, BC address. The site's own history page says Aida left a user-experience design career in San Francisco to join Sia in Vancouver, indicating both founders were Canada-based once the company was operating.

Inputs

24.0 inferred

CA 5% · other 95%

The vendor does not say where its bamboo, leather alternative, brass, driver, or amplifier components come from. Its own amplifier page describes initially buying from outside vendors and reaching out to ODM companies before designing the amplifier in house, a pattern typical of Asian contract manufacturing for boutique audio electronics, so materials are assumed mostly non-Canadian. The direct storefront runs on Foxy Commerce, a Canadian checkout platform, which is the only clearly Canadian input found.

  • Audio Amplifier vendor_statement “we were sourcing our amplifiers from outside. They were extremely good in terms of sound, but lacked the features we wanted. So we reached out to various ODM companies”
  • About Us | Foxy Commerce vendor_statement “bootstrapped Canadian-run small business”

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