HiFi manufacturers specialize in designing and producing high-fidelity audio equipment, including speakers, amplifiers, turntables, DACs, headphones, and more.
For most, Switzerland means reliable banks, luxury watches, famous cheese and popular Alpine resorts, but for people interested in Hi-End class acoustic systems, the name PIEGA will certainly come to mind when this country is mentioned. The company’s headquarters are located in the city of Horgen in a quiet corner located on the picturesque shores […] More
Primaluna Audio is a small Dutch company that, having entered the market in 2005, managed to make high-end tube amplifiers accessible to Europeans, and then to audiophiles everywhere. Its founder, Herman van den Dungen, invested all his 30 years of experience in the field of High-End equipment into the new company Primaluna. For many years he […] More
Philips & Co. was founded in 1891 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, to meet the growing demand for light bulbs that arose in the wake of the industrial introduction of electricity. The Philips family, which was destined to found a “corporation in its own name,” was quite successful in business even before that significant year of 1891. Although […] More
Psb Speakers is a Canadian manufacturer of speaker systems since 1972, for both home and professional use, with recognizable design and unsurpassed sound. For those familiar with the acronym PSB (Paul & Sue Barton), it may well stand for great sound. For many years, countless people in the audio industry, both casual and professional, have associated PSB […] More
Matthew Polk and George Klopfer founded their company, Polk Audio, in 1972. Their goal was excellent quality speaker systems that were affordable to the average consumer. Polk Audio was one of the first to actively use advanced scientific developments, which allowed them to soon create unique acoustic speakers and achieve recognition in the global audio market. They began […] More
The American company Parasound was founded in 1981 by experts in the audio industry, who set themselves the goal of creating high-quality electronics for playing music recordings at home, and in the mid-1990s, developments also affected cinema. The level achieved in real products was so high that it even satisfied the requirements of the professional audio […] More
PS Audio is an American company with almost forty years of history, which has been present on the audio market since 1973. The pair of letters for the name of the new company (PS Audio) was simply taken from the names of its founding fathers: P – Paul McGowan, S – Stan Warren. Stan Warren left […] More
PMC was founded by Peter Thomas and Adrian Loader in 1990. And today, this manufacturer of professional acoustic systems is a leader everywhere: from television broadcasting and film sound editing to music recordings of all kinds. PMC acoustics can be found in the most reputable recording studios, such as Emil Berliner or Teldax, which produce tracks […] More
In the seventies of the last century, a new company called Paradigm appeared in the Canadian city of Toronto. Two talented engineers, Scott Bagby, who became the chief developer, and Jerry Vander Maerel, who took on the role of marketer, have been running it continuously for more than 30 years. A major event in the history of […] More
Pro-Ject Audio Systems was founded by Heinz Lichtenegger in 1990 in Vienna (Austria) with one idea: to produce audiophile quality Hi-Fi components at an affordable price. Heinz believes that analog audio reproduction is the best way to listen to music at the highest quality. Pro-Ject Audio Systems, inspired by the concept of developing analog devices against the […] More
The founder of the international corporation Pioneer Nozomu Matsumoto began by assembling speakers in his own garage. Thanks to these activities, the son of a Christian missionary from Koba was able to expand the audience of listeners to evangelical sermons, and in 1931, open his own business. However, Matsumoto’s works in the field of physics and commercial […] More
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
