Since Brian and Michael Barr founded CAT in 1990, our systems became the choice of top recording engineers, “A” list musicians, athletes, actors, producers, directors, and discerning clients worldwide.
We have designed, engineered, commissioned, and calibrated CAT systems in elite recording studios, home theaters, outdoor venues, mega yachts, and large-scale private aircraft throughout the world.
The mission of California Audio Technology, Inc has always been a highly engineered technical solution to provide the best audio quality for any given environment. As an engineering and materials driven company, CAT pioneered merging audiophile sound quality with concert level SPL (sound pressure level) capability, delivering truly uncompromised audio performance to the most discerning clientele and their families. This focus has allowed CAT to become the most renowned high performance audio systems in the Mega-yacht market today, providing audiophile performance “band and DJ ready” systems that are built to withstand the harshest outdoor marine environments. For over 35 years, CAT has provided our clients and dealers/integrators unrivalled acoustic performance products, system design services, custom loudspeakers for all environments, and system calibration/commissioning ensuring the absolute best performance audio systems in the world.
During its long history, in addition to its in-house customization, CAT has been involved in many of the world’s most creative aesthetically designed systems, working with the world’s most renowned interior designers, architects, industrial designers and client representative teams. CAT excelled at its role as the audio performance custom designer and manufacturer, integrating with other artisans for much of the industrial design and craftmanship.
Brian Barr, along with an investment team, acquired the California Audio Technology (CAT) name and marks, and created a new corporation January 7, 2026. This new corporation will operate as California Audio Technology (CAT), with Brian Barr as President and CEO. This new CAT will have a revamped vision, creating a lifestyle product line, merging the world’s best industrial design and artistry with the superior technical performance the world has come to expect from CAT. In addition to the new ultra-high performance standard product line, CAT will provide in-house bespoke solutions to their UHNWI clientele, utilizing their production team.
The original California Audio Technology Inc., will continue as Michael Barr Audio Technology (MBA). MBA will provide the same products and custom engineering services the world has come to expect from our team. As MBA will continue the original California Audio Technology, Inc under the MBA name, it will be providing all service and existing warranty for CAT systems sold by California Audio Technology, Inc. prior to the rebranding.
MBA will provide acoustic design and loudspeaker manufacturing for the new CAT products. MBA and CAT endeavor to provide solutions that are 100% compatible with each other. It is the expectation that a system could be implemented as a hybrid MBA/CAT system and maintain seamless integration and identical sonic signature between product lines.
For more information about Michael Barr Audio Technology, please find the new website here.