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3-D Squared
3-D Squared Inc. specializes in creating acoustic friendly prints featuring original designs, movie posters and panoramic photographs. The prints are secured around acoustic panels resulting in an aesthetically pleasing product that enhances the acoustic integrity of any Home Theater or...
3M
3M is a company more people think of for sticky notes or scotch tape however the conglomerate makes a full line of accessories and films for video, laptop and HDTV use under their Vikuity line. Some of their films reportedly...
AAA-Audio
AAA-Audio is a direct reseller of audiophile electronics from Asia (but seem to be sold in the U.S. through the Boston Area). Some of the sub-brands include Dussun, Original, XLH and O sound racks....
AAD Loudspeakers
Founded by Phil Jones, AAD designs a range of loudspeakers for home applications to PA models. AAD is better known as a behind-the-scenes (OEM) maker of audiophile speakers for some of the bigger electronics companies that have recently added speakers...
Acapella Audio Arts
Acapella Audio Arts invented the spherical horn, and offers a number of different handcrafted, horn-based and conventional dynamic loudspeaker products and accessories....
Accent Speaker Technology, Ltd.
Accent Speaker Technology was once called Nola Loudspeakers. They are very large format audiophile speakers that unlike many in their class, enjoy some mainstream distribution at retailers like Lyric Hifi in New York City....
Accuphase
Known for their robust designs and champagne faceplates, Accuphase, founded in Japan, offers a big, bold, no compromise approach to audio and home theater similar to McIntosh....
Acoustat
Founded in the USA in 1972 by Jim Stricker, Acoustat specializes in electrostatic loudspeaker designs....
Acoustic Art
Acoustic Art produces unique works of art that double as acoustic treatments. In creating its products, the company creates its own original material as well as incorporates those supplied by its customers....
Acoustic Arts
Based in the German town of Lauffen am Neckar, Acoustic Arts offers a complete range of high end audio and home theater products from electronics to cables to loudspeakers, all made from the ground up in Germany utilizing world-class design...
Acoustic Energy
Founded in 1987, Acoustic Energy made its name with its AE1 Monitor Loudspeaker featuring metal cone technology, luxurious cabinetry, and robust, elegant pedestal. In late 2008, Acoustic Energy is making another push to re-establish themselves as a player in the...
Acoustic Innovations
Acoustic Innovations is a maker and designer of home theater interiors that include acoustical treatments, fabric walls and more....
Acoustic Research (AR)
Founded in 1952, Acoustic Research pioneered the career of loudspeaker designer Henry Kloss, as well as the patented "acoustic suspension" loudspeaker design. AR went on to dominate the loudspeaker market for the next twenty years. Acoustic Research is known for...
Acoustic Sciences (ASC)
Acoustic Sciences or ASC are an audiophile staple in the world of acoustical treatments. Their ASC Tube Traps, while a bold statement in a non-dedicated listening room, can drastically improve the performance of an audio system. They also make a...
Acoustic Smart Home Theater Interiors
Acoustic Smart Home Theater Interiors design and make home theater fabric walls, acoustical treatments and other accessories to build out complete media rooms and dedicated home theaters. Acoustic Smart Home Theaters also have a full like of seating including the...
Acoustic Transducer Company (ATC)
England's Acoustic Transducer Company, founded in 1974 by chief designer Billy Woodman, has produced one of the world's most acclaimed and longstanding lines of professional audio loudspeakers. ATC designs and manufactures all of its drivers in-house, and features both active...
Acoustic Zen
Robert Lee and Acoustic Zen specialize in advancing the art and science of sonic transmission via its high end cable products, using de-classified military technologies relating to underwater, aircraft, and surveillance....
Acoustics First
Acoustic First is a maker of industrial grade acoustical dampening, blocking and absorption materials for pro audio and home audio use....
Acurus
A sister brand to Aragon under the Mondial Design group, Acurus produced affordable high-end A/V preamplifiers, amplifiers, and home theater processors. Eventually bought by Klipsch and just recently sold to two former Klipsch employees who plan to relaunch the brand...
Adcom
A pioneer of the affordable high-end audio genre, Adcom brought the philosophy of efficient, no-frills, high-current designs to the masses. After starting in phono cartridges, Adcom made its splash in the audio world with its GFA-1 Amplifier (with 'GF' standing...
ADS
ADS is a speaker company best known for their car audio products but in the 1970's and 1980's they successfully sold mid-priced audio speakers. ADS is best known for their "plate" care stereo speakers....
Advent
Founded by Henry Kloss in 1967, Advent, although making quite a few well-regarded loudspeakers, actually made more of a historical impact with its cassette decks and projection televisions. On the heels of Kloss' contribution to Dolby noise reduction, Advent introduced...
Aerial Acoustics
Founded and run today by engineer Michael Kelly, this high end loudspeaker brand enjoys success in the upper-high-end niche along with the likes of THIEL and Martin Logan. Aerial's breakout speaker was their Aerial 10T transducers. Today, the top of...
Aesthetix
Aesthetix produces handcrafted high-end tube-based two-channel amplifiers, preamplifiers, phono stages, and accessories, all designed by founder and president Jim White....
Air Tangent
Designed by Leif Häggmark, Air Tangent produces one of the most advanced tonearms in the world, the linear tracking Airtangent 2002....
Air Tight
With family ties to the original Luxman corporation, Air Tight has produced ultra high-end tube-based amplifiers and preamplifiers since 1986....
Aiwa
Founded in 1951, Aiwa made its mark in cassette decks in 1964 and gradually helped cultivate the large mini-system and personal stereo market of the late 1980s and early 1990s....
Ajuga/Hurley Screens
Hurley Screens have been making filmscreens for theatrical, professional and home theater use going back as far as 1935. Today's product lineup even boasts screens designed for the burgeoning world of 3D playback....
Akai
Founded in 1929, Akai introduced reel-to-reel tape decks, cassette decks, and professional audio equipment, and helped develop the on-screen display for VCRs....
AKG
Founded in Vienna in 1947, AKG produces one of the most respected and recognized lines of microphones and headphones in the world. In addition to its own products, AKG also designs and manufactures products for many well-known brands throughout the...
Alchemist Audio
Founded in 1989 and designed by Glen Gayle and Tim de Paravicini, Alchemist produced a high-end line of amplifiers, preamplifiers, and digital separates noted for their unusual industrial design, along with an affordable line of loudspeakers. The company closed in...
Algolith
Algolith is a maker of mostly professional video processing and conversion devices that sometimes trickle down to the higher end home theater applications....
Aliante
Founded in Italy in 1992, Aliante designs and manufactures a select line of fully Italian-made loudspeakers, featuring two-way designs and a complementary center channel. Aliante has collaborated in the past with noted driver manufacturer VIFA, as well as Ferrari designer...
Allison Acoustics
Founded in 1974 by Roy Allison, Allison Acoustics speakers are individually built to order....
Almarro Products
Almarro Products is a tube audio manufacturer from Nagano, Japan known best for their wooden faceplates. They also have a growing line of loudspeakers including the M0A, M1A, M2A, M3A and M33A loudspeakers....
Aloia
Line of tube and solid state amplifiers and preamplifiers designed by Italian audio legend Bartolomeo Aloia....
Alon
Founded in 1992 and designed by Carl Marchisotto, Alon Speakers use open baffle, dipole, and resonance control design concepts to create its unique sound....
Alphason
Founded in 1985, Alphason initially produced a series of acclaimed turntables, tonearms, and speakers, featuring the Symphony turntable and legendary HR-100S tonearm. Ironically, in its investigation of better support devices for its audio products, the company began producing an equally...
Altec Lansing
Altec Lansing formed as a combining of Western Electric's initiative for selling and servicing its loudspeaker products into the motion picture industry (dubbed the "All Technical Service Company"), with the company founded by loudspeaker design legend James B. Lansing, in...
AMC/Welltronics
AMC/Welltronics is (was?) an audiophile maker of electronics. Signs point to them not being in business any more including no website....
American Power Conversion (APC)
APC is one of the most mainstream makers of consumer grade AC power products including battery backup devices, bus strips and power conditioners....
AMX Corporation
AMX is a very well known maker of touch screen remote control systems and all of the parts needed to put together a fully automated AV system. AMX enjoys a strong presence in the professional market including the board and...
Analysis Plus
These high end audio and digital cables use proprietary "Hollow Oval" design and come from the world of musical instruments (MI)....
Angstrom Loudspeakers
Founded in 1978 and based in Canada, Angstrom Loudspeakers produces a comprehensive line of stand alone and architectural loudspeakers and subwoofers, including in-wall, on-wall, in-ceiling, and lifestyle offerings....
Antex
Antex is a specialty custom installation company who makes satellite radio tuners for both XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite radio that can distribute audio for multiple zones which is useful for distributed audio systems....
Anthem
A sister company to Paradigm Loudspeakers, Anthem brings a similarly world-class reputation to affordable high-end electronics. Anthem's lineup of preamplifier/processors and amplifiers consistently garner worldwide acclaim across both the consumer and professional markets....
Anthony Gallo Acoustics
Founded in 1994, Anthony Gallo Acoustics manufactures high-end loudspeakers, subwoofers and installation accessories for stereo and home theater. Their product line is carried by a strong network of U.S. dealers specialty audio dealers domestically and distributed in over 60 countries...
Antique Sound Labs
Antique Sound Labs combines state-of-the-art in-house manufacturing with world-class parts quality to create its tube amplifier, preamplifier, and headphone products....
Aperion Audio
Aperion Audio, founded by Win Jeanfreau, is a direct seller of speakers via the Internet. They are best known for their Intimus line of loudspeakers and their butt-kissing customer service. Home theater enthusiasts eat up all of the attention that...
Apex Digital
Apex Digital makes very entry level DVD players, tuners and other consumer electronics devices that are sold through warehouse and mass market stores like Best Buy, Target and Costco....
API
Designer and manufacturer of all-discrete professional audio products, and one of the most highly used audio broadcast console brands by radio and television networks, stations, and recording studios....
Apogee Acoustics
Founded in 1982, Apogee produced one of the industry's most acclaimed lines of ribbon loudspeakers. Famous for their lethal combination of transparency and load difficulty, Apogee produced a series of models until its demise in the late 1990s, including the...
April Music
Founded in 1998 and based in Korea, April Music produces the "Aura" line of lifestyle oriented audio products, including the Aura Music Center and Aura Model 100 loudspeaker, as well as the "Stello" line of compact digital separates....
Aragon
Aragon is the sister brand to Acurus and was notable for offering truly high end power amps and electronics as below the ultra-high-end prices. Their Stereophile Magazine review of the Aragon 4004 stereo amp was one of the most powerful...
Arcam
Founded in the UK in 1972, Arcam emphasizes simplicity in its designs for the audio and home theater markets....
Arcici
Founded by high-end audio industry veteran Ray Shab, Arcici made its name by producing a popular stand for the legendary Quad ESL-63 loudspeakers. The company now offers a range of audio and home theater furniture, as well as a line...
Aria Audio
Founded by Michael Elliott (former President and chief designer of Counterpoint), Aria Audio produces world-class tube-based amplifiers, preamplifiers, and phono stages, all made in the USA and sold direct to the consumer....
Ariston
Ariston is a Scottish turntable company that may not currently be in business. Ariston produced the famous belt-drive RD11, which ultimately became the legendary Linn LP12 turntable. Other models of note from Artison include the RD40 turntable....
Aronov Audio Lab
Emanating from the Aronov electronics repair facility in Southern California, Aronov produced a series of high-end tube amplifiers and preamplifiers in the late 1990s....
ARRAKIS SYSTEMS, INC.
Arrakis Systems is a professional audio company known for audio networking and audio consoles....
ARS Aures Audio
Founded in 1997, ARS Aures Audio produces high-end loudspeaker products combining high performance with European design flair, all designed and manufactured in Italy. Similar to Sonus Faber in appearance, Aures Audio products incorporate a variety of materials and incorporate integrated...
Art Audio
Art Audio produces a varied line of high end tube-based amplifiers, preamplifiers, integrated amplifiers, phono stages, and D/A Converters....
Art Engine
Art Engine is a new player in the lifestyle speaker business. As part of the David Weiner Collection of companies, Art Engine is a Utah-based manufacturer that produces a Ferrari-badged speaker that is in fact a stereo speaker in one,...
Artemis Labs
Artemis Labs produces a select line of tube-based amplifiers, preamplifiers, and phono stages in narrow, deep chassis, as well as a turntable....
Artison
Founded in 2003 by loudspeaker design legend Cary Christie (co-founder of Infinity), Artison produces a multitude of state-of-the-art architectural loudspeakers and subwoofers, featuring in-wall and on-wall models specifically designed to complement flat-panel displays....
ASR
ASR is a Geman maker of audiophile electroncis that are sold in very few United States retailers. ASR is known in international audiophile circles for their ASR Emmiter 1, ASR Phono-Vorverstärker and the ASR Akkumulator-Netzteil....
AstriAudio
AstriAudio is an Italian brand of audiophile speakers and electronics. The AstriAudio T1 Celeano is a bargain two-way design with cloth covering. Other speakers in the AstriAudio lineup include the C3 Schendir and the T2 Merope....
Athena Technologies
Athena Technologies is a sister line from API created to compliment Energy and Mirage. API was known best for Energy Speakers but quietly made a lot of speakers for other companies in what's called an OEM relationship. Howard Heiber sold...
ATI
Manufacturer of broadcast, professional, and studio products...
Atlantic Technology
Founded in 1989, Atlantic Technology designs and manufactures home audio entertainment products that emphasize engineering excellence and innovation. Atlantic has consistently produced award-winning products that deliver performance beyond customer expectations. Atlantic is one of the most experienced companies in...
Atlas
Atlas is a Scottish cable company, founded by John Carrick, once of Ariston. Range includes analogue, digital and video cables....
Atma-sphere
In business for over 30 years, Atma-sphere builds high-end Triode, Class A, balanced OTL amplifiers and preamplifiers featuring patented Circlotronic® circuitry....
ATON Technology in Reach™
ATON is an electronics company best known the audiophile and home theater world for making speaker routers....
Audes USA
Audes USA is an audiophile maker of loudspeakers that have ties back to the early radios of the 1930's. They are well known for their Excellence and Maestro lines of speakers....
Audia
Audia is a small brand of Italian electronics including amps, receivers, tuners and CD players. Audia is well-made and cleanly-styled audiophile equipment by today's standards. Audia current products include the FL 100 amp, the FL PRE preamp, the FL Three...
Audiav Reference A/V Furniture
AudiAV sits atop the food chain for ultimate-level audiophile equipment racks. Audiophiles looking for ultimate performance via anti-vibration technology invest as much in an AudiAV rack as one might spend on a top-performing stereo preamp or power amp as these...
Audible Allusions
Pleasantville, California based Audible Allusions is an audiophile company that has been known for value priced gear for more than 20 years. Today they make products like the Audible Allusions Modulus 3a, the Audible Allusions L2 Line Stage and the...
Audio Alchemy
Now defunct, Audio Alchemy rose like a shot in the late 1980s as a pioneer of the digital separates category. The company's Digital Decoding Engine v1.1 D/A Converter started this enormous wave, and the company built on its success with...
Audio Control
Founded over 30 years ago, AudioControl desings car, home, and professional audio products that factor in the listening environment to its design and performance....
Audio Design Associates
Founded in 1977, ADA helped pioneer multi-room and distributed audio systems, and hence has emerged as a leader in the custom installation industry....
Audio Physic
Founded 20 years ago and made in Germany, Audio Physic adheres to the concept of "No loss of fine detail" in its loudspeaker products....
Audio Products International
Founded by Howard Heiber, API is the parent company behind the brands Energy and Mirage as well as a well-known OEM based in the suburbs of Toronto. API enjoyed critical acclaim and mass-market success in the late 1990's and early...
Audio Research
Founded in 1970 by legendary audio designer William Zane Johnson, Audio Research is one of the original high end audio brands, pioneering vacuum tube designs and originating the concept of "High Definition" in audio, a phrase that has been its...
Audio Space
Audio Space is an extreme Asian maker of audiophile tube electronics like the Audio Space Reference 2 power amp. Audio Space is imported to the United States by a company called Gini based in California but that also has ties...
Audio-Technica
Founded in 1962 and initially a maker of phono cartridges, Audio Technica now primarily makes professional audio products such as microphones, headsets, wireless systems, and mixers....
Audion
Audion is an ultra-obscure audiophile tube electronics company founded in 1987 by David Chessell and Erik Anderson. The company is most noted for their 1992 product the 300b Golden Dragon amp. They also make the Silvernight series, the Audion Golden...
AudioPax
AudioPax is a South American tube amp manufacturer. Novel circuitry of the AudioPax Model 88 monoblock allows user to tune the sound via biasing which of specific interest to tube enthusiasts. Other products from AudioPax include the Model Ninety Eight...
Audioplex Technology
Audioplex Technology makes a full line of home automation products including volume controls, amps, IR controllers, in-wall speakers, AB Switchers and much more....
Audioprism
Audioprism makes noise filtering devices and accessories for the audiophile market....
AudioQuest
Founded in 1980 by Bill Low, AudioQuest helped to pioneer the concept of high end cable products in the US and throughout the world. Their "Dragon" cable set a new bar for ultra-high-end audiophile cables in the late 1980's. AudioQuest...
AudioSource
AudioSource is a maker of lifestyle speaker systems including a full compliment of in-wall and other hidden speakers....
Audiovalve
AudioValve is a tube amp manufacturer from Germany that employs unique circuits designed by Helmut Becker, including auto-biasing which allows user to mix tubes within the same amp....
Aural Symphonics
Designed and manufactured in the USA, Aural Symphonics offers a complete line of audio, video, and digital cable products....
Auralex Acoustics, Inc.
Auralex Acoustics makes professional grade room treatments designed for professional audio and some audiophile applications....
Aurasound
Aurasound is best known in the mobile and car audio space. For home theater they make "bass shakers" or transducers. They also sell raw drivers and a line of 5.1 and 7.1 home theater speakers....
Auton
Auton was one of the first companies to bring television lifts to the awareness of home theater installers and consumers alike. Today Auton lifts can hide HDTVs in ceilings, in cabinets or even in the floors and with the pressing...
Avalon Acoustics
High end loudspeaker manufacturer offering a complete range of audio and home theater models....
Avantgarde
Avantguarde speakers are no longer imported to the US. These gigantic and often candy-colored horn speakers feature gigantic round flanges and are truly the visual definition of why a wife might file for divorce of a pair of loudspeakers. Their...
Avid
Avid, not to be confused with the video editing suite, is a British turntable and arm manufacturer founded by Conrad Mas. Avid is well-known for open-architecture designs and beautiful machining of their parts....
Avielo by ProjectorDesign
A consumer spin-off brand from projectiondesign, the avielo series of high performance projectors are designed and hand-built in Fredrikstad, Norway. Aimed at the high-end custom installation market for use in elite lifestyle applications, avielo projectors feature the most advanced imaging...
