Audio

The future president of one of the world’s largest corporations, Konosuke Matsushita, began his career as a bicycle salesman in Osaka. Then the young man was lured away by the owner of a nearby shop who sold electrical appliances. The year was 1918, and the first light bulbs, irons and other ingenious devices, which were still a […] More

The company’s history began in 1918: engineers Arnold Paulson and Axel Petersen teamed up to develop audio equipment for a new field – sound cinema. The company was then called Electrical Phono Film Company, and their goal was to create the world’s first system for scoring films, that is, to come up with a way to […] More

Etsuro Nakamichi, a radio engineer in the Japanese Navy during World War II, founded Nakamichi Research in 1948. In 1957, Nakamichi released the first Fidela reel-to-reel tape recorder for the Japanese market. In 1969, Nakamichi became the first Japanese company to license Dolby B. During the 1960s and first half of the 1970s, the Nakamichi brand […] More

Naim Audio has always been considered a special, iconic company, and it retains this status to this day. History itself also contributes to its image: the headquarters and production are located in Salisbury, the very heart of England, not far from Stonehenge, and from the office windows you can see the famous Gothic cathedral of the […] More

The NAD company was founded in the UK (London) in 1972 by Martin Borisch, as an association of seven large European distributors concerned about the lack of simple audio devices with high-quality sound (Hi-Fi class) on the market with really demanded performance characteristics and accessible to a wide range of audiophiles and music lovers ( […] More

Mission was founded in the UK in 1977 and has always been recognized as one of the leading companies in the field of audio design and in the application of new technologies to create excellent and undeniably praiseworthy loudspeaker systems for every market sector. In 1978, Mission Electronics launched the 770 loudspeaker. This revolutionary product featured […] More

The history of Marshall begins in England in the 60s of the last century, when Jim Marshall assembled his first amplifier based on the then famous American Fender model. The model was called JTM45 – after the first letters of the name of Jim and his son (Jim and Terry Marshall), and the number 45 meant […] More

Mytek Digital was founded in New York in 1992 by Polish native Michal Jurewicz. At the time of the founding of the company, he worked in one of the leading recording studios in New York – Skyline and at the same time was developing his own DACs and ADCs for work in the studio. His works not […] More

Mark Levinson is an American private company, a subsidiary of Harman International Industries. The company specializes in the development of Hi-End audio equipment: audio amplifiers, preamplifiers, digital audio processors and other audio components for audiophiles. Headquarters are located in Elkhart, Indiana. Founded in 1972, the company of the same name Mark Levinson has in a […] More

Musical Fidelity is a very well-known and popular English company that grew out of a garage cooperative. MF products are quite extensive: amplifiers, CD players, DACs. Moreover, the company’s motto “Made by fans for fans” promotes a non-standard (according to MF) approach to design and sound. It is impossible to disagree with this – it really is so. True, […] More