HiFi manufacturers specialize in designing and producing high-fidelity audio equipment, including speakers, amplifiers, turntables, DACs, headphones, and 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
The name of Onkyo Corporation is formed from two Japanese words: On meaning sound, and Kyo meaning harmony. It is said that at the beginning of his activity, the founder of the company hired only people with an ear for music, because he wanted everyone who creates new components to be as devoted to music and […] 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
Few companies in the world of Hi-Fi Audio can boast such a rich history as Marantz. In 2013, the company celebrated its 60th anniversary. In order to understand how this brand managed to gain and maintain such a unique position in the market – the adoration of connoisseurs – audiophiles and the recognition of ordinary people “on […] More
Music Hall LLC was founded in April 1985 by Roy Hall. Initially, it was decided that the company would specialize in the production, import and distribution of high-end, high-quality products with reasonable prices. Music Hall players implement many non-standard solutions that were developed under the leadership of the company’s founder, Roy Hall. The first “vinyl” players under the […] More