Axiom Loudspeakers
Over 20 years in business, Axiom Audio sells direct to consumers and has gained cult-like status for its high-value products and no-nonense sales and marketing approach....
Ayre
Ayre Acoustics, Inc. founded by Charles Hansen, has been designing and building quality, award winning audio and video equipment since 1993. They compete in the specialty audiophile-only world with the likes of Pass Labs, Boulder and Burmester. Their products offer...
B&K Components
Founded in 1981 and based entirely in the USA, B&K started as an affordable high-end audio product producer similar to Adcom, and effortlessly evolved into home theater and multi-room categories to emerge as a market leader in the late 1990s....
Bag End Loudspeakers
Home and professional loudspeaker and subwoofer manufacturer...
BAlabo (Bridge Audio Laboratory)
Pronounced Bee-A-LABO, BAlabo is an audiophile company based around the designs of Fumio Ohashi. The BAlabo BP-1 MK-II power amp and BAlabo BC-1 MK-II control preamp make up much of the current audiophile lineup for the brand which is imported...
Balanced Audio
High end manufacturer of amplifiers, preamplifiers, phono stages, and CD players utilizing balanced circuit topologies and both solid state and tube technologies....
Bang & Olufsen
A pioneer in melding home entertainment with aestheitics and lifestyles elements, for the last 80 years B&O has strived to create extraordinary products that create unforgettable experiences....
Barco
A global leader in professional visual display products across numerous industries such as medical, defense, education, and transportation....
Basis Audio
Basis is a New Hampshire based maker of audiophile turntables including the Debut. Basis Audio has been making turntables for over 20 years now....
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Bass Industries
Bass Industries makes a complete line of home theater seating including "media sofas" which are less traditional shapes. They also make movie frames, wall treatments, club chairs and much more....
BDI
Virginia based BDI makes a wide sampling of home theater furniture. Most of their designs are built to house AV electronics like a receiver, a Blu-ray player and a DVR while displaying today's most popular HDTVs at the correct viewing...
Beam-Echo
Beam-Echo a.k.a. Avantic, is a British tube electronics manufacturer from 1950s/1960s. Beam-Echo made a brief comeback in the 1990s but never could get a foothold in the worldwide audiophile market much like Dynaco....
Bel Canto Designs
Founded in the early 90s by John Stronczer, Bel Canto produces innovative, high value A/V solutions and features one of the world's most heralded digital amplifier circuits. Once known for their home theater and multi-channel products, Bel Canto has reverted...
Bell'Oggetti
Utlizing Italian design elements, Bell'O has consistently produced a wide range of home theater furniture utilizing a variety of materials such as metal, wood, and glass....
Belles
Belles is a New York-based amp manufacturer, known for true Class A solid-state power amps, plus tube and tube-hybrid pre-amps, designed by Dave Belles. Belles also tried to make a desktop audio system in the early 2000's....
Benchmark Media Systems
Benchmark Media is one of the hottest new AV companies in the AV business with a complete line of USB and computer friendly preamps, DACs and other audiophile electronics. Benchmark is bridging the gap between audiophile systems and the media...
BenQ
BenQ is a major manufacturer and OEM of front video projectors and high end video products including affordable front video projectors and more reference level 3-chip DLP projectors....
Benz-Micro
Benz-Micro is a Swiss manufacturer of top-quality moving-coil cartridges, company headed by Albert Lukaschek....
Berkline
Berkline is known as a mainstream furniture manufacturer. Today they make dedicated home theater seating for the movie enthusiasts....
BetterCables.com
Brad Marcus' BetterCables.com is a value leader in direct to the consumer audiophile and home theater cables....
Beveridge
Beveridge is a much-missed, much-loved US manufacturer of tall electrostatic loudspeaker, which forced its sound through a narrow vertical aperture. Beveridge sits in audiophile history with Magenpan and Acoustat....
BIC America
BIC stands for British Industry Corporation and in the 1960's the company imported lines like Garrard turntables, Luxman electronics and Wharfdale Loudspeakers. Today BIC America has their own lone of audiophile speakers that crossover to the home theater enthusiasts....
Billy Bags
One of the first high-end custom A/V furniture companies, for the last 20 years Billy Bags has produced some of the most creative and interesting solutions in the category....
Black Diamond Racing
Manufactures carbon fiber isolation devices for high end audio components, to provide a flexible system for approaching the problems of Vibration Control...
Black Knight
Black Knight is a British accessories manufacturer from 1960s. Black Knight made a kit for turntables called the Black Knight Rumble Cure....
Blue Angel
Blue Angel is a small boutique moving-coil cartridge manufacturer from South Africa. Blue Angel hand-makes each cartridge, including the Mantis with optional ruby cantilever....
Blue Circle Audio
Based in Canada, Blue Circle Audio has produced handcrafted tube and solid state electronics such as phono stages, preamplifiers, and D/A Converters for the high-end audio market since 1988....
Blue Ocean Projection Screens
Blue Ocean® Rear Projection Screens are fabricated with two ultra-clear panels of cell cast acrylic with a hi-tolerance viewing plane centered between them to deliver frameless, edge-to-edge projection for high-definition viewing. What viewers encounter is an amazingly brilliant and color-faithful...
Blue Ocean Screens by Nippura
Blue Ocean Screens is a relatively new player in the specialty home theater screen market who some suggest have very good results with Sony's latest projectors....
Blue Pearl
Blue Pearl makes a huge floor-standing turntable from UK with integral granite base and price tag of around $80,000. Blue Pearl Turntables are often seen using Graham tone arm in audiophile enthusiast systems....
Bohlender Graebener
Founded in 1994 and based in Nevada, BG produces leading planar loudspeaker technology and solutions for audio, video, and custom installation markets....
Bose
Founded in 1964 by Amar Bose, is truly the grandfather of mass-market loudspeakers. The Bose 901 loudspeaker is one of the most significant and meaningful loudspeakers ever designed and to this day still enjoys critical acclaim. Bose, while not loved...
Boston Acoustics
Founded in 1979, Boston Acoustics, emerged as one of the most popular affordable loudspeaker brands in the mid to late 1980s, and has since continued to flourish in the audio, home theater, car, and multimedia loudspeaker markets....
Boulder
Located in Colorado and founded in 1984 by Bruce Van Allen, Boulder produces robust, ultra high-end two-channel audio products such as amplifiers, preamplifiers, and D/A Converters. Their products today compete in the elite, upper-echelon of audiophile products. While more limited...
BOW Technologies
Founded in 1994, BOW Technologies produces a unique range of two-channel audio products combining high performance with striking cosmetics....
Bowers & Wilkins (B&W)
Obsessed with the idea of making the perfect loudspeaker, John Bowers and Peter Heyward founded B&W Electronics in 1966, and have earned the respect of recording artists and engineers ever since. Now one of the biggest and most popular high...
Brinkmann
Brinkman is a German audiophile company imported to the United States by the same company that brings in Avant-garde horn speakers. They make ultra-level audiophile turntables as well as electronics such as the Brinkmann Marconi amp, the Calvin amp, the...
Bryston
Famous for its 20-year warranty policy and stringent quality control methods, Bryston produces some of the most reliable, consistent high-end and home theater electronics in the industry....
Burmester Audio
Made in Germany since 1978, Burmester produces some of the world's highest end, exclusive (and expensive) audio products featuring amplifiers, preamplifiers, D/A Converters, and loudspeakers....
Buttkicker
Buttkicker is a tactile transducer made by the Guitammer Company and it does win the best product name award. People use complicated descriptors to describe what this type of product does (it shakes your seat or floor etc) and Buttkicker...
Bybee
Physicist Jack Bybee inspires this company's complete line of power conditioners and cables. Bybee competes with the likes of Furman, Richard Gray's Power Company, PS Audio, Brick Wall, Furman, Purepower, Shyunata, Transparent, Equi-tech, APC, Monster Power and many other top...
Cabasse
Cabasse, founded in 1950 by Georges Cabasse, draws its design inspiration from a line of Cabasse violin, viola, and cello makers dating back to 1740. The company owns the Cabasse Acoustic Center design facility in western France from which most...
Cable Electronics
Cable Electronics is a maker of advanced audio and video distribution products including HDMI switchers and much more....
Cable Research Lab
Cable Research Lab is a maker and direct reseller of audiophile grade speaker cables, interconnects and other accessories. They have an aggressive in-home trial program and are sold through cable retailers like the Cable Company....
Cadence Sound
Designers and resellers of affordable speakers for home theater including a critically acclaimed series of sound bars as well as larger format home theater loudspeakers designed for 5.1 and or 7.1 applications....
Cain and Cain Company
Cain and Cain is a Wala Wala, Washington based speaker company that makes very unique speaker systems that utilize a one-driver technology. Their cabinetry is very well done....
Cairn
European made audiophile two channel electronics firm known for a class-A monoblocks and a slick looking audio (stereo) preamp....
California Audio Labs
California Audio Labs is no longer in business. In the 1980's, California Audio Labs was one of the first companies to make audiophile grade CD players and CD transports that dealt with issues of jitter and vibration. They were made...
California Audio Technology (CAT)
California Audio Technology (CAT) makes the most high end, expensive audiophile and home theater speakers on the market today. Their systems are often custom built, come with specific power amplifiers and are both treated acoustically as well as specifically tuned...
Calix Technology
If you are looking for speakers that have industrial design inspired by the Fifth Element (the DVD - not the Blu-ray) including horn drivers and crazy cabinets - look no farther than Calix. Their Phoenix Grand Signature is a notable...
Cambridge Audio
Since 1968, UK-based Cambridge Audio has produced a complete line of affordable high end audio products such as amplifiers, preamplifiers, and accessories....
Camelot Technology
Founded in 1990 by retail high-end audio pioneer Mel Schilling and his son, Howard, Camelot Technology produces some of the world's most acclaimed high-end digital audio and home theater products, and cable and accessory lines. Famous for its renowned DVD...
Canare Cables
One of the world's leading brands of professional audio and video cables and accessories, such as 75 Ohm, F, and RCA models and reels, tools, and strippers. Today, CEDIA installers use Canare cables to custom fit and custom make cables...
Canary Audio
Canary Audio is a Rosemead, California based audiophile electronics company that makes tube electronics, CD players and AC power cables as part of a full line of audiophile products....
Cantina Sperimentale Audio
Slickly designed Italian tube electronics including two full lines of products. Not much distribution in the United States. Very sleek industrial design....
Canton
Founded in 1972 in Germany, Canton combines absolute audio performance with striking aesthetics to create products that appeal to many types of users across many applications. Canton has gained significant marketshare in the mid-2000's in the United States marketing both...
Canton USA
Canton was founded in 1973 by a group of audio enthusiasts with the simple mission statement "to develop the finest loudspeakers in their class." Over the past 35 years, Canton has grown into the largest speaker manufacturer, and best-selling brand...
Carada Screen
Carada Screens make and sell home theater video screens in various aspect ratios and some with masking. Carada Screens are best known for their Masquerade and Criterion screens. Carada Screens also sell direct to to the consumer via their website....
Carat Audio
French-made audiophile electronics that is in fact inspired by the diamond (thus the name). They have a robust worldwide distribution and a very good looking website....
Cardas Audio
High-end audio, video, and digital cable manufacturer founded by George Cardas, utilizing patented technologies and premium materials to create some of the world's most respected cable solutions. Cardas is an audiophile-specific brand based in Bandon, Oregon that also provides premium...
Carver
Bob Carver is one of the five most influential people in the history of audio and his second company - Carver - was one of his biggest successes. Carver boomed in the 1970's and even into the 1980's but when...
Cary Audio Design
Cary Audio Design was founded in May, 1989 by Dennis Had and his wife, Donna, on their dining room table. Dennis' passion for electronics started when he was seven years old. He and his boyhood friends used to build all...
Castle Acoustics
British loudspeaker manufacturer Castle Acoustics makes a full line of speakers offering many wood veneer finishes and speakers of various sizes....
Cayin Audio USA
Cayin Audio USA is a small manufacturer of tube audio products that doesn't have a website but is sold through online retailers like Acoustic Sounds, etc....
Celestion
Founded in 1922, Celestion helped to pioneer cone loudspeaker development and was at the pinnacle of audiophile speaker design in the late 1980's into the early 1990's. Their SL-600 speakers are of note. The parent company of Celestion bought out...
Cello
Founded in 1984 by Mr. Mark Levinson shortly after his departure from the Mark Levinson Company (now owned by Harman Specialty group and the premium audio provider for Lexus) Cello was once the pinnacle of ultimate audiophile performance in the...
Celtic Silver Cables
Small audiophile cable company that gained some traction at the 2008 Rocky Mountain Audio fest with their $249 interconnects....
Ceratec HiFi
Ultra-modern looking German speakers that actually deliver on their industrial design promise. They have a robust, multi-lingual website. Some of their speakers are ultra-thin yet tall and would match installations with a flat HDTV in ways a sound bar would...
Cerious Technologies
A speaker and cable company named from a concept from ceramics. Cerious is founded by the former head designer at Unity Audio....
Cerwin Vega
Famous for their ear-splitting volume capabilities, Cerwin Vega has produced some of the world's highest efficiency and output level home and pro audio loudspeakers since 1954....
CEWL Custom Cables
Cewl Custom Cables are more of an audiophile cable company designed to meet the needs of the performance based enthusiasts more than the custom installer....
Chalice Audio
Chalice Audio is a handmade tube electronics company based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Their products including tube power amps are housed in beautifully made wooden cases and have hand done wiring. They claim their designs have the...
Chang Lightspeed
Founded in 1991 by Michael Chang, Chang Lightspeed makes somewhat affordable and audiophile grade AC power products and AC power filtration devices designed to clean the power needed to run today's top performing audiophile systems....
Chang Lightspeed
Founded in 1991 by Michael Chang, Chang Lightspeed produces AC power conditioning products utilizing a unique coil-less and transformer-less design....
Channel Islands Audio
Channel Islands Audio makes audiophile electronics and sells them directly at very favorable prices including a 500 Watt Per Channel Monoblock for $2,500. They also sell music servers and turntables from other companies to round out their product offerings that...
Chapter Electronics
This British electronics company makes some of the most visually stunning audiophile electronics including cube-like power amps and blue-glowing preamps....
Chario
Chario is an Italian maker of audiophile loudspeakers. Currently there are six complete lines of speakers in the Chario lineup including but not limited to the Academy, Constellation, Premium, Heiper, Silverette, Silhouette and Picolo speakers....
Charisma Audio
Makers of wild, large-format audiophile tube amps and electronics as well as the importer of Shanling electronics. Shanling is known for their CD and other disc players that are part player and part spaceship....
Chesky Records
Founded by David Chesky, Chesky Records is one of the most well known audiophile record labels today. Chesky releases music in high resolution formats such as SACD as well as selling music by the download....
Chestnut Hill Sound
Chestnut Hill Sound makes slick iPod based lifestyle music systems, clock radios and beyond....
Chief Manufacturing
Chief Manufacturing makes mounts, lifts and other hardware for installing projectors, AV components and far beyond....
Chimera Laboratories
Dallas, Texas-based audiophile cable company with nearly 40 years in the audiophile business....
Chiro
A spin-off brand from Kinergetics and designed by Anthony DiChiro. The question is "Where is Marco?" (DiChiro's loyal sidekick)....
Chord Cables
Not to be confused with Chord Electronics, Chord Cables is one of the most successful UK cable manufacturers and producer of comprehensive line-up of interconnects, speaker cables as well as AC power products....
Chord Electronics
UK-based Chord Electronics has been producing unique audio, home theater, pro audio, and Bluetooth audio products and accessories since 1989. Chord's audiophile products have a limited but dedicated following in the United States today and compete in at the ultimate...
Cineak
Cineak makes furniture grade home theater and audiophile seating that is a cut above the norm. They also make acoustical treatments and sell very design-minded home theater interior products....
CinemaShop™
Home Theater Accessories, Decorations, Furniture, Seating and Much More! Guaranteed Best Theater Seating and Decor Prices - plus Free Ground ShippingYou've found parent company of the leading online dealer of discounted home theater accessories, decor, furniture & seating - offering...
Cinematech Seating
Cinematech Seating is some of the most high end home theater seating on the market today complete with electric recliners and supple materials....
Cinepro
CINEPRO makes a full line of home theater products, most notably powerful, multi-channel power amps for home theater use as well as a full line of 7.1 loudspeaker systems....
Clarity Cable
Clarity Cable makes audiophile cables and power conditioners with very limited distribution in the United States....
Clark Synthesis
Clark Synthesis is known for making tactile transducers which to the mainstream consumer rattle and shake your seating (and overall music or home theater) environment by creating very low frequency sound....
Classe
Founded in 1980, Montreal-based Classe' has remained one of the most respected brands of ultra high-end audio and home theater source, preamplification, and amplification components in the world. Classe's industrial design is second to none thanks to the resources allowed...
Clayton Audio
Makers of large scale audiophile power amplifiers. They have no working website and it is not clear if the company is still in business. Most notable product is their M-100 mono amp costing a whopping $6,500 per channel....
Clearaudio
Clearaudio makes modern day turntables and analog products for today's value and performance minded consumer. Marantz re-badges the German-made table for sale in their line. They make a very slick product that is sold at a fair price....
Clearlight Audio
German company that makes AV racks, isolation devices and even loudspeakers....
Clements Audio
Small Arizona-based speaker manufacturer with over 16 models in the line. There is no website for this brand....
Cobalt Cables
Value-minded audiophile cable company founded by audio enthusiast John Coleman....
Coda
Makers of very high end audiophile grade electronics. Noted for their Continuum Unison 3.1 power amp....
Coincident Speaker Technology
Founded in 1993 by Israel Bloom, a hardcore audiophile inspired by the sound of Quad ESL 63 speakers as well as Wilson WATT Puppy speakers, Coincident Speakers aim to bring the best characteristics of the big-boy audiophile brands to the...
Colton
Colton is a British manufacturer of turntables and general audio accessories including tone arm-lifter called the Colton Magna-Lift....
Composite Products
Composite Products, LLC designs, manufactures and markets high performancecarbon fiber anti-vibration racks, platform shelves and accessory feet andmounts for the high-end audio/video and scientific markets. Our productsdissipate vibration from internal and external sources including air-bornover complete operational frequency ranges.Most audiophiles...
Concert Fidelity
Concert Fidelity is the tube line from Japanese designer Masataka Tsuda. His solid state line is called Silicon Arts Design....
Connoisseur
Connoisseur is a hugely popular British turntable from 1950s-1980s, founded by Arnold Sugden in Yorkshire, England. Connoisseur also sold the B1 turntable kit which started a lot of novices in their audiophile passions....
Conrad Johnson
Dr. William Conrad and Dr. Lewis Johnson have produced some of the world's most highly regarded amplifiers, preamplifiers, and CD players since 1977, utilizing a variety of tube, solid state, hybrid, and FET-based designs. "CJ", as they are known from...
Consensus Audio
German-made audiophile loudspeakers that are mostly floorstanding, large-format speakers....
