HiFi manufacturers specialize in designing and producing high-fidelity audio equipment, including speakers, amplifiers, turntables, DACs, headphones, and more.
The first £99 Creek CAS4040 amplifier hit the UK market in 1982 to controversy. On the one hand, they admired the quality of its sound, but on the other hand, they did not believe that such a young company could successfully compete with already recognized brands and reduce prices. However, the author of the review of the […] More
The American company Audeze (“o-dizy”) was founded in 2010 by two film industry employees – Alex Rosson and Sankar Thiagasamudram, who were involved in the technical side of creating film soundtracks. They decided to use flexible printed circuits that were specially developed for NASA. Audeze are high-end headphones that provide the most accurate sound reproduction available today. They […] More
The history of Beyerdynamic is based on a beautiful legend about the friendship of Eugen Beyer and Georg Neumann. Legend has it that one day these two great men disagreed about what the best microphone in the world should be. Bayer insisted that the microphone must be dynamic. Neumann – capacitor. At some point, they got tired of arguing […] More
The company’s name is derived from two words: “accurate” + “phase”, which emphasizes the paramount importance of accurately reproducing the phase characteristics of the signal (measures for this are taken in both players and amplifiers). But purely commercial brands do not operate with such concepts at all. Accuphase, on the contrary, knows a lot about measurements, and […] More
COWON was founded in 1995 in South Korea. The company’s first product was Jet-Audio, a software for processing and playing sound, which later won prestigious awards from CNET, ZDNet, TUCOWS. The first major customers of its products were such well-known IT companies as Fujitsu and NEC, which in 1999-2000. equipped their PCs with Jet-Audio software. In 2000, the […] More
Today, Astell&Kern is the standard for high-quality sound that you can take with you and place in your pocket. The portable sound that generations have dreamed of. The price tag for players of this brand may seem somewhat unreasonable, but all doubts are dispelled already from the first chords of your favorite album, downloaded in FLAC format. Listen […] More
Founded in 1950 by George Cabass, the company inherited not only the name of the creator, but also his spirit. George Cabasse, himself from the world of music, was gifted with a special talent, probably a gift from his ancestors, associated with the first violin made by Cabasse in 1740. Five generations of craftsmen followed him, following […] More
Atoll Electronique was founded in 1997 in France by brothers Stéphane & Emmanuel Dubreuil. Throughout their adult lives, music was their family hobby, which eventually led the brothers to the idea of creating their own brand for the production of equipment. A significant factor for this was also the fact that Stefan worked for several years at […] More
The Canadian consortium Sonic Frontiers International brings together several well-known brands in the audio world, including Paradigm and Anthem. The Anthem brand produces top-level electronic equipment for equipping home theaters – AV processors, AV receivers and multi-channel power amplifiers. All Anthem equipment is not only designed, but also made in Canada, which is becoming increasingly rare these […] More
In the 1950s, Dr. Amar Bose was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an ordinary music lover. To reward himself for his good studies, after much deliberation, he purchased a new stereo system for his home in the hope that it could convey the realism of live music. Despite the high performance of these […] More
The company’s history began in 1962 in Tokyo, when Hideo Matsushita began producing cartridges for vinyl players, and he distributed them to large manufacturers of musical equipment. A year later, production expanded noticeably and Audio-Techica moved to spacious premises. After this, the AT-5 MM cartridge and AT-1001 tonearm entered the market. In 1965, the Industrial Science and Technology […] More
Canton’s history will impress everyone. Today Canton is a leading manufacturer of speaker systems in the European market. Canton acoustic systems are high-quality acoustics that have become world leaders in a short period of time. Canton was born in Germany almost forty years ago, in 1972, thanks to the efforts of its four founders – […] More
