The Company History

Arnscott Was founded in 1982 by Arnold Edwards. Mr. Edwards came from a company called Radio Speakers of Canada(RSC). RSC was a great company, supplying quality products into the commercial, Music and OEM industries. Company focus changed and customers were not being serviced, this rubbed against all that Mr. Edwards believed in, it was at this point that he made a choice to leave and start Arnscott Electronics Inc. Within 2 years Mr. Edwards son, Scott, joined the company. His addition to the company allowed it to directly manufacture products that interested customers, changing the company overall dependency on distribution, to more of a manufacturing base.

From these simple beginnings the company quickly moved into the Life Safety markets, producing Canada's first Life Safety Speaker Devices. Arnscott now manufactures more than half of Canada's devices for this market. With a complete R&D department, and the most advanced computerized test equipment, we are moving ahead to produce still more leading edge, high quality products.

Over the last 20 years, Arnscott has been developing it's commercial sound product line. We now market our commercial products under the Brand Name of AEG(Arnscott Electronics Group) Which accounts for the products that Arnscott Manufactures, with additional third party product lines.

AEG manufactures a complete line of commercial sound products such as 4-1/2", 8" and 12" loudspeakers, line matching transformers, ceiling and wall baffles and back boxes, attenuators, paging horns....and many more items. Arnscott currently manufactures about 80% of what it sells, some sold through our distribution, some sold through other distributors, and the balance sold through OEM accounts.

In 1999 AEG started its own fabrication and assembly of equipment racks and accessories. We produce wooden and metal racks, along with all the accessories like shelves, drawers and a variety of panels.

In 2001 AEG started manufacturing it's first speaker strobe device for the fire safety market. This quad candela strobe is the first in Canada available with a syncronized system.

2002 saw the introduction of 4 new products, primarily designed for the new Toronto International Airport. An 8" higher powered coaxial speaker, a 5" mid powered coaxial loudspeaker, an all metal 15w paging horn, and a reentrant type horn mounted in a zinc diecast vandal resistant housing, that is small enough to fit onto a 4" square electrical box.

2003, Arnscott Introduced the first Canadian ULC listed 4" clean room fire alarm speaker.

2005, Arnscott introduces the industries first 150 watt 70 volt audio attenuator, with and without over-ride functionality. We also introduces our first metal wall rack, complete with either all steel or plexi-glas front door. The side panels are removable, and an optional Quick install cradle is available.

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