Marcus Carlsen

The creation of the Esoteric brand in 1987 was predetermined by history itself; it could not fail to appear. The vast experience accumulated by TEAC and TASCAM over several decades, and the desire for excellence, inevitably led them to rise to the top. Esoteric is the embodiment of everything that is great about TEAC and TASCAM: a […] More

Emotiva is a young US company that develops and designs its products (amplifiers, speakers, processors, preamps, etc.) at its facilities in Tennessee. Flagship products such as the new XMC-1 AV processor are manufactured locally in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, while other products are manufactured by the company’s most efficient partners in China and other countries. The Emotiva […] More

The Electrocompaniet company began its history in the 70s of the last century in Norway, which in itself is unusual – at that time the country could not be classified as a center of a developed electronics industry, especially in the field of sound reproduction. But the fact remains that Electrocompaniet amplifiers have found their place […] More

The name of the ELAC company speaks for itself – Electroacustic, and today this company is one of the most famous and oldest manufacturers of speaker systems. However, the company has come a long way before producing the speaker systems themselves.  The German company ELAC has a long history and time-tested tradition of maintaining the highest quality […] More

Despite the gigantic abundance of vinyl players, which are often futuristic structures made of glass and metal, there are companies that are still true to tradition and occupy their rightful place in the sun without the help of technical outrageousness. One of them is the legendary DUAL, whose history is probably one of the longest among […] More

The name of the company Defunc (Sweden) comes from a combination of two words: DEsign + FUNCtion (design + function). The result of this approach? Stylish devices with great sound! In the 1980s, the choice between a portable audio device (a boombox) and a home stereo system was easy. They were very different from each other in appearance, […] More

Devialet is a French company based in Paris and founded in 2007. The company’s history began in 2004, when Pierre-Emmanuel Calmel, who was working in Nortel’s research and development laboratory, decided to leave his job in order to devote himself full time to working on the first prototype of a completely new type of hybrid audio […] More

A company striving for future heights always takes into account the achievements of its past. This is the principle of Dynaudio. Each speaker system of this brand is an example of elegant finishing and excellent quality. Dynaudio’s history – not that long by the way – also provides food for thought. Wilfried Ehrenholz, the founder of Dynaudio, sought […] More

You can produce acoustics in two ways: using other people’s spare parts, then assembling your own speakers, or you can do everything yourself under one roof. Both for yourself and for others. The family business Davis Acoustics has been operating precisely according to the second principle for almost three decades. And more than successfully. It was all started […] More

Denon was founded in 1910, and in 1951 became the first Japanese audio company to sell long-playing records. In the early 1970s, Denon developed and manufactured the world’s first practical digital PCM recording device, and in 1972 released the world’s first digitally recorded long-playing records. Over the years, Denon has built an impressive reputation for itself, gaining […] More

The history of Dali began in the basement of the home of Peter Lyngdorff, a famous audio engineer and businessman. It was he who is still the main shareholder of the company, and it was at his instigation that the Danish engineers, who cut their teeth on the production of American Cerwin Vega speakers for the […] More