Consonance
Chinese made audiophile tube electronics. Notable products include the MS400S 40 watt monoblock amps....
Continental Seating
Texas-based Continental Seating is an ultra-luxury maker of home theater seating. They have partnerships with the likes of Crestron and are focused very much on the custom installation market....
Continuum Audio Labs
Winner of the 2006 Stereophile Magazine product of the year, this Australian made turntable and tone arm system is pure eye candy with its industrial design. They have various tone arms including the Copperhead and the more "stubby" Cobra....
Control4
Control4 is a home automation company that offers a little more DIY access than the higher priced Crestron and AMX products. Installers like Control4 for homes that can't justify the often high cost of a full Crestron control system....
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Convergent Audio Technology (C.A.T.)
Small manufacturer of audiophile, large format tube amps. Also goes by the name C.A.T....
Cool Components
Tampa-based Cool Components makes innovative cooling devices for home theater racks and home theater installations. Heat kills both the performance and lifespan of high performance AV gear especially as they become increasingly computer based....
Coph Nia Amplifiers
Swedish made audiophile electronics line. Small product offering including a MC phono preamp and a tank-like stereo preamp....
Copland
Copland specializes in tube-based high end audio products, and also offers multi-channel and room correction solutions. Scandinavia's answer to Mark Levinson's Cello and, unlike Cello, which is in the "where are they now" file of audiophile brands, Copland continues to...
Copulare
German-made audiophile electronics not widely distributed in the United States....
Core Audio Designs
Wooden audiophile furniture and equipment racks. They also make software storage specifically for LPs....
Counterpoint
A brand from long ago, Counterpoint was the lesser line under the once-mighty Threshold products. An odd note, Counterpoint used to make its way onto the Bob Barker hosted game show, The Price is Right. How housewives were supposed to...
Cox Audio Systems
Oregon-based maker of horn loaded loudspeakers....
CR Developments
UK-based maker of tube electronics....
Creative Cable Concepts
An audiophile cable company that makes both interconnects and speaker cables....
Creative Labs
Creative Labs is best known for their computer audio products including sound cards and desktop speakers....
Creek
Over the last 20 years, Creek Audio has specialized in offering exceptionally high-value high end audio products including integrated amplifiers and phono stages, starting in 1982 with its acclaimed CAS4040 Integrated Amplifier....
Crest Audio
An electronics company more known in the sound reinforcement world than in the audiophile world. Crest amps are highly powerful, often rack mounted and are very reliable....
Crestron
Crestron is the leading manufacturer of touch screen remotes and home automation systems. Crestron is the A-list dealer's choice for providing one-touch control of an entire home's automated functionality including multi-room audio, distributed video, lighting, HVAC, security and much more....
Critical Mass Systems
Critical Mass Systems makes audiophile equipment racks with a focus on physical isolation....
Croft
Croft is a tube amp manufacturer from UK started by Glenn Croft. Croft is famed for using OTL designs and hard-wiring throughout - even his preamp designs....
Crown
Crown is a professional grade amplifier used mostly in sound reinforcement. Crown is one of the Harman International brands and is highly respected in the pro audio world for making powerful and durable power amps and electronics....
Crystal Cable
Crystal Cable is a small audiophile cable company based in the Netherlands that makes speaker cables, interconnects, digital audio cables and AC power cables....
Crystal Cable BV
Small audiophile cable company based in the Netherlands....
Crystal Clear Audio
Makers of expensive 99.99% pure silver cables for audiophile systems....
Cue Acoustics
Cue Acoustics makes one of the more sexy Apple iPhone and iPod touch based clock radio music systems on the market today....
Custom Isolation Products
Makers of acrylic isolation racks for audiophile electronics based in Texas....
Cyrus Brenneman Audio
Cyrus Brenneman Audio is a Texas-based audiophile tube electronics company that sells products direct to the consumer. Their product lineup ranges from somewhat modestly priced items like the Request preamp to the nearly $14,000 Santa Monica 100 Watt tube monoblock...
Cyrus Electronics
UK-based maker of audiophile, solid state electronics. Cyrus' products are off-sized and lifestyle oriented much like that of Linn or Naim....
D-Box Audio
D-Box products translate the action in movies and games to the viewer's seat in the form of jolts, shakes, knocks, falling, swerving, etc., to create a uniquely immersive viewing experience....
D-Sonic
Much like Bel Canto and NuForce, D-Sonic sells amps using B&O's Ice Amp chip which is a class-D technology which is known for its quiet and powerful design. Purists argue that Class AB amps have more "balls" but class-D amps...
D-Tools
D-Tools is a software company that creates tools for writing home theater and home automation bids, doing system drawings, designing racks and beyond....
Da Vinci Audio Labs
It doesn't get more high end and or more esoteric than the Swiss made Da Vinci Audio labs LP and turntable products. They also make amps and electronics....
Da-lite
Founded in 1909, Da-Lite Screen Company is the leading producer of high quality commercial and residential projection screens worldwide. With headquarters in Warsaw, Indiana and additional operations in the U.S. and Europe, Da-Lite manufactures projection screens and accessories for Fortune...
Daedalus Audio
Makers of high end audiophile speakers and pro audio gear....
Dahlquist
Founded in 1972, Dahlquist made a splash in the high end audio world with its debut DQ-10 loudspeaker, designed by Saul Marantz and Jon Dahlquist and famous for its "phased array" of unique drivers arranged on different planes to create...
Dali Loudspeakers
Since 1983, Danish Audiophile Loudspeaker Industries has produced a wide range of high performance audio and home theater loudspeakers in numerous furniture-grade finishes....
Daluso
Daluso is an audiophile and lifestyle loudspeaker maker from The Netherlands. They are best known for their Dutch Basic XL and XXL speakers....
Dared Audio
Dared Audio is an Illinois-based audiophile tube electronics company best known for their DV-200 large 200 Watt tube mono block amps as well as the somewhat out of the box DV-6C multichannel tube amp. Dared Audio also makes some SET...
darTZeel
darTZeel is a Swiss maker of quirky yet very high end electronics. darTZeel is a company that replaces the volume control moniker with the "pleasure control" to give you an idea how they keep a lighthearted outlook on the hobby...
DataColor
DataColor makes video calibration devices such as the Spyder which can reportedly auto-calibrate your video display device....
Davidson Loudspeakers
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based Davidson Loudspeakers are a very obscure maker of speakers that use ribbon drivers. They are best known for their Panga speakers which are based on the BG Radia 75 design....
Davis Acoustics
Davis Acoustics is a French maker of audiophile, home theater, car audio and OEM speakers. Davis Acoustics is best know for speakers like the Kadillac MK2, Sisley, Eva, Forrest and Stentaure products. Davis Acoustics was founded by Michel Visan in...
Davone Audio
Davone Audio makes one of the least "speaker looking" speakers we have ever seen. This Copenhagen-based audiophile speaker company actually makes speakers that look more like arch-shaped furniture than any traditional box speaker. They are truly a must see for...
Day-Sequerra
Founded by legendary tuner designer Dick Sequerra (designer of the famous Marantz 10B Tuner), Day Sequeera specializes in consumer and professional products for radio, television, and Internet broadcasts....
Dayton Wright
Dayton Wright is a Canadian manufacturer of exotic, full-range electrostatic loudspeakers, including the 42intall XG-8 Mk III....
DCM
DCM, makers of the "Time Window" speakers, is one of the most famous brands in loudspeaker history. While gone now, the DCM reputation lives on....
DCM Loudspeakers
Founded in 1974 and featuring TimeWindow technology, DCM specializes in building affordable loudspeakers for the audio and home theater markets....
dCS
dCS makes some of the absolute finest, most expensive digital audio sources including upsampling DACs, CD transports and more. Notable products include their Elgar DAC, Scarlatti DAC, and beyond....
Decca
Decca is the hardware arm of famed UK record label that produced cartridges and speakers. Decca is remembered for using Kelly ribbon tweeters and for an iconoclastic moving iron cartridge....
Decware
Decware is an Illinois-based maker of high end audiophile tube gear designed by Steve Deckert. Decware also offers a limited line of car audio, OEM speaker drivers and fully functioning audiophile speakers such as the DM944 bookshelf speakers....
Definitive Technology
Founded in 1990 by audio industry legend Sandy Gross, Definitive Technology has estabished itself as one of the world's most respected, recognized, and best reviewed loudspeaker brands. Featuring a patented bi-polar design, exemplary build quality and world-class fit and finish,...
deHavilland
DeHavilland is a Washington state based maker of true Class-A, single ended triode (SET) tube power amps such as the 50A....
Delta Sigma
Not to be confused by the mostly black sorority (Delta Sigma Theta), Delta Sigma is a European electronics company who makes measurement equipment....
Dennesen Electrostatic
Dennesen Electrostatic are makers of electrostatic loudspeakers from Beverly, Massachusetts. They might not be in business as they have no website or Google listings for a live business however their products have sold and are listed in Audiogon.com's blue book....
Denon
Founded in 1910 with an emphasis on gramophone players, "Den-on" formed as a merger of Denki Onkyo company of Japan (with "On" meaning 'sound' and "Kyo" meaning 'harmony). After partnering with record company Columbia in 1927, Denon focused on production...
Densen Audio
Danish maker of audiophile electronics including integrated amps, preamps, CD players, power amps, tuners, phono stages and beyond....
DEQX Pty Ltd.
DEQX is an Australian company that makes very sophisticated room correction and digital EQ software that is used in black-box solutions as well as OEM speaker solutions such as Wasatch Audio Lab and NHT speakers....
DeVore Fidelity
Brooklyn, New York based DeVore Fidelity is an audiophile maker of some very nice looking floorstanding loudspeakers including the Gibbon and the Silverback. While themed after primates, the speakers don't look very monkey-like....
DeZorel
DeZorel is a German-made line of audiophile AC power products than include the Model Duet, the Model Quartet and the Model Sextet....
DH Labs
DH Labs makes somewhat affordable audiophile silver cables and specifically AC power products. DH Labs now has a line of HDMI cables....
Diamond Case Design
Diamond Case Design is an Anahiem, California based makes of home theater furniture complete with room for HDTV installations, equipment installations and media storeage....
Diamond Case Designs
Diamond Case Designs builds premade as well as custom AV and home theater furniture that can house entire systems, racks of gear and more....
Diapason Audio
Diapason Audio is an Italian loudspeaker that bears a resemblance in cabinet design to Sonus Faber. They sell speakers direct via their websties and are best known for the Diapason Audio Reference, Diapason Audio Classic, Diapason Audio Ellisse and Diapason...
DiAural LLC
DiAural speaker technology is championed by Ray Kimber of Kimber Kable and was used most notably in the Evett and Shaw line of loudspeakers including the Milano and Elan speakers....
Digeo
Creator of the Emmy® Award- winning Moxi Media Center and backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Digeo empowers subscribers with a full range of digital entertainment capabilities including: digital video recording (DVR); high-definition (HD) programming; digital media management of photography...
Digital Lifestyle Outfitters
Digital Lifestyle Outfitters or DLO as they are known make a huge array of Apple iPod and iPhone accessories including speaker systems, devices to attach your iPhone to your car's vents and beyond....
Digital Phase
Digital Phase makes a self-proclaimed "World's Finest Esoteric Loudspeakers" which is quite a claim for anyone reading this list of AV, audiophile and home theater brands. These beefy looking speakers are sold direct from a webstie that respectfully looks as...
Digital Projection
Digital Projection is a professional video projector company that has built a strong following in the ultra-high end home theater space with installers and consumers looking for 2k resolution projectors....
Digital Theater Systems (DTS)
- DTS is a leader in surround sound for both theatrical and home theater applications. Originally created as a less compressed 5.1 surround sound format for Steven Spielberg's blockbuster, Jurassic Park, DTS gained prominence on the Laserdisc format and then...
Digivision
Digivision is a Poway, California based video processor company....
Dimension Audio
More noted for car audio, Dimension Audio is sold direct through eBay....
DirecTV
DirecTV is the leading Satellite provider in the United States today with over 20,000,000 subscribers. They offer the most HD channels of any content provider and are known for their exclusive relationship with the NFL which has millions of viewers...
Discovery Cable
Florida-based audiophile cable company that makes Teflon based cables for audiophile use....
Display Devices
Display Devices make an array of lifts and stands for video projectors, HDTVs and other display devices for commercial and consumer use....
Diva Classic Audio
Slick, audiophile based electronics company that makes somewhat affordable tube gear....
Divergent Technologies
Divergent Technologies is the importer of brands like JJ Electronic, Chang Lightspeed, Copland and Van Den Hull....
DK Design Group
This brand blew on to the audiophile scene with much fanfare and fizzled as fast as it made its mark with a very Mark Levinson looking (not sounding) Internet-direct integrated amp. Today, DK Design Group is nowhere to be found...
DNM Design
DNM Design makes small format audiophile amps, electronics and parts from the UK....
Docet HiFi
Docet HiFi makes ultra-high end audiophile electronics including a pricey top loading Compact Disc player and the Alphatop MK2 24 bit 192 kHz upsampling digital to analog converter....
Dodd Audio
Audiophile electronics including battery powered preamps, mono amps and more. Their slogan is "Oh, my DODD"....
Dodson Audio
An audiophile audio company whose website has tons of broken images and a main page that doesn't load. Buyer beware....
Dolan Audio
Makers of audiophile electronics including phono preamps, amps and beyond. They sell $7,000 amps direct to the consumer....
Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Labs is one of the most significant companies in AV history. Some argue that the development of Dolby Pro Logic and its application on VHS tape is the true spark that started the home theater business. Today Dolby Labs...
Donald North Audio
Donald North Audio is an innovative maker of lifestyle oriented onwall speakers that have been featured in many of the better AV print publications....
Double S Audio
Double S Audio is (was) a French maker of audiophile speakers. Today there is nary a sign of the company on the Internet including Google and or Yahoo searches which leads us to believe that Double S Audio is out...
Draper
Draper is an Indiana-based maker of premium filmscreens for home theater as well as projector lifts and other parts used by the custom AV installer....
Dream Vision
Dream Vision is a small maker of performance oriented projectors that cater to the home theater enthusiast looking for a solid value in his or her 1080p projector......
Dual
One of the original brands of high-end turntables, Dual, now a subsidiary of the Namsung Corporation, now produces a complete line of home, mobile, and marine audio as well as mobile video and GPS products....
Duevel Loudspeakers
Wild looking speakers that radiate in a 360-degree pattern from a tall, floorstanding format....
Dunlap Clarke
Dunlap Clarke is an American manufacturer of huge power amps, remembered for the Dreadnaught series of huge power amplifiers, including the 250 and the 1000....
Dunlavy Audio Labs
Out of business today, John Dunlavy's speakers gained prominence in the mid-1990's based on Stereophile reviews. Wives filed divorce over these "coffin-like" speakers that were upwards of seven feet tall and very inefficient....
Duntech
Duntech is an Australian loudspeaker maker who really had a hot hand in the 1980's with their absolutely gigantic, towering speakers. Duntech today is the self-proclaimed "most accurate speaker" which is an odd claim. The company is not seen in...
Dussun Audio
Dussun Audio is an Asian-made audiophile power amp and AC power company sold by Ping Gong at AAA Audio in the United States....
Dwin
Based in Glendale, California, DWIN emerged in the 1990s as a value-added projector line and as a much lower cost alternative to the all-powerful Faroudja video processors. DWIN developed lines of DLP-based projectors but seems to have slipped out of...
Dynaco
Founded in 1955, Dynaco, while in its later history made many other products including CD players, matrix surround devices, tuners and loudspeakers, is best known for their famous best-selling Stereo 70 amplifier introduced in 1959. The ST-70 also spawned many...
Dynaudio
Dynaudio, founded in 1977 in Skanderborg, Denmark, is a leading manufacturer of high performance loudspeaker systems, having established itself as one of the largest and most advanced high-end audio companies worldwide. Dynaudio's loudspeaker products are renowned for their high-tech drivers...
Dynavector
Dynavector is a Tokyo-based maker of high end audio cartridges for LP and turntable use. This brand goes way back to the early days of audiophilia and high end playback via LP....
EAD
Founded in 1991, EAD emerged from the digital separates movement of the early 1990s with its DSP7000 D/A Converter. They eventually evolved into CD/DVD players, home theater processors, and amplifiers before going out of business....
EAR Yoshino Ltd.
EAR Yoshino is a British maker of both professional audio and audiophile tube products. The designer behind the work is Tim De Paravincini....
Earthquake Sound
Founded in 1985, Earthquake Sound capitalized on the budding home theater movement by producing some of the highest output, low frequency response subwoofers on the market, and eventually also produced a complete line of amplifiers and loudspeakers....
Eastern Electric
Eastern Electric make affordable audiophile tube electronics in Hong Kong marketed more specifically for the United States market....
Eben Loudspeakers
Eben Loudspeakers make very off the beaten path audiophile speakers. Eben Loudspeakers is best known for their X-3 speakers which should be confused with Wilson Audio's X-1 "Grand Slamm" speakers despite the similarity in model number....
Echo Busters
Founded in 1996, EchoBusters designs and manufactures a complete line of sound control and noise reduction products custom matched to any décor, and featured in many public establishments throughout the world....
Echostar
Echostar is the parent company of Dish Network, the number two satellite television provider in America....
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Eclipse
Eclipse is speaker company from Japan that is best known for their Egg-shaped speakers. Don't confuse Eclipse with Fujitsu's line of car audio speakers and electronics....
Edgarhorn
All I can say about Edgarhorn is that you MUST be an audiophile to love these horn-loaded speakers. Edgarhorn speakers are nothing short of gigantic, organ-looking monsters with huge round transducers, a giant subwoofer looking box and seemingly are matched...
Edge Electronics
One of the worst named audiophile companies ever. Why would anyone want "Edgy" Electronics? Made in Japan and pretty looking gear....
eDimensional
Edimensional is a company that makes virtual reality glasses for use with home theater and consumer electronics....
Eficion
Eficion is a Seattle-based audiophole speaker company that also sometimes crosses over to the home theater market with products like their Ficon F200 bookshelf speakers or the Ficon F300 floorstanding speakers that are a two-piece design that take much of...
Eggleston Works
Founded by William Eggleston (a descendant of the noted photographer) with the goal of reproducing live music, Memphis-based Eggleston Works relies upon live music analysis to create its ultra high end stereo and multi-channel loudspeaker designs noted for their granite...
Eichmann Technologies
Eichmann Technologies are makers of audiophile grade cables including interconnects, speaker cables and most notably AC power cables....
Ekornes, Inc.
Ekornes is no IKEA but they are a Nordic (Norwegian) maker of modern-looking furniture including a line of home theater seating....
Elac
Founded in 1991, Elac loudspeakers are exclusively made in Germany and utilize all-custom drive units, patented technologies, and precision manufacturing techniques....
Elan Home Systems
Elan makes and sells globally a full line of home automation products including touch screen remote controls, multi-room system control products, amps and much more....
