Simaudio

The vendor states MOON by Simaudio 'has remained independent since 1980' and calls itself an independent Canadian manufacturer, and a 2017 Radio-Canada profile names Louis Lemire as the company's president rather than any foreign parent. No acquisition, private equity stake, or outside investor turned up in any source. The Registraire des entreprises du Quebec, which would hold the definitive ownership record for this Quebec-incorporated company, returned HTTP 403 on every attempt (Cloudflare bot protection), and Corporations Canada's federal registry has no matching corporation, so the ownership share here rests on vendor and press statements rather than a registry filing.

• About MOON by Simaudio | Canadian High-End Audio Since 1980 vendor_statement “MOON by Simaudio has remained independent since 1980.”
• Le meilleur amplificateur du monde est-il fabriqué à Boucherville? press “Louis Lemire, président de Simaudio”
• Electronics: Moon by Simaudio | Made in CA directory “Canadian Owned: Yes”

The vendor states every MOON product is designed and hand-assembled at its own facility in Boucherville, Quebec, keeping engineering, assembly, and quality control in one location, and a 2017 Radio-Canada profile of the flagship MOON 888 amplifier confirms it is 'entierement fabrique au Quebec, a Boucherville.' No secondary manufacturing site was found in any source.

• About MOON by Simaudio | Canadian High-End Audio Since 1980 vendor_statement “Every MOON product is hand-assembled in Boucherville, Quebec, Canada.”
• Le meilleur amplificateur du monde est-il fabriqué à Boucherville? press “Le MOON 888, qui est entièrement fabriqué au Québec, à Boucherville”

The company's design, assembly, warehouse, and head-office staff are concentrated at its Boucherville, Quebec headquarters and factory, per its contact and careers pages. Its history page describes launching MOON International in 2018 with offices in France and the United Kingdom and a distribution hub in the Netherlands to support European and Asian dealers, so a minority of staff is estimated to be outside Canada; the exact headcount split is not disclosed.

• Company Information - MOON by Simaudio vendor_statement “1345 Newton Rd. Boucherville, Quebec, J4B 5H2 CANADA”
• Careers | MOON by Simaudio vendor_statement “MOON products are designed and hand-assembled in Boucherville, Québec, Canada”
• MOON by Simaudio History | Canadian High-End Audio Since 1980 vendor_statement “MOON expanded its international presence with the launch of MOON International, created to support the brand's growth across Europe and Asia. With offices in France and the United Kingdom, and a distribution hub in the Netherlands”

Current product pages do not name component suppliers, describing only a proprietary 'MDE-1' digital engine, but the vendor's own history page repeatedly credits earlier MOON products with 'a custom proprietary toroidal transformer design,' suggesting transformers and chassis are built in-house in Boucherville. The same history page names the digital chips used in a late-1990s/early-2000s product as Burr-Brown, Crystal, and Zoran parts, all US semiconductor makers, and consumer audio electronics generally source ICs and passives from the US and Asia, so the split here is an estimate weighted toward imported electronic components.

• MOON by Simaudio History | Canadian High-End Audio Since 1980 vendor_statement “A custom proprietary toroidal transformer design with lower magnetic, electrical and thermal loss”
• MOON by Simaudio History | Canadian High-End Audio Since 1980 vendor_statement “Four Burr Brown PCM1732U 24-bit/96kHz DACs”