HiFi manufacturers specialize in designing and producing high-fidelity audio equipment, including speakers, amplifiers, turntables, DACs, headphones, and more.
Fostex was founded in 1973 as a subsidiary of Foster Electric Company. Initially, its products were aimed exclusively at the Japanese market, which is unique to this day in that there are a large number of audiophiles who design and assemble acoustics themselves. Even today, most of Fostex’s profits come from the sale of high-quality full-range speakers. […] More
The young and very promising company FiiO was founded in China in 2007 and in less than 10 years has turned the world of portable Hi-Fi upside down. The main task that the company’s specialists set for themselves, to raise the reputation of the “Made in China” label to a completely new level, was completed in […] More
The famous French brand Focal JMlab has grown literally from scratch, embodying the success story of its founder, Jacques Maule, who became interested in Hi-Fi at the age of 15 and decided to devote his whole life to high-quality sound. At one time, Jacques Maule worked as chief engineer at Audax (a well-known manufacturer of dynamic […] More
The English company Exposure was founded in 1978 by John Farlow, who was both the owner of the company and the designer of operator consoles and Hi-Watt tube guitar amplifiers (they are highly valued to this day). The company currently produces high-quality electronics for stereo systems. Being a great expert in all the intricacies of the process […] More
The Elipson company was created in 1938 under the leadership of Joseph Leon and at first focused on professionals. Having achieved success in this area, Elipson decided to expand the circle of users of their products and offered the same high technology and beauty of performance to ordinary listeners. At the same time, innovative developments of spherical […] More
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