Electraglide
An audiophile cable company that sold cables online direct to the consumer. Online reviews of the company and its business practices were far from kind. Their website is now gone....
Electro Research
Founded in the late 1970s by high-end audio legends Mel Schilling and John Iverson, Electro Research produced two of the industry's most respected and universally acclaimed products in its short history: the EK-1 Preamplifier and A75 Amplifier. Both products featured...
Electrocompaniet
A pioneer in high current amplifier designs, Norway-based Electrocompaniet now offers a complete line of products including CD players, preamplifiers, integrated amplifiers, AC power products, and professional audio products....
Electroharmonix
Electroharmonix is a supplier of replacement tubes that comes from the MI (Musical Instrument) market. They also make guitar effects like the "Big Muff" distortion pedal. Electroharmonix crosses over to audiophile applications with tube lovers looking for replacement tubes for...
ElectronLuv
A very small maker of tube electronics who seem to be out of business today or at least have their website on hold....
Electrovoice
Most notably a professional sound reinforcement company that goes by the name EV. EV also makes amps that might cross over to the world of audiophila....
Elite Screens
Elite Screens Inc. is a California-based company founded in 2004 by manufacturing veterans from the AV/IT/Custom industry. Elite Screens specializes in affordable and innovative high quality projection screens in a wide range of types and sizes for all applications, including...
Ellis Audio
Ellis Audio is a very small brand of speakers made and designed by David Ellis in Bellevue, New Hampshire. Ellis Audio has a very humble, personal website that gives access to designer David Ellis. Ellis Audio's designs include the 1801C...
ELP
ELP uses a laser, not a needle, to read the grooves of a record on their unique turntable....
Elrod Power
Elrod Power Systems makes very expensive, seemingly handmade AC power cables for audiophile use. They are somewhat limited in the lengths offered....
Emerald Physics
A bi-polar speaker design from Clayton Shaw in Park City, Utah. Clayton Shaw is best known for his work as a speaker designer with Evett and Shaw....
Eminent Technology
Eminent Technology makes some of the largest, most room dominant hybrid electrostatic speakers on the market today. Having been around for 25 years, they are a somewhat well known brand. Their most notable product is the TRW-17 rotary subwoofer....
EMM Labs
EMM Labs is the electronics brand of engineer Ed Meitner. Meitner's digital audio components are use in high end recording studios around the world and he now sells some of those products to audiophiles so they can get the in-the-studio...
Emotiva
Emotiva is a direct seller of very good home theater and audiophile electronics as well as a line of speakers. Emotiva is the in-house brand of a US-based OEM manufacturer of electronics that makes some of the much more pricey...
Emotive Audio
Handmade and often intricately designed products, Emotive Audio makes tube amps and preamps such as the Vita mono amp and the Circa phono preamp....
Empire Scientific
Once one of the biggest US cartridge makers, Empire Scientific also produced speakers (including a model that looked like a coffee table). Today Empire Scientific makes a sought-after turntable in the extreme audiophile world....
Empirical Audio
Makers of audiophile grade digital audio products including active cable systems that can convert digital audio from say USB to analog via a converter box that is part of an Empirical cable system....
EMT Audio
EMT Audio are makers of fine analog and vinyl playback devices with roots that go back to the 1940's. EMT Audio is sold today by Tone Audio....
Energy Loudspeakers
Energy Speakers in the late 1990's was one of the most popular brands in the ultra-competitive "affordable" range specifically powered by their Take 5.1 small speaker system. In the mid-2000's, API (Energy's parent company) was sold to Klipsch where the...
Ensemble
Ensemble is Swiss made audiophile jewelry products that as HomeTheaterReview.com's editor calls it is "super premium". Ensemble's product line includes audiophile gold such as the Fono Amplifier, the Dichromo HI-DAC and the Dirondo Drive....
EPI
EPI was a popular line of speakers from the 1960's. EPI made well respected bookshelf speakers to rival Advent, KLH, etc. including the EPI100....
Epos
Founded in 1983, UK-based Epos Acoustics designs and manufactures an affordable range of audio and home theater bookshelf and floorstanding loudspeakers, center channels, and subwoofers. Their new line of MI speakers are narrow in footprint and relevant in today's flat...
Epson
Epson is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, producer of front video display devices. While more established in the presentation/office market, Epson has made some significant strides in the consumer - home theater market in recent years with...
EquaRack
New York based, EquaRack makes very well made isolation devices for speakers including ball bearing units and robust looking spikes....
Equi=Tech
From the world of professional audio comes some of the most heavy duty AC power isolation products from Equi-Tech. Their line is complete and even includes products that your electrician can install. If you want your power clean and quiet...
Escalante Design
This Utah based speaker company is a relatively new comer to the market but has gained some serious momentum with their "green" approach to speaker building as well as ultra-efficient speaker designs. Their Freemont speaker might be the world's biggest...
Escient
Escient is a well respected video and audio server company that is owned by D&M holdings. Their Vision Series is most notable in their lineup....
Esommelier
Esommelier is a software system that manages your wine collection via a scanning device and a touch screen remote such as a Crestron or AMX. Esommelier also will come out and catalog your wine collection for the client for a...
Esoteric
Owned by Teac, Esoteric makes very good high end audio and home theater products including universal players, CD transports and beyond....
ESP Loudspeakers
Large format audiophile speakers from the UK that share the goal of reproducing the live musical event....
ESS
ESS was an American speaker company from 1970s. ESS was an early adopter of the Heil AMT tweeter....
Ethera Loudspeakers
Canadian made, triangular looking speakers that seem like they would fit well in a corner much like some of the Allison designs from the late 1970's and early 1980's....
Ethereal Loudspeakers
Very well made cables for video, HDMI and audiophile use. This is much more than a garage based, audiophile cable company. Ethereal has solid solutions for your 1080p video need in a modern high performance home theater....
Etymotic Research
Founded in 1983, Etymotic Research has helped to pioneer headphone and earphone products that enhance and protect hearing. Holder of 89 patents, Etymotic employs a staff of experts in audiology and plays a large role in educational efforts in their...
European Audio Team (EAT)
European Audio Team a.k.a. European Audio Team is a producer of expensive, matched replacement tubes and tube dampers. European Audio Team launched high-end two-motor turntable in 2009....
Evett and Shaw
Salt Lake City-based Evett and Shaw made a complete line of speakers in the late 1990's but was best known for their di-aural, desktop speakers called the Elans. The braintrust behind the company included speaker designer Clayton Shaw and, more...
Exact Power Systems
Founded by Ron Jackson (of Jackson transformer fame), Exact Power was one of the first power regeneration devices to come to market. Using crude descriptions, Exact Power uses a digital amp to recreate part of the AC power wave so...
Exemplar Audio
Exemplar Audio makes audiophile electronics from the mid-west. It's not clear if they are also a retailer or sell direct at this point. They are not widely distributed in the U.S....
Experience Audio
Of all of the odd-ball tube companies in the AV industry, Experience Music might be the coolest. This Memphis based audiophile company creates vintage tube gear using actual vintage parts. The fact they are big Jimi Hendrix fans only makes...
Exposure Electronics
Exposure Electronics is a very high end maker of a complete line of two-channel audiophile electronics from the UK including their CD player XXII, Pre-Amplifier XXII, Dual Phono Pre-amp XVI, Exposure Electronics Dual Mono Power Amp XXVIII and Exposure Electronics...
Extron
Extron is an AV parts company that makes hundreds of different components, parts and gear that helps connect and control home theater and home automation systems including HDMI switchers, IR remote systems, IP link systems, distribution amps and much more....
Fab Audio
Fab Audio is a Canadian maker of high efficiency speakers such as the Stonehenge, Fab Audio Diamond, The Brat and the Model 1....
Faroudja
Founded by Yves and Isabel Faroudja in 1971, Faroudja Laboratories developed a range of revolutionary video processing technologies that helped to improve the inferior NTSC television standard used in the US, as well as its corresponding source formats such as...
Fatman Audio
Tube audio products designed for Apple iPod use. Very cool products and beyond the scope of audiophile use....
Feastrex
Feastrex is an audiophile speaker company founded and run by Yukihito Akiyama, Ph.D. Feastrex is best known for their Naturflux drivers....
Fergus Fons
Fergus Fons was a maker of a well regarded Scottish turntable from late 1970s....
Ferguson-Hill
Ferguson-Hill is a UK horn speaker manufacturer that works with the audiophile market. Ferguson-Hill makes horns from see-through acrylic, ranging from 6 foot tall floorstanders to iPod-suitable desktop models....
Ferrograph
Ferrograph is a defunct British manufacturer of open-reel tape decks. Some of their more notable products include the Model 3S, the Ferrograph YD-G100 which was a military product. The Ferrograph Series 522 and 1945 Model D Ferrograph deck all are...
Fidek Loudspeakers
An extremely esoteric audiophile speaker brand so obscure that they have no website....
Fidelity Acoustics
Very expensive audiophile speakers from Canada. Mostly floorstanding speakers in the lineup....
Final Loudspeakers
Founded in 1991, Final Sound was the first company to make flat speakers that matched the pending flat HDTV boom that would change consumer video forever. Final's CEO fell into legal trouble based on past business dealings at a European...
Finite Elemente
Finite Elemente make wild looking German AV equipment racks with a specific bent towards audiophile systems that need Finite Elemente's very serious build quality....
First Impressions Theme Theatres
First Impression Theme Theaters is a company that pre-makes and or custom designs home theater interiors, acoustical treatments and other design elements to make a media room look and work at its best....
First Sound
First Sound are makers of audiophile solid state amplifiers and preamplifiers from Washington State including products from the Presence Series such as the Presence Delux MKII, as well as the components in the Paramount Series like the Paramount Plus MKII....
First Watt
First Watt is the lower end line designed by legendary electronics designer (Adcom, Threshold, etc.) Nelson Pass....
Fisher
Fisher is a historic brand in audio. Today, they make consumer grade audio products for Apple iPods and simple home theater speakers....
Flat Earth Audio
Flat Earth Audio are importers of SME tonearms and ATC Loudspeakers to the United States....
Flatte Designs
Flatte Design was the amplifier brand that went with the now-classic Evett and Shaw Elan desktop loudspeakers. The Flatte 50 was their most noted amp. It was a narrow rectangular power amp that had many audiophile connectors as well as...
Floating Systems
Floating Systems is a speaker company from Belgium created by engineer Ivan Schellekens. The core of these lifestyle oriented speakers is to isolate the drivers from the cabinets to create better bass and a more defined image....
Fluance Speakers
Loudspeaker company offering high quality, affordable products for both audio and home theater applications. In addition to excellent overall build quality, many Fluance products offer as standard features 5-way gold-plated binding posts, bi-amp/bi-wire configuration, and floor spikes. Fluance sells direct...
Flying Mole Corp.
Flying Mole makes some of the most innovative digital amps based out of Torrance, California....
FM Acoustics
FM Acoustics is a Swiss maker of ultra-high-quality audiophile electronics including power amps, line stage preamps, electronic crossovers and more....
Focal Loudspeakers
Founded in 1980 by engineer Jacques Mahul, Focal went on to dominate the French loudspeaker business. Focal performs all of its design and manufacturing in-house, and has earned worldwide industry acclaim for its driver and cabinetry quality and performance. Their...
Focus Audio
Focus Audio is a Canadian made speaker company that offers a wide range of both ultra-audiophile speakers as well as 7.1 home theater systems....
Forsell
Designed by Dr. Peter Forsell, Forsell is no longer in business but was the Cello reference CD transport. The CD transport actually used a fish tank pump to float a CD upside down and on a bed of air as...
Forte
Forte was Nelson Pass' lower level audiophile line of electronics that matched with his legendary Threshold electronics....
Forty Seven 47 Labs
47 Labs is an extremely high end, esoteric audiophile brand of "minimalist" electronics built to insane tolerances. They make incredible Compact Disc players and other audiophile electronics....
Fostex
Makers of pro audio electronics and recording devices. Not known for their audiophile products unless in pro-sumer applications....
Fried
Founded by legendary loudspeaker design legend Irving "Bud" Fried, Fried Loudspeakers use the trasmission line design principles furthered by Mr. Fried over many decades to create their famous sound quality....
Fritz Speakers
Fritz Speakers makes mostly bookshelf speakers for audiophile applications. In business since 1973 and based in the San Francisco area, Fritz Speakers makes custom speakers and offers a lot of personal service for the client looking for something truly special...
Fujitsu
Fujistu is one of the biggest electronics companies in the world. They are no longer in the plasma HDTV business, however they made some of the best, most expensive "glass" in the business that was rumored to be used by...
Funk Turntables
Funk Turntables are makers of obscure audiophile turntables including Linn LP12 upgrades....
Furman
Furman has been producing high-quality, professional products since 1974. Our products fall into two broad categories: the audio and video signal processors (on which the company was founded) and the innovative AC power conditioning and distribution products for which we...
Furutech
Japanese made audiophile AC power chords and connectors including carbon fiber technology....
Galactron
Galactron is an Italian electronics manufacturer that is still in business but best remembered for a 1960s/70s preamp that came with a "throttle" as a volume control....
GamuT Audio
GamuT Audio is a very well respected maker of audiophile electronics from Denmark. GamuT Audio offers CD players, Preamps, Integrated amps, Power amps and speakers for their very high end lineup of products....
Garrard
Garrard is one of the oldest names in turntables. Garrard is a British company that produced legendary 301 and 401 broadcast-grade record decks as well as budget models that were eaten up by audiophiles in the early days of the...
Garrott Brothers
Garrott Brothers is an Ill-fated Australian firm that modified cartridges in 1980s but is no longer in business in the audiophile world today....
Gemme Audio
A Canadian newcomer to the speaker market. They make traditional but very expensive dynamic loudspeakers....
Genelec
Genelec is an absolute force in the professional audio world and have been making significant inroads in the world of consumer speakers. While audiophiles have fought the idea of powered speakers, these speakers come with all of the amp power...
Genesis Technologies
Founded in 1991 by Infinity founder Arnie Nudell, PS Audio founder Paul McGowan, and Audio Alchemy founder Mark Schifter, Genesis Technologies has since undergone ownership and management changes but continues to produce some of the world's highest end loudspeaker products...
German Physics
These extreme speakers come from the mold of say MBL with 360 degree radiating drivers and amazing build quality. If you were going to go off the beaten path for some very high end speakers, I could see you ending...
Gershman Acoustics
Gershman Acoustics makes striking looking, pyramid shaped audiophile loudspeakers. Eli Gershman is the founder and lead designer of Gershman Acoustics which is best known for products like speakers such as the Gershman Acoustics Black Swan, Gershman Acoustics Gap 828, Gershman...
Gibson Guitar
Gibson Guitar is known best for the Les Paul however increasingly as the company becomes more of a luxury goods player and less of a musical instruments (MI) company, Gibson is creating jukeboxes and other music and AV components for...
Gingko Audio
Makers of unique audiophile isolation devices that use blue balls and acrylic foundations....
Go Video
Go Video is a brand that came to prominence in the 1990's making VCR and VCR-DVD player combo units that mainstream consumers simply ate up. They loved the low prices and thoughtful designs that protected their legacy media collections while...
Gobel Audio
Gobel Audio are German makers of very cool looking lifestyle speakers. Their Modul line are hot looking on-wall speakers. The Gobel Audio Detaille speakers are monitor speakers with very unique stands. They also offer a line of Gobel Audio cables...
Golden Middle Audio
Golden Middle Audio is a Russian maker of audiophile tube amps. They are best known for their Expressive MK2 power amp and an odd-looking Sessies preamp/phono stage. Golden Middle Audio isn't the sexiest looking gear made like Gamut or Copland...
Goldenote
Goldenote is a 100 percent over the top audiophile source component and electronics company. Goldenote was founded in 1992 in Italy and is best known for their innovate dampening systems as well as their tube Compact Disc players for audiophile...
Goldmund
Founded in 1978 as a tonearm manufacturer, Goldmund went on to develop an ultra high-end line of complete audio systems under the "Swiss Made" moniker, utilizing radical design concepts, premium materials, and uncompromising production standards. Goldmund has lost its distribution...
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GRAAF
GRAAF is a high-end, Italian maker of tube electronics created by Giovanni Mariani. They are best known for products like the GRAAF GM200 power amp which has beautiful lines. GRAAF is also known for their 5050 amp....
Gradient
An audiophile loudspeaker company once reviewed by Stereophile. They have no website and little if any domestic distribution....
Grado
Family owned since the 1950s, Grado Labs havas been one of the most respected and venerable audio companies. Initially famous for its phono catridges and now a well-respected name in headphones and portable audio products, Grado owns 48 patents relating...
Graham Engineering
Graham Engineering makes extreme performance tonearms for turntables....
Gram-Deck
Gram-Deck is a British company in the 1950s and 1960s that produced a module which slipped over the spindle of a turntable to turn it into an open-reel recorder. Gram-Deck is no longer around any more....
Grand Prix Audio
Grand Prix Audio makes some of the nicest and most expensive performance originated equipment racks on the market today. They argue that vibration coming into your system is as big a problem as any of the shortcomings of your system....
Grandview Screen Company
Based in Canada and China, Grandview, founded in 1998, produces fixed, fastfold, portable, manual, tab-tensioned, tripod mountable, and motorized projection screens, with RoHS compliance and CE, UL and ISO9001 certifications. They hold several patents in numerous countries and emphasize green...
Granite Audio
Arizona-based tube company that seems to make tube amps and electronics as well as CD players out of granite or composite looking materials. It has a very unique look and it extreme fringe audiophile in terms of its appeal....
Great American Sound (GAS)
Founded by legendary audio designer James Bongiorno (of SAE and Sumo fame) in 1974, Great American Sound produced a series of amplifiers and preamplifiers (and one phono cartridge) that created a great cult following as well as garnered massive, worldwide...
Green Mountain Audio
Wild looking audiophile speakers that are designed to achieve time coherence for the listener....
Griffin Audio
Griffin Audio make iPod accessories for audiophile and Consumer Electronic use including the iMic and other USB oriented devices....
Groove Tubes
Groove Tubes specializes in all things tube, from individual tubes to complete tube products, complemented by testing and product maintenance services....
Gryphon
Founded in 1985, Gryphon products are designed and manufactured in Denmark, and feature a cost-no-object approach utilizing premium materials and unique cosmetics, mated to a simple, minimalist circuit design approach. At one point Dynaudio was importing the brand into the...
GTE Audio
GTE Audio is a German audiophile electronics company that makes dramatic looking, triangular products physically unlike anything you've ever seen. Beyond their shape, GTE Audio is best known for their Trinity Amp....
Guitammer Company
The Guitammer Company is the parent company behind the industry-famous Buttkicker tactile transducer....
GURU Pro Audio
Very cool looking Swedish professional audio speakers that cross over nicely into the serious audiophile market....
Gutwire Audio Cables
Gutwire makes audiophile speaker cables and interconnects using cold welding (AKA crimping)....
Hadcock
Hadcock has been making extreme performance tonearms for over 25 years....
