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Manufacturers

HiFi manufacturers specialize in designing and producing high-fidelity audio equipment, including speakers, amplifiers, turntables, DACs, headphones, and more.

Piega
Audio

Piega

For most, Switzerland means reliable banks, luxury watches, famous cheese and popular Alpine resorts, but for people interested in Hi-End class acoustic…

6 min readFeb 8, 2024
PrimaLuna
Audio

PrimaLuna

Primaluna Audio is a small Dutch company that, having entered the market in 2005, managed to make high-end tube amplifiers accessible to…

3 min readFeb 8, 2024
Philips
Audio

Philips

Philips & Co. was founded in 1891 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, to meet the growing demand for light bulbs that arose in the…

12 min readFeb 8, 2024
PSB
Audio

PSB

Psb Speakers is a Canadian manufacturer of speaker systems since 1972, for both home and professional use, with recognizable design and unsurpassed…

4 min readFeb 8, 2024
Polk Audio
Audio

Polk Audio

Matthew Polk and George Klopfer founded their company, Polk Audio, in 1972. Their goal was excellent quality speaker systems that were affordable to…

6 min readFeb 8, 2024
Parasound
Audio

Parasound

The American company Parasound was founded in 1981 by experts in the audio industry, who set themselves the goal of creating high-quality…

4 min readFeb 8, 2024
PS Audio
Audio

PS Audio

PS Audio is an American company with almost forty years of history, which has been present on the audio market since 1973. The…

3 min readFeb 8, 2024
PMC
Audio

PMC

PMC was founded by Peter Thomas and Adrian Loader in 1990. And today, this manufacturer of professional acoustic systems is a leader everywhere:…

2 min readFeb 8, 2024
Paradigm
Audio

Paradigm

In the seventies of the last century, a new company called Paradigm appeared in the Canadian city of Toronto. Two talented engineers, Scott…

4 min readFeb 8, 2024
Pro-Ject Audio Systems
Audio

Pro-Ject Audio Systems

Pro-Ject Audio Systems was founded by Heinz Lichtenegger in 1990 in Vienna (Austria) with one idea: to produce audiophile quality Hi-Fi components…

6 min readFeb 8, 2024
Pioneer
Audio

Pioneer

The founder of the international corporation Pioneer Nozomu Matsumoto began by assembling speakers in his own garage. Thanks to these activities, the son…

8 min readFeb 8, 2024
Panasonic
Audio

Panasonic

The future president of one of the world's largest corporations, Konosuke Matsushita, began his career as a bicycle salesman in Osaka. Then the…

14 min readFeb 8, 2024
Ortofon
Audio

Ortofon

The company's history began in 1918: engineers Arnold Paulson and Axel Petersen teamed up to develop audio equipment for a new field…

4 min readFeb 8, 2024
Onkyo
Audio

Onkyo

The name of Onkyo Corporation is formed from two Japanese words: On meaning sound, and Kyo meaning harmony. It is said that at…

9 min readFeb 8, 2024
Nakamichi
Audio

Nakamichi

Etsuro Nakamichi, a radio engineer in the Japanese Navy during World War II, founded Nakamichi Research in 1948. In 1957, Nakamichi released…

7 min readFeb 8, 2024
Naim
Audio

Naim

Naim Audio has always been considered a special, iconic company, and it retains this status to this day. History itself also contributes to…

10 min readFeb 8, 2024
NAD
Audio

NAD

The NAD company was founded in the UK (London) in 1972 by Martin Borisch, as an association of seven large European distributors…

5 min readFeb 8, 2024
Mission
Audio

Mission

Mission was founded in the UK in 1977 and has always been recognized as one of the leading companies in the field…

3 min readFeb 8, 2024
Marshall
Audio

Marshall

The history of Marshall begins in England in the 60s of the last century, when Jim Marshall assembled his first amplifier based…

13 min readFeb 8, 2024
Mytek
Audio

Mytek

Mytek Digital was founded in New York in 1992 by Polish native Michal Jurewicz. At the time of the founding of the company,…

2 min readFeb 8, 2024
Mark Levinson
Audio

Mark Levinson

Mark Levinson is an American private company, a subsidiary of Harman International Industries. The company specializes in the development of Hi-End audio…

6 min readFeb 8, 2024
Musical Fidelity
Audio

Musical Fidelity

Musical Fidelity is a very well-known and popular English company that grew out of a garage cooperative. MF products are quite extensive: amplifiers,…

5 min readFeb 8, 2024
Marantz
Audio

Marantz

Few companies in the world of Hi-Fi Audio can boast such a rich history as Marantz. In 2013, the company celebrated its 60th…

9 min readFeb 8, 2024
Music Hall
Audio

Music Hall

Music Hall LLC was founded in April 1985 by Roy Hall. Initially, it was decided that the company would specialize in the production,…

3 min readFeb 8, 2024