Hafler
Founded in 1972 by audio design legend and Dynaco founder David Hafler, Hafler produced a series of affordable, reliable, critically acclaimed solid-state and MOSFET amplifiers and preamplifiers. Hafler also pioneered very early work in surround sound, including matrix configurations. Today,...
Halcro
Based in Austrialia, Halco is an audiophile company that came to prominence in the early 2000's from the brain trust of a mine sweeper company. Their $30,000 monoblock amps received a review that called them "The Best Amplifiers in the...
Hales Design Group
Hales Design Group was a Southern California based manufacturer of somewhat value priced speakers. The company failed as most speaker companies have taken their development and production overseas - most notably to China. Paul Hales, Hales Design Group's founder, is...
Hannspree
Hannspree is a lifestyle oriented marker of consumer electronics devices - specifically themed HDTVs. If you are looking for a 32 inch LCD HDTV that's shaped like a lobster for your kid's room - you are going to be looking...
Hansen Audio
Lars Hansen has made splash in the very competitive world of ultimate audiophile speakers competing in some cases with the likes of Wilson Audio and JM Labs in the $100,000 plus category. Hansen has also gained some solid dealers in...
Harbeth
British speakers known for their use in broadcast applications. Harbeth also cross over to audiophile applications but are not widely sold in the United States....
Harley Music Productions
Record producer and audiophile veteran, Joe Harley is known for engineering and producing countless audiophile records for JVC Music, AudioQuest Music and beyond....
Harman Kardon
One of the most recognized names in the high fidelity industry, Harman Kardon introduced a number of product concepts to the world, starting in 1954 with the first mono receiver, the Festival D1000, and in 1958 with the first stereo...
Harmonic Resolution Systems
Harmonic Resolution Systems makes very performance oriented vibration and isolation products for audiophile use including a record weight and products designed to reduce chassis noise....
Harmonix
Harmonix is a an Asian line of extreme audiophile isolation devices for the ultimate level tweaking....
Harmony Remote
Owned by computer accessory company Logitech, Harmony is one of the coolest new companies to hit the market. If you can use a web browser, you can program a custom remote control for your system. It's that simple and customers...
Hawk Audio
Do it yourself tube amps and audiophile electronics for those who find the fun in audiophila based around building their own rig....
HeadAmp Audio Electronics
HeadAmp makes specialty audiophile headphone amps and preamps....
HeadRoom
Founded in 1992, Headroom specializes in all things headphone, from headphones to their own custom designed amplifiers to carrying cases. Headroom designs numerous complete systems, and likely has a solution for any portable listening need....
Heath Company
For many Baby Boomers, their first foray into audiophila started with a do-it-yourself Heath kit system. Today, DIY audio isn't as popular as it was in the get-a-man-on-the-moon crazed 1960's although there could be a strong argument made for a...
Heed Audio
German made electronics including turntable power supplies, amps and beyond. Very slick looking components....
Helius Designs
Makers of very slick looking tonearms. It's too bad their website doesn't even come close to matching the industrial design of their obscure products. Corrupted fonts make us think of rough sounding audio. It's just not a good message to...
Herron Audio
Herron Audio offers high-end amplifiers, preamplifiers, and cables, and utilizes both tube and solid state technologies into its designs....
Heybrook HiFi
Speaker company from the United Kingdom that has been around since 1978. There is not much distribution in the United States but they make a fine loudspeaker by audiophile standards....
High Water Sound
High Water Sound is an importer of obscure audiophile products with one slick website. Some of their brands include: Aspara Acoustics, Horning Hybrid, WSS Kabel, Pure Sound, Odeon, Thorens Systems, Tron Electric, TW-Acustic and Pole Star....
Highland Audio
Highland Audio is a French maker of audiophile and lifestyle loudspeakers that are notably narrow in their footprint. Highland Audio also makes subwoofers and home theater or 7.1 systems. Highland Audio is best known for their Aingel, Oran, SEIS and...
Hitachi
Founded in Japan in 1910, incredibly diverse Hitachi makes products and solutions across a variety of industries, from trains, microscopes, elevators, medical devices, and even nuclear reactors, to consumer electronics such as televisions, appliances, phones, computers, and cameras....
Holfi
Holfi is a Danish maker of notably gold-colored high end audiophile electronics. They are best known for products like the Xandra MP player that is battery powered as well as the Holfi Vitalus....
Holographic Audio
Very slick looking audiophile grade line level devices including preamps and amps....
Horning Hybrid
Makers of large format ultra-audiophile turntables with no distribution in the United States but significant distribution worldwide....
Hovland Company
Designed and built in California, Hovland's amplifier, preamplifier, and cable products are built to exacting standards and incorporate designs and philosophies refined over 25 years....
HSU Research
Founded in 1991, HSU Research specializes in subwoofers and has remained a cult favorite for its performance quality....
Huff Loudspeakers
Huff Loudspeakers are designed by John Huff in Iowa. The brand offers numerous audiophile SKUs and finishes, and a longstanding tradition of performance. Huff speakers are not widely distributed in the United States and sell mostly overseas....
Hughes
One of the world's leading satellite and wireless system companies and owner of DirecTV, Hughes Electronics has a very unique and interesting history. Originally an aviation company and defense contractor founded by the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, GM bought the...
Hulu
Hulu is NBC and Universal's video download service. Hulu currently allows users to watch low resolution movies at no cost however they have ads that unlike TiVo can not be skipped. Unlike Google's You Tube service which is more user...
Hyperion Sound Design, Inc.
Makers of speakers that seem inspired at least in shape by the Wilson WATT Puppy design as they are narrow in their footprint with removable, pyramid sized tops. There are electronics in the line as well as bookshelf sized speakers,...
Ice H2O Audio
Ice H20 Audio makes digital amps using the very popular Ice Chip from B&O much like designs from Bel Canto and NuForce. Their amps are very nicely priced and report tremendous power ratings....
iHomeAudio/SDI Technologies
iHome makes clock radios, portable audio systems and computer speakers with a specific emphasis on integration with Apple's iPhone and or iPod touch....
Image Loudspeakers Ltd.
Image Loudspeakers are makers of loudspeakers from New Zealand that include the Image Loudspeakers 400 Series, the Supreme Range of speakers and a line of Image Loudspeakers active subwoofers....
Imerge
Imerge is best known as an OEM maker of server based, hard drive media playback systems. Imerge did private label some of their servers recently under their own name....
IMF
Initials stand for Irving M. Fried, but IMF was a British producer of true transmission-line speakers; Bud Fried helped found the company and distributed them Stateside. IMF was also an early experimenter with surround sound via Ambisonics technology....
Impact Technology
Located in San Diego, California, Sonic Impact focuses on portable speakers and personal listening applications using NXT flat-panel speaker technology....
Inca
Inca is a maker of home theater and HDTV lifts and presentation devices. They also make lifts for the marine market....
Induction Dynamics
Induction Dynamics makes a full range of home theater and audiophile speakers that are very nicely designed....
Inex innovation
Inex Innovation is a maker of audiophile grade fiber optic cables. Fiber optic cables are able to carry incredible bandwidth of information and are quickly becoming the choice for 1080p video for runs over 10 feet. Inex Innovation yields the...
Infinity
Founded by loudspeaker design legend Arnie Nudell, Infinity is one of the most legendary brands in audio history. You could argue that without Infinity, there would be no high end audio as they were instrumental to getting high end audio...
InFocus
InFocus makes a wide range of presentation and entry level front projection HDTV projectors....
Innersound
Founded in 1996 and located in Colorado, Innersound offers both electronics such as amplifiers and preamplifiers as well as loudspeakers featuring hybrid designs of electrostatic and dynamic speaker technologies....
Integra
Integra is Onkyo's higher end electronics line. Integra has led the way in high performance HDMI receivers and AV preamps. While audiophile electronics companies have floundered to get their act together, Integra is delivering for clients with real world HDMI...
Inteset
Inteset makes media center PCs that come complete with Blu-ray playback and storage and use Window's Vista operating system. Some of their notable products include the TeraRAID XV-NAS and the Vana VA6420-si media server....
Intuitive Design
Honestly, these audiophile speakers could easily be put in a contest for the worst looking speakers on the market. With industrial design reminiscent of Goldmund speakers from the 1980's, Intuitive Design offers speakers that look like they belong behind a...
Irwin Seating Co.
Irwin Seating specializes in actual theater seating like you would expect to get at the cineplex or at a sporting stadium....
ISF - Imaging Science Foundation
Founded by Joe Kane and run today by Joel Silver, the ISF is a company that trains today's video calibrators how to get the most from HDTVs, projectors and other video devices. The ISF, much like THX, also works with...
Island Audio
Founded as an upgrade supplier to Audio Alchemy products, Channel Islands Audio now offers a wide variety of products including upgrade products for Squeezebox products, D/A Converters, and Passive Line Controllers....
Isophon
Isophon is a German maker of high end audiophile floorstanding speakers such as the Arabba who's theme is "Welcome To The Pleasure Dome" (seriously). The Arraba speakers are tunable to the room via EQ and have received nice reviews in...
Isotek
Isotek is a very high end audiophile AC power company fro the United Kingdom. This audiophile award winning AC power product company is known for their Isotek Evo3 Sirius bus strip, the Isotek Mini Sub and the Isotek GII Titan...
JA Michell
JA Michell is an audiophile brand of extreme turntables from the United Kingdom. They are best known for the JA Michell Gyrodec, the JA Michell TechnoDec, the JA Michell Orbe turntable and the JA Michell TechnoArm tone arm products....
Jadis
Jadis is a French maker of audiophile electronics that may or may not still be in business in 2008. In the late 1980's this line of exotic audiophile electronics was quite the buzz. Today it has practically zero distribution in...
James Loudspeaker
Loudspeakers is one of the newer speaker success stories in the AV business. They make innovative in-wall and floorstanding speakers that people really love....
Jamo
Jamo makes some of the most sexy speaker designs on the market today. Recently Klipsch bought out Jamo to add to their growing list of speaker and electronics brands under the Kilpsch umbrella....
Jasmine Audio
Chinese made audiophile tube amps that don't really show images on their website....
Jason
Jason is a little known 1950s/1960s British tube amp manufacturer that today is no longer in business in the audiophile or professional audio market....
JBE
JBE is a direct-drive turntable made in UK. Once rival to Linn, JBE tables featured a platter made of six aluminium discs, and a Plexiglas base....
JBL
As a young boy, James B. Lansing built a radio transmitter (which the Navy ended up confiscating), and the rest is history. After spending time in radio engineering, Mr. Lansing, with some other family members, began building loudspeaker drivers and...
Jean Marie Reynaud
Located in France and founded in 1967, Jean-Marie Reynaud offers a complete range of high end loudspeakers utilizing a variety of design principles including bass reflex and transmission line, with custom drivers and numerous finishes....
Jeff Rowland Design
A high-end audio benchmark for over 20 years and famous for its acoustically inert chassis design, Jeff Rowland builds robust two-channel electronics such as amplifiers, preamplifiers, and integrated amplifiers, some of which incorporate innovative features such as battery power supplies...
Jelco
Jelco makes audiophile tonearms....
JENA Labs
JENA Labs makes networked AC power cables and other audiophile cable solutions....
Jensen
In 1915, founder Peter Jensen invented the loudspeaker, and ever since ascended to one of the most recognized names in mobile audio with its variety of mobile loudspeaker and electronics solutions....
JL Audio
JL Audio is best known for their car audio line but they have in the past few years made serious inroads in the world of audiophile and home theater subwoofers that both have room correction and tremendous power, including the...
JM Lab
Founded in 1980 by engineer Jacques Mahul, JM Lab (a brand under the company Focal) went on to dominate the French loudspeaker business. Focal performs all of its design and manufacturing in-house, and has earned worldwide industry acclaim for its...
JM Reynaud
JM Reynaud was founded in 1967 but today still is a relatively obscure brand in the United States. They have a large facility for loudspeaker design in France and are best known for products like the JM Reynaud Duet, JM...
JohnBlue Audio
Chinese made audiophile bookshelf loudspeakers....
Jolida
Emerging out of the tube electronics movement of the mid-1990s, Jolida designs and manufactures tube-based CD players, amplifiers, preamplifiers, and integrated amplifiers. Jolida finds itself as one of the more affordable audiophile tube solutions, thus the choice for the value-minded...
Joseph Audio
One of the most popular high end loudspeaker lines in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Joseph Audio offers five different models including a center channel speaker....
Joule Electra
Joule Electra is an audiophile tube brand based in North Augusta, South Carolina....
JPS Labs
Audiophile speaker cables, interconnects and other AV cables....
JPW Loudspeakers
JPW offers a wide range loudspeakers featuring custom drivers and capable of delivering exceptional performance for many types of listeners from audiophiles to gamers....
JSE
Makers of the "Infinite Slope" Loudspeakers....
Juicy Music Audio
Manufacturers of esoteric audiophile tube gear from Eureka, California (near the Oregon border)....
Jumping Cactus Loudspeakers
Oddly, Jumping Cactus speakers look nothing like a cactus. They are a large scale audiophile speaker system of interconnected square and rectangular boxes that sit on a stand....
Jupiter Audio
Audiophile oriented loudspeakers from Illinois....
JVC
Founded in 1927, Victor Company of Japan originally made records, phonographs, radios, and eventually Japan's first television. The company invented the VHS video tape format, one of the most significant inventions in consumer electronics history. JVC continued its innovation in...
KEF
One of the most successful British loudspeaker companies ever. In the late 1980's they were the leading brand of speakers from the UK in the American market. In 1990's they had distribution issues that allowed players like Canada's Paradigm and...
Keith Monks
Keith Monks is a British firm that invented one of the first successful LP cleaning machines. Still in business today, Keith Monks is headed by Keith's son and works with the enthusiast crowd....
Kenwood
Founded in 1961, at the height of its popularity Kenwood was a staple of the mid-fi home and mobile audio and home theater markets in the 80s and 90s. Today, Kenwood does business mainly in the mobile audio sector....
Key Digital Systems
Key Digital Systems make routers, distribution amps and other advanced switching devices for home theater and home automation devices....
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Kharma
Dutch company specializing in high end loudspeakers, amplifiers, and cables...
Kimber Kable
Kimber Kable is the brainchild of Ray Kimber. While their roots are in braided audiophile cables, Kimber has HOT HDMI cables that are as good as anyone's in the marketplace today....
Kinergetics
Kinergetics, founded by engineer Tony DiChiro, was one of the first companies to make a high end, audiophile grade AV preamp. Designed to work with standard two channel preamps in an audio or "tape" loop, the Kinergetics preamp allowed early...
Kinetic Audio
Ultra high-end loudspeaker and driver manufacturer, with models spanning many categories including Home, Architectural, and Car. Kinetic also offers loudspeaker parts and accessories....
Kinetics Noise Control
Kinetics Noise Control is a professional acoustical treatment company that has solutions for HVAC systems, absorption, vibration and much more....
Kirksaeter
Norwegian speakers that have been made since 1958....
Kiseki
Kiseki makes a very high-end Japanese moving-coil cartridge for the audiophile and vinyl loving market....
Klein Hummel
Speakers known best for professional audio applications but sometimes cross over to audiophile applications....
KLH
Founded by Henry Kloss (among others) in 1957, KLH produced many fine loudspeakers in its early years but was most famous for its Model Eight table top radio, and Model Eleven portable stereo system....
Klimo
German made tube electronics that look very cool....
Klipsch
Founded in 1946 by Paul Klipsch, Klipsch built upon horn loaded speaker technology by bringing it to the home in smaller form factors. The company's debut product, the Klipschorn, received a patent in 1945 and still remains in production today....
Klyne Audio Arts
A very small maker of audiophile electronics, famous for a state-of-the-art preamp in the early 1990s....
Knoll Systems
Canadian Knoll Systems has one of the most diverse product offerings of any brand on this list from HDMI cables to DLP HDTV projectors to chipsets....
Koetsu
Japanese maker of LP and analog devices such as cartridges....
Kora Electronics
Founded in France in 1990, Kora specializes in high-end tube electronics such as amplifiers, preamplifiers, integrated amplifiers, and D/A Converters....
KR Audio
Low Watt audiophile tube amps and electronics from the Czech Republic....
Krell
Founded in 1980 by Dan and Rondi D'Agostino, Krell stands alongside a handful of other companies atop the high-end audio and home theater industry as one of the most recognized, respected, and best reviewed brands in its history. Famous for...
Krix Loudspeakers
Established in Australia in 1974 by Scott Krix, Krix started as a movie theater loudspeaker company, and has since moved into home theater and architectural models, as well....
Kubala-Sosna Research
Kubala-Sosna Research is a company founded I the 1990's by Howard Sosna and Joe Kubala. They make very high performance audiophile interconnects, speaker cables and aftermarket power cables. The core of their technology is called "OptimiZ" Architecture. Kubala-Sosna Research is...
Kuzma
Kuzma is a French maker of very high end turntables, tone arms and other analog devices such as the Stabi Reference Turntable, the Kuzma Stabi XL, the Kuzma Stogi Reference Tone Arm and the Airline....
Kyocera
A Japanese conglomerate that at one point made audiophile electronics, specifically CD players....
La Luce
La Luce is a low energy storage, direct coupled, non-suspended design by Judith Spotheim-Koreneeff, of Eindhoven, in The Netherlands. It is driven by a stand-alone motor and is one of the rare products in the audiophile community designed by a...
LaHave Audio Products
Highly obscure audiophile bookshelf speakers marketed to the audiophile market without the benefit of their own website. LaHave Audio is based in Nova Scotia, Canada....
Lamm Industries
Designed and manufactured in the USA, Lamm Industries has produced some of the world's most ambitious hybrid high-end audio electronics since 1993, utilizing three US patents. Lamm products are used and loved by other audiophile companies at trade shows as...
Lamphear Electronics
Based in upstate New York, this off-beat audiophile brand of tube amps prides themselves in making tube electronics that are designed to past the test of time. Most tube amps need constant tweaking and calibration. Lamphear amps claim to be...
Lansche Audio
A lifestyle and performance oriented speaker brand from German, Lansche Audio is known best for their "plasma" tweeter designs. These speakers look very slick in terms of their industrial design and have gorgeous wood finishes....
LAT International
Audiophile interconnect and AC power cables made in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Ironically, Cherry Hill has no hills and very few if any cherry trees. The influence of diner food (particularly the Sage Diner) and the music of Bon Jovi...
Laufer Teknik
From the out-of-the-box school of loudspeaker design come the Laufer Teknik speakers which are absolutely artful to the eye and very not-speaker-like by design. Laufer Teknik has a full line of audiophile electronics to match their gorgeous looking, tall and...
Lavardin
Beautifully built French audiophile electronics including the Model 6/1 preamp, the Model a80 power amp and a full line of audiophile cables....
Leak
Harold Leak was once one of the biggest amp and speaker makers in the UK. Leak produced the iconic Leak Sandwich speaker and a range of now-coveted amps in the audiophile collector market. Leak is no longer in business....
Leben Hi-Fi Stereo Co.
An off-brand Japanese tube electronics company that has wide distribution into global markets....
Lector
Lector is Italian made ultra-audiophile electronics. Lector is best known for their tube-valve class A preamp and hybrid-tube/mosfet power amps. They also make a tube/vaue Compact Disc player and DVD player....
Leema Acoustics
Audiophile speakers from the U.K. including the Xero bookshelf speaker system....
Legacy Audio
A pioneer in the direct buy distribution of high end audio, Legacy Audio has been designing and manufacturing world-class loudspeakers in a variety of finishes and configurations for over 20 years....
Legend Acoustics
Small and or narrow loudspeakers designed for today's home theater and modern lifestyle applications. Legend Acoustics are designed and built in Australia....
Legend Audio Design
Founded in 1992 in Berkeley, California, Legend Audio (under the "Von Gaylord" name) produces tube-based high-end amplifiers and preamplifiers as well as loudspeakers and interconnect cables....
Lehmann Audio
Lehmann Audio is a German manufacturer of phono stages and other audiophile electronics such as the Black Cube Statement, The Linear USB and Silver Cube amp....
Lentek
Lentek is a UK speaker manufacturer from audiophile history. Many of Lentek designers went on to found another speaker company called Audiolab....
Leon Speakers
Leon speakers has come to market with speakers designed for today's flat HDTV market. In the past three or four years, Leon has been able to build quite a following receiving rave reviews from the likes of Brent Butterworth of...
LessLoss
Very slick looking audiophile AC power cables made in Lithuania....
Leviton
Leviton is a lighting control company frequently used by home theater installers....
Lexicon
Since 1971, Lexicon has produced some of the world's most revered and adopted professional audio products and technologies. Its LOGIC 7 adds realism to home and movie theater movie playback, and its host of professional audio mixers and related products...
LG
LG or "Life's Good" is a Korean conglomerate that makes some of the most well respected HDTVs, Blu-ray players and other consumer electronics goods. LG also makes many other appliances and hardware for around the home....
Liberty Wire & Cable
Liberty Wire is respected line of installation cables and wire used mostly by custom installers....
Linar Audio
Canadian made audiophile electronics company known for Class-A tube amp designs and the Preamplifier 2 stereo preamp....
Linear Acoustics
Linear Acoustic offers professional and studio audio products that help manage and tailor the sound quality and loudness of television broadcasts....
Linkwitz Lab
When I say the founder of this company looks like Bob Carver - I am not kidding but I am scared. Their off-the-wall audiophile speakers are not for the faint of heart. One looks like it is more of a...
Linn
Founded in 1971 by Ivor Tiefenbrun in Glasgow, Scotland, Linn's foundation firmly rests on a love of music, and the benefits it provides to people when enjoyed at its highest reproductive level. It executes this belief with formidable, exhaustive engineering...
Lipinski Sound Corp.
Pro audio monitoring speakers that come from inside the studio best describes Lipinski Sound. Some audiophiles have started to bring Lipinski into their listening rooms to get that right from the master tape sound....
Lithos Acoustics
Wildly designed loudspeakers from India. They aren't outsourced to India - they are made and designed there. They have very nice industrial design on products such as the Kontra speakers....
Living Voice
Audiophile speakers from the United Kingdom that use the Bespoke design best describes Living Voice....
Loewe
Lowve (pronounced lu-ve) was a European video company that brought B&O style to a new line of high end HDTV products that didn't sell very successfully in the United States. Lowve is now out of the U.S. market and it...
Loewe
Lowve (pronounced lu-ve) was a European video company that brought B&O style to a new line of high end HDTV products that didn't sell very successfully in the United States. Lowve is now out of the U.S. market and it...
Logic
Logic was a British maker of a turntable from early 1980s. Logic is no longer making gear for the consumer electronics and or audiophile world today....
Logitech
Logitech is the computer giant behind the slick and relevant Harmony Remote controls and media servers like the Transporter. Harmony remotes are a true break through in Universal remote design as any consumer with a computer can program a Harmony...
Loiminchay, Inc.
Inspired by a high end line of pens, Loiminchay speakers are some of the most dramatic looking (some say outright ugly) speakers on the market today. The Kandinsky, inspired by the composer, comes with a huge exposed driver and a...
Lovan Audio
Makers of some of the most well respected equipment racks for audiophile and home theater use. They also have a variety of speaker stands used for some of the best brands of speakers....
Lowther Loudspeakers
Legendary maker of drivers and odd-looking finished speaker products from the United Kingdom....
LSA Group
Audiophile electronics, bookshelf speakers and more from Nashville, Tennessee....
Lucid Acoustics
Makers of custom speakers as well as pre-designed loudspeaker systems for audiophile use based in St. George, Utah....
Lumen White
Slick looking German speakers with curved cabinets....
Luxman
Founded in 1925, Luxman initially began in radio and eventually created a worldwide business as a premium parts manufacturer. Luxman then produced many well-regarded products in the hi-fi boom of the late 70s and early 80s such as its luxurious,...
Lyngdorf Audio
Lyngdorf Audio makes some of the most high end electronics and speaker systems for audiophile use. Their partnership with piano maker Steinway has been of most note in the past few years....
Lyra
Founded in 1983, Lyra, run in Japan by audio distribution legend Stig Bjorge, produces ultra high end preamplifiers and phono catridges and accessories, and was made famous in the 1990s by its Parnassus phono cartridge....
M&K Sound
Miller and Kreisel began as a labor of love of a brilliant young recording engineer named Ken Kreisel, who sought to accurately re-produce the low frequency response of audio recordings. He partnered with legendary high-end audio dealer Jonas Miller of...
Mach 1 Acoustics
Little is known about Mach 1 Acoustics at this point. They are seemingly out of business....
Machina Dynamica
Operating in the dark world of audiophile tweaks, Machine Dynamica makes and sells everything from digital clocks to pebbles that are purportedly designed to make your audiophile system sound better. Can you say "M'pingo disc"?...
Mactone
Japanese made tube power amps. Company has been in business since 1964 but has little to no representation in the United States....
Madison Fielding, Inc.
This speaker company makes transducers that double as garden planters....
Madrigal
Madrigal, founded by Sandy Berlin and Mike Kay (of Lyric Hifi in New York), was the parent company of Mark Levinson and Proceed. Today, these brands (along with Revel and Lexicon) fall under the umbrella of Harman Specialty Group -...
Magico
Dynamic speakers from the audiophile world that are made in the United States....
Magnan Cables
Designing and manufacturing high end interconnects and speaker cables since 1990...
Magnat
High end home electronics, loudspeaker, and car audio manufacturer based in Germany...
Magnepan
Founded in 1969 by Jim Winey, Magnepan refined the concept of electrostatic speakers with its "Magenplanar" design. Incredibly thin and sonically transparent, this design for many has defined musicality over the last 40 years, and ironically has found an equally...
Magnum Dynalab
Founded in 1984, Magnum Dynalab produces some of the world's best FM tuners, as well as XM Satellite Radio products and integrated amplifiers....
Manger GMBH
Well regarded audiophile speakers from Germany with practically zero representation in the United States. Manger is known for odd-shaped drivers....
Manley Laboratories
Since the late 1980s, Manley Labs' tube-based source components, amplifers, preamplifers, and professional audio products have retained a remarkably consistent presence in their respective markets....
Mapleshade
Mostly known as an audiophile record label - there is a cult following for Mapleshade's affordable speaker cables. HomeTheaterReview.com's Andrew Robinson swears by them and he is no audiophile tweaker....
Marantz
One of the first, best known and most respected high end audio and home theater brands, Saul Marantz founded his company in 1952 and helped pioneer generations of performance excellence. Marantz's Model 7 preamplifier, Model 8 and 9 power amplifiers,...
Marchand Electronics
Kit based and utilitarian looking crossovers, amps and other audiophile electronics. Think "modern day Heath Kit"....
Marigo Audio Lab
Makers of audiophile cables, power cables and accessories. Marigo also has some video cable products in their lineup....
Mark and Daniel Audio Labs
Makers of little known audiophile bookshelf or mini monitor speakers....
Mark Levinson
Founded in 1972 by legendary audio designer Mark Levinson, Mark Levinson debuted with its MLC-1 moving coil cartridge and JC-1 preamplifier (named for its designer, the legendary John Curl who went on to design products for Parasound). After being acquired...
Marsh Sound Design
Richard Marsh is a well known and very well respected designer of audiophile and home theater electronics. He has designed products for many gigantic audio companies. Marsh Sound Design is his private label brand of gear....
Marshall Choong Audio
Very distinctive looking audiophile speakers from the United Kingdom. Some of their speaker and sub combos have the look of a Richard Serra sculpture. They have little to zero distribution in the United States....
Marten Design
Nicely finished, high end audiophile loudspeakers from Sweden including the Coltrane line of speakers that bare a striking resemblance to the shape and size of a Wilson WATT Puppy speaker yet have a wooden front....
MartinLogan
Martin Logan, founded by Gayle Sanders and Ron Sutherland in Lawrence, Kansas in the 1980's, is today one of the most sought after brands of audiophile and home theater speakers. Their hybrid electrostatic designs make for a thin speaker that...
Mastersound
Italian made tube amps and audiophile electronics....
Matisse
Tube-based amplifiers and preamplifiers made in England...
MaxxHorn
Audiophile horn speakers that are small in size and somewhat critically acclaimed. MaxxHorn sells speakers direct to the consumer....
MBL of America
Made in Germany, MBL has carved a stellar reputation for its handcrafted electronics and loudspeaker products, featuring 360-degree radiation patterns, proprietary driver technologies, and exotic modern cabinetry....
McAlister Audio
Affordable Canadian made tube electronics for the audiophile....
McCormack
Makers of audiophile solid state electronics from Virginia....
McIntosh
Founded in the late 1940s and one of the original high-end audio companies, McIntosh Labs holds 35 patents and has produced some of the industry's most valuable and formidable technologies and inventions, as well as numerous celebrated products and solutions....
Meadowlark Audio
A speaker line so obscure that they don't come up under a Google search for their own name. Their Kestrel2 speakers have received some critical acclaim....
Mel Audio
From Italy, Mel Audio manufacturers a full range of stylish components, including a CD player made of two cylinders, and two-chassis power amp fronted with misty-white acrylic....
Melos
Melos was an audiophile maker of solid state electronics that were highly regarded by the press. Today Melos is seemingly out of business....
Meridian
Meridian is based near Cambridge, UK, and was founded in 1977 by Bob Stuart and Allen Boothroyd. With over 30 years history of innovation and development of the highest quality consumer home entertainment systems, the award-winning company is widely recognised...
Meridian-Faroudja
Founded by Yves and Isabel Faroudja in 1971, Faroudja Laboratories developed a range of revolutionary video processing technologies that helped to improve the inferior NTSC television standard used in the US, as well as its corresponding source formats such as...
Merlin Music Systems
Founded in 1982, Merlin Music Systems designs and manufactures loudspeakers more to continually refine a handful of models rather than produce many....
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Merrill
An advanced turntable designer and manufacturer utilizing industrial and aerospace technology...
Merrill-Sciliia Research
Formerly an audiophile company that seems to be defunct. Their MerrillAudio.com URL is a parked domain and there is little sign the company is still in business....
Messenger
Messenger is an way-off-the-grid ultra-audiophile tube electronics brand that is sold by very few dealers worldwide. Their Southern California dealer, Acoustic Image claims that Messenger is "the best tube gear in the world". I have a feeling Audio Research, McIntosh...
Metaxas Audio Systems
Founded in Australia by Kostas Metaxas, MAS designs and manufactures a variety of high end amplifiers, preamplifiers, integrated amplifiers, and cables, and uses extensive recording studio experience and technology in its R&D....
Metronome
Founded in France in 1987, Metronome Technologie produces high end digital source components such as D/A Converters, CD Transports, and CD Players, many with unique cosmetics....
Michael Yee Audio
Utilitarian looking phono preamps and power amps built in Mount Shasta, California....
Michell Engineering
British made audiophile high end turntables, tone arms and source components including the TechoDec, Orbe and GyroDec turntables....
Micro Seiki
A high end Japanese turntable company who gained prominence in the 1970's, with, among other products, its then-unheard-of $10,000 SZ-1 turntable. It's not clear if they are in business at this stage....
MicroMega
Seemingly defunct makers of audiophile electronics and CD players....
Middle Atlantic Products
Middle Atlantic makes the most well respected custom AV racks. Used mostly by custom home theater installers, there is a great sense of pride in carefully rack mounting a home theater or home automation system specifically using custom faceplates, special...
Mimetism
Mimetism is a French manufacturer of integrated amp and CD player that boast "French creativity with Swiss engineering". Mimetism is still around today with a really well engineered line of products including the Mimetism 20.1 Compact Disc Player, the Mimetism...
Mirage
A huge presence in the high end loudspeaker markets of the 80s and 90s, Mirage, now owned by Klipsch, continues to produce well-regarded products using its Omnipolar technology for 360-degree-like sound....
Mission Loudspeakers
Founded in the UK in 1977, Mission pioneered polymer-based loudspeaker driver development and remains a well-respected loudspeaker brand throughout the world....
Mistral
Makers of wild looking audiophile speakers that seem to take more than one design cue from high end Bowers and Wilkins designs....
MIT Cables
MIT or "Musical Interface Technologies" was one of the first successful lines of very high end audiophile cables in the mid to late 1980s. The company lost some of its sock when lead designer, Jack Sumner and his wife Karen,...
Mitek
Mitek is the parent company behind MTX speakers, Bass Slammer, Esoteric Audio cables and DCM speakers....
Mitsubishi
A pioneer in the direct view, rear-projection and high-definition television industry, and maker of some of the first advanced VCRs, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America remains a force in the market despite substantially increased competition....
Miu-Tech Systems
Makers of audiophile mini monitor and very sexy tube electronics from Hong Kong....
Miyabi
Miyabi is an exotic Japanese maker of moving-coil cartridges. They do not have a well promoted English website. Miyabi is a very exotic brand used by only the most well-heeled international audiophiles....
Mod Squad
Mod Squad made their own line of electronics for the hardcore audiophile as well as tweaks for people looking to eek a little more performance from their current system. Mod Squad is seemingly out of business today....
ModWright LLC
Makers of tube electronics and capacitors used by companies like Sony for their more audiophile products....
Monarchy Audio
San Francisco-based company producing affordable high-end electronics and digital separates since the early 1990s....
Monitor Audio
Founded in 1982, Monitor Audio pioneered the use of metal cone drivers and continues to produce some of the industry's most respected and consistent lines of loudspeakers....
Monolite Design and Technology
Maker of on-wall, designer oriented speaker systems since 1994....
Monolithic Sound
Passive and active audiophile preamps for audiophile use coming from Northern California....
Monrio
Very obscure audiophile company with no easily found website and or many pages in English. Monrio is built in Italy....
Monster
Founded in 1979 by mechanical engineer Noel Lee, Monster Cable pioneered the concept of high end cables and connective accessories throughout the world. A tremendous innovator as well as marketer, Monster holds over 200 patents worldwide and has broadened its...
Montana Loudspeakers
Designed by Peter Noerbaek, Montana Loudspeakers are constructed from world-class materials and components....
Moon Audio
Moon Audio is an enthusiast favorite brand that makes everything from interconnects to AC power cables to video cables....
Mordaunt Short
British manufacturer of very slick and more mainstream loudspeaker systems. Mordaunt-Short has a significant global distribution and many rave editorial reviews....
Morel Acoustics
Known more for their car audio speakers and OEM raw drivers, Israel-based Morel has made numerous unsuccessful attempts to market speakers in the United States including recent efforts to market adjustable-sized on-wall speakers called the Vario. Their new Fat Lady...
Morrison Audio
Morrison Audio makes point source omni-directional speaker systems....
Moscode, Inc.
Critically acclaimed tube electronics from Vermont....
Moth Audio
American made, low powered single-ended tube amps....
MSB Technology
MSB is best known for modifying mainstream AV gear to audiophile standards....
MSD
Musical Systems Design makes small, pro audio oriented tube-based products....
MTX Audio
MTX is well known in the car audio or "12 volt" market with installers but they also sell some home theater and marine audio products as well....
Mulidine Audio
French made pro audio oriented AV equipment....
Multiplex Technology/Channel Plus
Channel Plus is now called Linear thus named after the consolidation company that also owns the likes of Elan and Sunfire. They make remotes, switchers and many other home theater oriented accessories....
Murata
Murata is a Japanese maker of audiophile and consumer electronics based drivers....
Muse
Very well made audiophile grade electronics with CD players and audiophile source components of specific note....
Music and Sound (mas)
After founding legendary high-end audio retailer Music and Sound in the 1960s, dabbling in manufacturing with Electro Research in the late 1970s, and distributing numerous brands in the 1980s, Mel Schilling turned his attention full-time to the production of specialty...
Music First Audio
Critically acclaimed audiophile electronics from England....
Music Hall
The brainchild of audiophile importer Roy Hall, Music Hall sells sensibly priced electronics and turntables to discerning music lovers....
Music Reference
Small audiophile tube company based in Santa Barbara, California....
Musical Concepts
For the last 25 years, Musical Concepts has specialized in providing world-class modifications for products from companies such as Adcom, B&K, Hafler, Krell, and McIntosh....
Musical Design
Founded in Missouri by audio designer John Hillig, Musical Design emanated from Musical Concepts, a company offering custom modifications for existing electronics products from companies such as Hafler, B&K, Adcom, Audio Research, Krell, Spectral, and Mark Levinson. The company created...
Musical Fidelity
Founded in 1982, Musical Fidelity produces an affordable line of high performance audio and home theater electronics. The company first gained notoriety in the early 1980s for its affordable, minimalist preamplifiers, integrated amplifiers, and Digilog D/A Converter. In the late...
Musicmetre
Musicmetre is a very boutique audiophile cable company that makes high end to somewhat value-priced audiophile interconnects and speaker cables....
Myryad
Myryad offers a complete line of slick, modern high end audio and home theater electronics products including DVD Players, amplifiers, preamplifiers, integrated amplifiers, loudspeakers, and iPod docks....
Mystere USA
Well built and nicely designed tube amps and electronics from Southern California....
N.N Acoustics Engineering
A favorite of the extremist audiophile press, N.N Acoustic Engineering make dynamic loudspeakers such as the Phoenix, the Rubicon and the K2. The speakers are traditional in size and design and feature wood finishes....
NAD
Founded in 1972, New Acoustic Dimension brought a refreshing "dimension" to high-end audio with its affordable, high performance electronics and source components featuring simplistic operation complemented by an elegant, minimalist cosmetic approach....
Nagra
Arguably the most respected professional audio brand in the world, Nagra introduced its first tape recorder, the Nagra I, in 1952, and ever since has built on its success by continually raising the bar in the field of analog and...
Naim Audio
Founded in the UK, Naim Audio products offer high tech features and functionality within a classic, minimalist cosmetic design. Naim's product line once included fine tonearms and now reaches across many categories, including amplifiers, preamplifiers, source components featuring a unique...
Nakamichi
Founded in 1948 by Etsuro Nakamichi, Nakamichi rose to prominence as the most respected and enamored cassette deck designer and manufacturer in history. While Nakamichi extended its design brilliance into the categories of turntables, CD playback, and amplifiers, and car...
Naked Truth Audio
No website. No Google results. Likely out of business....
Navison Audio
Navison Audio makes tube amps and preamps that have the look of furniture with polished woods and luxurious touches. Their tag line is "The Natural Sound"....
NBS Audio Cables
NBS Cables utilize patented technologies to create some of the most exotic, expensive, and best performing interconnects, speaker cable, and power cords on the market....
NEAL
NEAL is a British tape deck manufacturer that still today supplies UK police forces who don't trust digital to stand up in court. The most notable NEAL tape deck is the Neal 8221p....
NEAR
Initially an affordable line of consumer home theater loudspeakers, since its purchase by Bogen Communications, NEAR has specialized in Pro Audio loudspeakers....
Neat Acoustics
Based in the UK and founded by Bob Surgeoner and Paul Ryder, NEAT Acoustics produces loudspeakers using custom made drivers and cabinets, and fine tuned strictly via extensive listening tests over hundreds of hours, which the company believes provides the...
NEC
NEC makes and OEMs flat panel displays and video projectors as part of their involvement in the home theater and consumer electronics market. The company overall is a global conglomerate that offers business products and many other electronic technologies....
Neeper Acoustics
Neeper Acoustics is a small audiophile speaker manufacturer from Denmark that makes fantastically finished speakers that come in almost cartoonish shapes....
Neko Audio
Neko Audio is a San Jose, California-based audiophile company that makes critically acclaimed audiophile products that are sold direct to the consumer. The $1,295 D100 stereo DAC has received rave reviews from the audiophile press....
Neosonik
Neosonik is a leader in wireless speakers system for home theater use. They have been featured on CNN and in other mainstream publications. They have also won a CEA Innovations Award....
Nestrovic Labs
High-end manufacturer of reference loudspeakers, subwoofers, and power amplifiers...
Netflix
Netflix is the most powerful online rental house of home video content including DVD-Video and Blu-ray. Netflix's business model of making a list and having them send you the discs you request goes over very well with consumers. The idea...
Neuance
Neuance makes performance oriented audiophile racks and stands for audiophile products to remove vibration and improve performance....
New York Audio Labs
Founded by legendary audio designer Harvey Rosenberg, New York Audio Labs utilized Julius Futterman's tube-based OTL (Output TransformerLess) circuit, and produced products such as the NB1, NCP1 & 2 Preamps, and the HTMPS Tube Power Supply....
Newform Research
Canadian manufacturer of large format line source loudspeaker system targeted at the audiophile market....
NHT
Founded in 1986, Now Hear This played a big role in the proliferation of affordable high end loudspeaker products in the mid to late 1990s. Featuring a unique 21 degree baffle, the company's debut Model 1 made quite splash, but...
Nikko
Founded in 1948, Nikko Audio products competed with brands like Onkyo, Sony, and Kenwood in the late 70s and throughout the 80s in the mid-fi electronics market, Not as well known as their peers, Nikko Audio products generally received acclaim,...
Niles Audio
Founded in 1978, Niles originally produced switching systems for audio retailers to easily demonstrate products. The company then evolved into whole-house audio swithcing and distribution systems, and eventually went on to dominate the then-infant custom installation industry. Today, Niles remains...
Nirvana Audio
Nirvana produces audio, digital, and power cable products using aerospace technologies combined with a simplistic design approach....
Nitty Gritty
Nitty Gritty makes one of the most well known record cleaning devices for vinyl enthusiasts. The system uses a solution and spins the LP. With collectors buying older and first pressing records - Nitty Gritty cleaners are very relevant....
Nobis Technologies
Designer of the Cantabile Power Amplifier, with Big Fat bottle Yugoslavia EI brand 6CA7/EL34 output tubes...
Nola Speakers
Nola Speakers are large format audiophile transducers targeted to the audiophile market. They have some mainstream distribution such as Lyric HiFi in New York City. They also have received some very positive ink from international and extreme audiophile publications....
Nomad Audio
Nomad Audio is a speaker company best known for their RPD or Ronin Paper Dipole design. They are speakers targeted at the audiophile community mostly....
Nordost
One of the most underrated cable companies in the world beloved by audiophiles with extreme systems worldwide, Nordost utilizes flat cable technology and exceptional craftsmanship to create its high performance lineup of audio, video, digital, and power cable products. Nordost...
Norma Audio
Stereotypically gorgeous Italian-made audiophile electronics best describes Norma Audio....
North
North speakers are designed by Michael C. Barnes and honestly look a lot like a hibachi barbeque. I bet they sound better than a BBQ however if you can cook up a 24 ounce porterhouse steak from Lobell's on them...
North Creek Music
Makers of both their own line of dynamic and ribbon hybrid loudspeakers - North Creek Music is also known for their aftermarket crossover systems for B&W 801 and Apogee Stage loudspeaker systems....
Northstar
An ultra-small (possibly not in business) audiophile maker of audiophile source components. They have no website listed with major search engines....
Norwex
Makers of audiophile loudspeakers including the B-2 Nisse bookshelf mini monitors....
Noteperfect Loudspeakers
Audiophile speakers that are purportedly a "revolution" from down under in Australia....
Nottingham
Makers of ultimate level turntables and analog playback systems including the nearly $40,000 Deco Turntable with Ace-Anna Arm and Deco Power Supply. They also make the Dais Table and the more affordable (it's still close to $5,000) Hyperspace turntable....
Nova Audio
Founded in Texas in 1992, Nova designs and manufactures a handful of stereo loudspeaker products, ranging from small two-way designs to more complex full-range models....
NSM
Makers of audiophile speakers including the M5, M7C and PSM speaker systems....
NSR Sonic Research
Large scale, audiophile speakers that have that "handmade" look to them. The D1 Reference speakers are gigantic....
NuForce
NuForce is one of the biggest audiophile success stories in the past decade. They sell direct to the consumer and have made the idea of high powered, Class-D digital amps popular with audio enthusiasts....
NuVision
NuVision makes high performance LCD HDTVs designed for the home theater installer and the specialty AV market....
O'Heocha Design
Looking for speakers that look as if they were designed in outer space - check out O'Heocha. Don't get me wrong, these aren't tacky like a Star Trek convention. These speakers are striking in design and polished to fine tolerances....
Oak
Oak is an all-but-forgotten British budget turntable from the 1980s. Oak is distinctive for its red belt which was quite the visual statement for the audiophile....
Oasis
Oasis is not just some whiny, sissy Brit band that will make you want to warm up a bath and look for something sharp to end your musical pain. Oasis is an insanely expensive line of audiophile electronics imported to...
Ocellia
French made audiophile speakers that are large and rectangular with seemingly a nice finish on them. There is one large driver on the front of the largest speakers with a tweeter off to the side. These are audiophile speakers and...
Odyssey Audio
Manufactures high-end audio components at sensible prices, for discerning music lovers...
Ohm Acoustics
Since 1975, Ohm Speakers have utlized their proprietary and patented loudspeaker technologies to produce their famous line of Walsh and Micro Walsh loudspeakers, sold factory direct....
Olive Media Products
Olive servers are an audiophile grade yet somewhat affordable music server. Their industrial design is top notch and they sound very good, too....
Omega Speaker Systems
Designed in Norwalk, Connecticut Omega speakers are hardcore audiophile transducers with the look and feel of an old-school 1970's floorstanding speaker yet with newer technology in the cabinet....
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Omicron
Omicron is an Italian manufacturer of accessories, speakers, audio furniture, etc....
Omnimount
Omnimount makes an entire host of projector and speaker mounts as well as thousands of other AV products installation parts and devices....
On a Higher Note (Luxman)
On a Higher Note is the importer of the legendary brand Luxman as the line tries to make a comeback in the United States market....
Onix Audio
Onix Audio is a audiophile maker of tube and solid state electronics as well as speakers. They are best known for their SP3 Melody integrated amp and Reference 1 Mark II speakers. In 2009, the company has gotten new distribution...
Onkyo
Founded in 1946, Onkyo, along with brands like Kenwood, Yamaha, and Denon, has helped to bring high performance audio and home theater electronics to enthusiasts on a budget. Its Integra line, once marketing in conjunction with the main line's products,...
Opera Audio
Opera Audio specializes in the design and manufacture of single-ended tube amplifier products....
Oppo Digital
Oppo Digital is an audiophile and home theater enthusiasts favorite. They make hot-rodded source components such as HDMI DVD and or modified Blu-ray players. Their business model is to sell direct to the client and they have a very loyal...
Optimus
Optimus is the in-house speaker brand of Radio Shack....
Optoma
Optoma makes a very well respected line of front video projectors that range from very very affordable to higher end 3-chip models....
Oracle Audio Technologies
Oracle makes some of the most visually stunning audiophile grade electronics known to man, including the Delphi MKV turntable, the SME series 345 tone arm and spaceship looking CD players and transports like the CD 2000. Truly striking products with...
Orelle Audio
Makers of audiophile amps and electronics. They have no website and look to possibly not be in business any more....
Original Electronics
Ultimate level audiophile source components designed by a Chinese engineer. Very cool looking industrial engineering....
Ortofon
Legendary Danish manufacturer of audiophile grade cartridges for top performing record players....
Osborn Loudspeakers
Based in Australia, Osborn Loudspeakers offers a complete line of loudspeaker products for audio and home theater, including center channels and subwoofers, whose designs attempt to bridge the gap between the accuracy of smaller, two-way designs and the dynamics and...
Outlaw Audio
Spawned from the onset of e-commerce by a group of audio and home theater industry veterans in the late 1990s, Outlaw Audio delivers its affordable high performance audio and home theater electronics by building its designs to spec through subcontracted...
OWI
OWI makes outdoor, weatherized and weatherproof speaker systems....
Pacific Creek
Pacific Creek makes tube audiophile electronics based in Washington state....
Panamax
Panamax has been an international leader in award-winning, innovative power management products for more than 30 years. Their power management products give audio/video systems the pure, noise-free power they need for superlative performance, providing longevity to the components connected while...
Panamorph
Panamorph makes anamorphic lens and automated lens systems for nearly every projector brand on the market today....
Panasonic
A consumer electronics pillar, Panasonic Corporation (meaning bringing sound to the world) has survived and thrived in the volatile consumer electronics market since 1918. Founded by Konosuke Matsushita, the company was initially part of the behemoth corporation bearing the founder's...
Pantel
Based in Garden Grove, California, Pantel makes a complete line of waterproof, wireless HDTVs from 20" to 65", mirror TVs, as well as digital signage and weatherproof loudspeakers....
Paradigm
Amongst a handful of other comp;anies, Paradigm stands atop the affordable high-end loudspeaker world. Founded in Canada in the early 1980s, Paradigm designs and manufactures all of its products from the ground up, with ultimate levels of quality and innovation,...
Parasound
Parasound, along with companies like Adcom and B&K, emerged from the 1980s as marketleaders in affordable high-end audio and home theater products. Initially making its name in amplifiers and preamplifiers, Parasound has delved into other categories such as preamplifier processors,...
pARTicular
These German-made racks take the prize for being the most over-engineered and expensive furniture on which you could ever possibly place an audiophile component....
Pass Labs
Founded by legendary audio designer Nelson Pass in 1991, Pass Labs produces ultra high-end, robust two-channel solid-state electronics and loudspeakers (many operating in pure Class A), based on the numerous designs and patents held by Mr. Pass....
Pathos Acoustics
Holders of a patented amplifier circuit called INPOL, Pathos Audio, founded in Italy, designs and manufactures esoteric ultra high end tube electronics featuring very unique cosmetic designs....
Paul Hynes Design
Makers of power supplies such as the SR2 linear shunt regulated power supply....
PBN Audio
Makers of audiophile floorstanding and mini monitor speakers such as the Montana....
Penaudio
Makers of very sexy home theater and lifestyle oriented loudspeaker systems from Finland. These speakers are known for their slim footprint and home theater configurations....
Perfectionist Audio
Little is known about Perfectionist Audio. Today the company is seemingly out of business with no website, no American dealers and so on....
Perigee
Perigee is an Australian company that carries the torch for Apogee electrostatic speakers. Perigee produces repair kits and revived speakers based on original Apogee designs thus allowing die-hard fans to continue on the love affair with these prized yet discontinued...
Perpetual Technologies
Founded by Mark "Shifty" Shifter and Hi-fi Buys co-founder, Walter Liederman, Perpetual Technologies picked up where the legendary Audio Alchemy left off. Perpetual made audio components like digital to analog converters and other small format audio products. While sold for...
Perreaux
Founded in New Zealand in 1974, Perreaux produces a variety of product lines featuring affordable audio and home theater electronics mainly comprised of amilifiers, preamplifiers, integrated amplifiers, CD Players, and D/A converters, all featuring minimalist cosmetics and powerful circuits and...
Phase Linear
Before audio legend Bob Carver founded Carver Corporation, he founded Phase Linear, in 1970. The company debuted with two enormously powerful amplifier, the 700 and 400, along with the Model 4000 preamplifier. Shortly thereafter, however, Carver left the company to...
Phase Tech
Based in Kansas and founded in 1955 by Bill Hecht, Phase Tech emanated from the movie theater sound industry. An established engineer in that space, Mr. Hecht decided to use his knowledge to help pioneer the budding home audio market....
Philips
Founded in the Netherlands in 1891, Philips Corporation has not only produced an incredibly diverse assortment of products and solutions, it has produced a number of the consumer electronics industry's most notable inventions. Before even debuting in consumer electronics in...
Pianodisc
Pianodisc is a well known maker of player pianos that are marketed to the home theater and lifestyle audience....
Piega
Founded in Switzerland in 1986, Piega produces a complete range high-end ribbon-based loudspeakers including bookshelf, full-range, subwoofers, center channels, along with cables, stands, and accessories....
Pierre Gabriel Acoustics
Pierre Gabriel Acoustics is a French Canadian maker of audiophile speakers that is often associated with Jadis electronics....
Pink Triangle
Pink Triangle has one of the most oddball names to ever grace and audiophile brand. Pink Triangle made audiophile electronics such as preamps and phono preamps. We believe Pink Triangle is no longer in business today....
Pinnacle
Founded in 1986, Pinnacle produces a variety of solutions for viewing, sharing, managing, distributing, and editing home video content....
Pinsh Loudspeakers
British made, more lifestyle oriented loudspeakers that use ribbon and dynamic drivers....
Pioneer
One of the single biggest and most recognized brand names in consumer electronics, Pioneer was founded in 1938 and made its name and reputation mainly in the home and mobile audio world, but also branched out into video with its...
Pipedreams (Nearfield Acoustics)
Pipedreams makes one of the tallest most driver-laden audiophile speakers on the market today....
Placette Audio
Producer of a high-end line preamplifier, passive preamplifier, and remote volume control...
Playback Designs
Makers of ultra-high end digital audio components with the stated goal of making digital audio sound better than analog. There might be no one audiophile company more against jitter and "digital hash" than Playback Designs. Little was said about analog...
Plinius
Founded in 1980, Plinius is a New Zealand-based high-end audio electronics company specializing in amplifiers, preamplifiers, and integrated amplifiers....
PLUS Vision
PLUS Vision makes consumer grade and conference room projector systems....
Pluto Audio
Pluto Audio is a maker of fine turntables, tone arms and cartridges from the Netherlands....
PMC
Founded in 1990, UK-based PMC produces home and professional loudspeaker systems utilizing proprietary drivers and transmission line designs. Some of its pro offerings were used in the sound reproduction of many feature films, and many are used in recording studios...
Polk Audio
Founded in 1972, Polk Audio holds numerous patents in the world of loudspeaker design. Polk's design philosophy centers around the midrange, and its prominence in the way people hear and perceive sound. While debuting with and being famous for its...
Polyfusion Audio
High performance loudspeakers for home stereo, home theater and car stereo applications...
Portal Audio
Portal Audio makes high performance audiophile electronics at a more affordable price point including the Paladin and Panache integrated amp....
Posh Speaker Systems
Posh makes in-wall and other lifestyle speaker systems designed for the retrofit and new construction market....
Prana Audio
Prana Audio makes audiophile oriented speakers that have a yoga theme to their names and inspiration....
Precision Acoustic Labs
Precision Acoustic Labs purportedly makes multi-driver audiophile speakers. They seem to be out of business with no active website. Buyer beware....
Presence Audio
Presence Audio is a small maker of audiophile grade cartridges for turntables....
PrimaLuna
PrimaLuna makes distinctive looking audiophile power amps and preamps. Specifically some of their products have protective (arguably decorative) grills over the tubes....
Primare Systems
Scandivanian company specializing in high-end two-channel audio electronics featuring refined cosmetics and high performance combining with lifestyle sensibilities....
ProAc
UK-based loudspeaker company featuring an entire range of products from two-way bookshelf models to center channels and satellites to full-range floorstanding models. ProAc products are famous for their superb craftsmanship and variety of finishes, as well as refined sound quality....
Proceed
Originally a more affordable offshoot of Mark Levinson, now-defunct Proceed designed and manufactured a range of digital separates like transports and D/A Converters, then moved into amplifiers and preamplifier/processors....
Proclaim Audioworks
Proclaim Audio Works make round speakers. Unlike Anthony Gallo Acoustics and Orb Audio - these speakers are decidedly audiophile in their implementation and are much larger scale (other than the Reference Gallos) and include articulating arms and movable parts. These...
Project Audio
Pro-ject turntables are made in Austria....
projectiondesign
projectiondesign is a Norwegian company that designs, manufactures and markets a range of high performance projectors for professional, business and consumer applications. Amongst its core markets are high resolution scientific visualisation and simulation, medical imaging, e-cinema and public displays. Demonstrating...
Proscan
Proscan was a sub-line of televisions made by RCA. Proscan is no longer marketed in the consumer electronics market....
Proson
Makers of audiophile loudspeakers and a limited line of electronics since 1977....
Proton
Founded in 1981, Proton initally produced a line of refined portable and tabletop radios. Proton then delved into the audio/video sector with an acclaimed line of consumer and professional televisions and monitors, complemented with mobile audio, surround decoder, and even...
PS Audio
Founded by audio design legends Paul McGowan and Stan Warren in 1974, until its demise in 1998 PS Audio produced some the industry's finest affordable high performance audio products, including the world's first Digital-to-Analog Converter (the Digital Link). Shortly after...
PSB Loudspeakers
Founded by loudspeaker designer Paul Barton and his wife, Sue, in 1972, PSB Speakers has built a formidable reputation for affordable high-end loudspeakers for virtually any application. A loudspeaker designer since childhood, Mr. Barton combines a passion for music and...
Pure Acoustics
Pure Acoustics is a maker of lifestyle oriented home theater loudspeakers that come in a rainbow of colors and have complete 7.1 configurations that match many of today's HDTV oriented installs....
Purist Audio
Purist Audio Design offers a complete line of ultra high-end audio, digital, and power cables designed with a focus on virtually every aspect of a cable's construction....
QED
Founded in 1973 and now owned by the Armour Group, UK-based QED produces a formidable array of audio, video, digital, and power cable lines at numerous price points, as well as a complete line of video converters and distribution amplifiers....
Qinpu
Very small manufacturer of audiophile electronics specifically the A-1 OX integrated amp....
QLN
Extremely small maker of audiophile loudspeaker. Company has no website and possibly is not currently in business....
Qsonix
Located in Westlake Village, California, Qsonix is a market innovator and leader in providing user-friendly digital media technologies to a diversified group of licensees and under its own Qsonix brand. With its highly reviewed award-winning user interface, Qsonix offers the...
Quad USA
Founded in 1936 by audio design legend Peter Walker, Quality Unit Audio Domestic holds a status in the world of hi-fi that can only be described as 'royalty'. Indeed, the company has received technological achievement awards from the Queen of...
Quadral
A little known European maker of audiophile loudspeakers....
Quadraspire
British maker of very nice looking audiophile and lifestyle oriented equipment racks and speaker stands....
Quicksilver
Founded in 1981, Quicksilver designs and handcrafts (100% in the USA) a select line of tube-based amplifiers and preamplifiers....
Quintessence Acoustics
Producer of a select line of ultra high-end loudspeaker products...
Radford
Radford was a legendary British amplifier and speaker manufacturer from 1960s-1980s. The brand Radford is currently the subject of a potential revival as part of the retro-audio movement worldwide....
Radio Shack-Tandy
Tandy is the house-brand of retailer Radio Shack....
RAM
RAM, not to be confused with a Dodge truck or a way-to-hard-to-hit golf ball, was a British loudspeaker manufacturer that had its heyday in the 1980s. The RAM 100 speakers are of note and audiophiles on the forums quietly seek...
Rane
Founded in 1981 by former executives of Phase Linear, Rane has earned a stellar reputation in the professional audio industry for its far-reaching line of pro audio solutions such as compressors, mixers, equalizers, preamplifiers, and related accessories....
Rau Research
Audiophile amplifiers actually made (or at least decorated) with wood sides and panels....
Rauna
Swedish made audiophile turntables and electronics....
Raysonic
Raysonic makes an entire line of audiophile electronics including a very cool looking, blue-backlit CD player, tube amps, tube preamps and an integrated amp....
RBH Sound
Known as the other speaker company from Utah (they refer to Wilson Audio but there are actually a few strong speaker companies from Utah) RBH makes a full line of performance orientated speaker systems. They offer limited edition audiophile speakers...
RCA Thomson
RCA, sponsor of the RCA Dome and one of the most well known consumer electronics brands of all time, makes a full line of LCD HDTVs sold to mainstream consumers though mass market retailers....
RealTraps
RealTraps are audiophile oriented room acoustical treatments....
Rectilinear
Rectilinear was a United States based loudspeaker manufacturer from 1960s and 1970s that employed variously legendary audio designers Jon Dahlquist, Dick Shahinian and Jim Bongiorno. Of note from Rectilinear history are the Rectilinear III loudspeakers. Audiophiles today talk about Goodwill...
Red Dragon Audio
Red Dragon Audio is the maker of the Leviathan mono amps which are large format audiophile power amps that are once again come with a wood finish....
Red Rose Music
Founded by audio design legend Mark Levinson, Red Rose Music offers a system-oriented approach to high-end audio with its variety of loudspeakers, hybrid amplifiers, phono cartridges and preamplifiers, and even CDs....
Red Wine Audio
Red Wine Audio makes a full compliment of audiophile speakers and a limited line of basic audiophile electronics based in Connecticut....
Redpoint Audio Design
Based in Scottsdale Arizona, Redpoint Audio Design makes a very striking looking, reference level turntable that looks like it would be just at home at the Museum of Modern Art as it would in your living room. Very cool looking...
Reel Acoustics
Reel Acoustics makes and markets sound bar and subwoofers. It's easy to confuse Reel Acoustics with Rel Acoustics but they are distinctively different companies....
Reference Imaging
Reference Imaging is a company that designs and sells dual converged 9 inch CRT projector systems for the ultra-retro enthusiasts market....
Reference Recordings
Reference Recordings is one of the most well known audiophile record labels featuring mostly classic recordings....
Reflection Audio
Reflection Audio makes audiophile electronics including OM1 preamplifier based in San Rafael, California....
Rega
Founded in 1973, Rega introduced the Planar 3 turntable in 1977, one of the most popular budget turntables ever. Rega also produced a series of other popular turntables, tonearms, and cartridges. In the British tradition of a system-oriented approach, Rega...
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Reimer Speaker Systems
High fidelity stereo loudspeakers, compatible with 2 channel audio and home theater surround systems...
Reimyo
Reimyo is a small maker of audiophile source components including the CDP-777 CD player. The company is possibly still not in business....
REL
British designer and manufacturer of ultra high-end "sub-bass" subwoofer systems...
Relco Audio
Relco Audio is an Italian manufacturer of large format audiophile speakers that reach as high as the ceiling....
Renaissance Audio Group
Renaissance Audio is an audiophile speaker company with roots in the car audio and raw driver market....
ReplayTV
ReplayTV was the first real DVR or digital video recorder. Many believe PR executive Kimberly Lancaster (Caster Communications - the PR firm for Runco, Paradigm, Microsoft and many others) named the company. They had a sexy interface that was quickly...
ReQuest
ReQuest Multimedia is one of the leaders in the world of PC convergence. ReQuest is known for making one of the first commercially successful music servers that can both play lossless music files as well as distribute them in a...
Resolution Audio
Founded in 1993, Resolution Audio offers a series of compact, minimalist, high performance electronics, including a CD player, controller, and integrated amplifiers....
Respons Loudspeakers
Respons Loudspeakers are triangular Swedish speakers marketed to the International audiophile community....
Rethm
Rethm speakers use a single driver design and come from India....
Revel
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Revelation Audio Labs
Revelation makes and sells 99.9 percent pure silver audiophile cables....
Revolver Audio
British made audiophile loudspeakers best define Revolver Audio. They are best known for their CYGNIS speakers....
Revox
Founded by legendary professional audio company Studer in the early 1950s, Revox produced some of the most acclaimed and respected open-reel tape recorders in history. Studer Revox then went on to produce a variety of professional audio products such as...
Richard Gray's Power Company
One of the most interesting success stories in high-end audio and home theater, Richard Gray's Power Company made a splash in 1998 with its first power conditioning product, the 400S, based on a US patent. Gaining a cult following throughout...
Ridge Street Audio Designs
Ridge Street Audio Designs makes distinctive all-granite loudspeakers that are stand mounted....
Rives Audio
Rives Audio, founded by Richard Rives Bird, has made room correction EQ devices but has become more famous for doing acoustical design including full CAD drawings for the audiophile and home theater market. Dealers and enthusiast end users use Rives...
Rix Rax
Rix Rax is an extreme audiophile equipment stand designed to isolate top performing audiophile components....
Roan Audio
Oregon-based manufacturer of two-way loudspeakers and subwoofers....
Robertson Audio
A company that evolved out of the short-lived but renowned Electro Research founded by Mel Schilling and John Iverson. No longer in business....
Rockford Fosgate
Founded in 1973, Rockford Fosgate patented the concept of Bass Boost for car audio, and has remained one of the biggest brands and producers of high performance car audio products and accessories. In the late 1980's, the brand name Fosgate...
Rockport Technologies
Founded in 1984, Rockport Technologies offers a series ultra high-end, handcrafted loudspeakers known for their sonics, gloss black finish, and inert structure. Rockport also made what is considered by many to be the finest turntable ever made, the Sirius III....
Rockustics
Rockustics started the whole trend of outdoor speakers that actually look like rocks. Over the years, outdoor speakers have gotten better and better. They also look more and more like actual rocks....
Rogers
Founded in 1947 by Jim Rogers, Rogers of England produced what many consider to be the best two-way loudspeaker ever made, the LS3/5A, which is still in production today and, along with many other Rogers models, in use in numerous...
Rogue Audio
Pennsylvania-based provider of affordable tube-based amplifiers and preamplifiers....
Roksan
Based in the UK, Roksan made its debut with its acclaimed Xerxes turntable, and has since vastly expanded its offerings to include phono tonearms and cartridges, amplifiers, preamplifiers, CD/DVD players, tuners, loudspeakers, and cables....
Role Audio
Role Audio's claim to fame is making small speakers and small speakers they do make. Their Skiff speakers are barely larger than a Compact Disc....
Rolf Kelch Audio
Its not clear of Rolf Kelch Audio is still in business at this stage but the company made high end analog devices such as carbon fiber tone arms....
Roman Audio
Another company that it is not clear if they are still in business, Roman Audio were the makers of the Centurion loudspeakers. Clearly an audiophile product....
Rossner & Sohn
Rossner & Sohn is a German manufacturer of high mass, audiophile grade turntables....
Rotel
In business for almost 50 years, Rotel quietly but effectively has risen to the top of the affordable audio and home theater electronics category. Initially making its name in the early 1990s in the world of CD players with its...
Royal Device Loudspeakers
Royal Device Loudspeakers are clearly inspired by the live musical experience and come with ultra-high efficiency drivers. Their fit and finish look like they are handmade and very possibly home made....
RPG
RPG offers a wide range of acoustical absorptive and diffusive systems for home and professional applications....
RTI - Remote Technologies, Inc.
RTI is a maker of very sexy home theater remote controls designed for use by the end user thus not needing a specialty programmer to make the remote work. RTI's remotes have received many awards from AV industry publications....
Ruark Acoustics
UK-based provider of loudspeakers and subwoofers offering high-end performance oriented models as well as lifestyle sensitive offerings....
Runco
Runco has stood at the forefront of the high-end television industry since 1968. Founded by Sam and Lori Runco, Runco debuted with its Cinemabeam front projection television in the mid 1970s, and produced a slew of follow-up models over the...
Running Springs Audio
Running Springs Audio is a Mission Viejo, California based audiophile electronics company that has no website listed with Google....
Russound
Russound is a leader in distributed audio products. They have a full line of media servers, audio components and other parts and elements needed to do complete distributed audio throughout your home....
SAE
SAE or Scientific Audio Electronics was a force in the audiophile world in the heyday of the late 1970's and into the 1980s. They were based in Los Angeles. The company is no longer in business today....
Salagar Sonics
Very slick lifestyle oriented speakers from Michigan that come in a rainbow selection of paint finishes as well as in very luxurious wood finished....
Salamander Designs
Salamander Designs, Ltd. is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of modern furniture, storage, seating and mounting systems for contemporary Home Theater and A/V entertainment systems. Its versatile, advanced products bridge the gap between home furnishings and home electronics with...
Salk Sound
Designer Jim Salk's Salk Sound is an audiophile speaker company based in Michigan known for speakers like the Veracity line which can also be configured for home theater and 7.1 setups....
Samsung
Samsung is one of the biggest and most important electronics companies on the planet Earth. They currently sell more flat HDTVs than any other company (aprox. 20% of the total flat HDTVs sold are Samsungs). They were an early and...
Sansui
Founded in 1947, Sansui (Japanese for "mountain" and "water") originally produced transformers, then eventually an entire line of audio products sold throughout the world. On a slightly lesser scale, Sansui products enjoyed a strong reputation in the 1970s and 1980s...
Sanus Systems
Sanus produces a wide variety of audio and home theater furniture, wall mounts, and speaker stands in a tremendous variety of finishes, shapes, and sizes....
Sanyo
Founded in Japan in 1947, Sanyo initially made radios and washing machines, then evolved into television production in 1955. Sanyo then began innovating in what would become one of its biggest areas of focus: power generation and management. Sanyo produced...
SANYO Fisher Company
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. is a multi-billion-dollar global leader in providing solutions for the environment, energy and for lifestyle applications based on its brand vision 'Think GAIA'. SANYO Fisher Company (a division of SANYO North America Corporation, a subsidiary of...
SAP
SAP, not to be confused with the accounting and consulting firm, is an Iconoclastic Italian audiophile brand that makes speakers, tube amps, turntables for the enthusiast audio market....
SAS Audio Labs
SAS Audio Labs makes audiophile electronics including the 7a Tube amp and the 11a preamp based in Morton, Illinois....
Scaena Loudspeakers
Scaena Loudspeakers makes a very dramatic looking "Iso-array" speaker which is amazingly well built and consists of a tower of aligned pods that have an entire tall array of brightly colored speakers. They must be seen to be believed. Harry...
Schick Tone arms
Made by Thomas Schick, these tone arms are made is small batches and on the extreme edge of the audiophile world....
Schroder Tonearms
Schroder Tonearms are massive, highly engineered audiophile tone arms for turntables that often use woof inserts as part of their design....
Schroers & Schroers
Schroers & Schroers is a German made equipment rack company for audiophiles that feature gleaming glass designs. Its possible that they are not in business any longer as there is no active website running for them....
Scientific Fidelity
This audiophile brand of speakers had gotten some press over the years especially for their Tesla floorstanding speakers. Seemingly, the brand is out of business today....
Screen Research
Screen Research is a French projector screen company that is best known for its acoustically "transparent" screens....
SEEC
SEEC is an audiophile maker of active interconnect systems from The Netherlands. SEEC stands for Scientific Essential Equipment Company and they are best known for their SEEC ASC-2 system....
Sehring Audio
Sehring Audio is a German manufacturer of modern looking, lifestyle oriented loudspeakers....
Sencore
Sencore is a company that makes video measurement devices most often used by ISF calibrators and professionals in the video world....
Sennheiser Electronics
Founded in Germany in 1945, Sennheiser has earned a stellar reputation in the microphone and headphone industries. Multitudes of recording facilities and artists throughout the world use Sennheiser microphones, and the company has dramatically increased its reach within the high...
Sensory Power
Sensory Power is a Northern California based ultra-audiophile based cable and AC power company. These hose-like AC power cables and interconnects are not for the casual user as they look like something that NASA might consider for a space shuttle...
Series USA Theater Seating
Series USA is a seating company that makes traditional cineplex style theater seating as well as seating for auditoriums, stadiums and churches....
Serious Stereo
Serious Stereo is a Montana-based audiophile tube electronics company best known for their vividly blue colored chassis....
Shahinian Acoustics
One of the most highly regarded speaker companies in the high end audio community, family-owned Shahinian Acoustics build loudspeakers that present a tremendous portrait of the musical event. Designed by the legendary Richard Shahinian, Shahinian loudspeakers feature dynamic, custom-made drivers...
Shakti Innovations
From the dark world of audiophile tweaks comes an "amp brick" for lack of a better term that is marketed both for electronics performance as much as it will make your Lamborghini Diablo go faster. And no, I am not...
Shanling Audio
Founded in 1998 in China, Shanling designs and manufactures an wide array of high-end audio products within a tremendous R&D and manufacturing infrastructure. Some of Shanling's products incorporate tube-based designs, and robust cosmetics and metalwork....
Sharp Electronics
Founded in 1912 by child prodigy Tokuji Hayakawa, Sharp Corporation started as the maker of a unique snap belt buckle patented by Mr. Hayakawa at the age of 19. After patenting an adjustable flow faucet a year later, he perfected...
Shearne Audio
Shearne Audio is a small audiophile manufacturer of electronics that may not be in production any more. Their website is promoting T.H.E Show (an off-shoot of the Consumer Electronics Show) for a 2000 appearance and they have no contact information....
Shelter
Shelter makes audiophile grade cartridges and analog accessories that enjoy major audio catalog distribution....
Sherbourn Audio
Custom audio and home theater company specializing in multi-channel amplification and value-added home theater receivers....
Sherwood
For over a half a century, Sherwood has designed and manufacturing some of the best affordable audio and home theater electronics in the world. While best known for its own line of stereo and home theater receivers (especially its high-end...
Sherwood Newcastle
Sherwood Newcastle is a Korean company with long standing ties to the audiophile and home theater world. Run in the United States by Jeff Hipps, Sherwood makes one of the best 7.1 room correction AV receivers on the market but...
Shunyata Research
Shunyata Research makes one of the most respected audiophile AC power isolation products on the market today....
Shure
Founded in 1925 in Chicago by Sidney Shure, Shure initially distributed parts for radios, before beginning on its now-legendary journey into the world of microphones and professional audio gear. The company's accomplishments include several patents, and a huge presence in...
Signal Cable, Inc.
Signal Cable is hand made audiophile cables from New York....
Signal Collection
Seemingly an importer of speakers like German Physics and Continuum Audio Labs....
Signal Path
Signal Path is the distribution company behind Era Loudspeakers, Peachtree Audio and other audiophile brands....
Signet
Signet made affordable audiophile and consumer accessible speakers in the late 1980's and early 1990's. The company is no longer in business....
Silent Running Audio
Silent Running Audio makes massive and nicely engineers audiophile isolation stands for source components and electronics....
Silicon Arts Design
Silicon Arts Design is a Japanese audiophile electronics company that offer amps and preamps from designer Steve Hoffman....
Silicon Image
Silicon Image is the company behind HDMI and other HD content technologies....
Siltech Cables
Siltech Cables are an ultra-premium audiophile cable company that primarily uses silver as the conduit in their cables thus are very pricey compared to more traditional copper designs. Audiophiles rave about the performance differences....
Silver Audio
Silver Audio designs and manufactures its own line of high performance silver interconnects, loudspeaker cables, and power cables, completely from scratch, all in the USA. Silver Audio even sources its own silver and Teflon for its dielectric materials, making it...
Silver Circle Audio
Silver Circle Audio makes premium audiophile cables as well as AC power Products such as the Juice Box and the Juice Box Jr....
Silverline Audio
Silverline Audio, not to be confused with Silverline Records (the DVD-Audio record label) is a California based audiophile speaker company that is best known for their Minute and La Fola II loudspeaker systems....
Silversmith Audio
Silversmith Audio is a San Diego based premium manufacturer of critically acclaimed silver audiophile cables....
Sim Audio
Founded in Canada in 1980, Simaudio designs and manufactures a complete line of audio and home theater electronics, from entry-level to reference quality. Its "Celeste" line of products gained it critical acclaim during the 1990s, and the company built upon...
SIM2
SIM2 (formerly known as SIM2 Seleco or just plain Seleco) is a leading high end video company. They are best known for their Italian industrial design and sexy cases but their three chip DLP projectors compete favorably with the likes...
Simon Yorke
Simon Yorke Designs is a Spanish ultra-performance analog turntable company. Notable products include the Simon Yorke Designs s-10, the s-7, the s-8 and the s-4 turntables....
Singlepower Audio
Singlepower Audio is a Colorado-based SET tube amp manufacturer for the audiophile market....
Sirius-XM Satellite Radio
Sirius-XM is the conglomerate of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Radio after a 2008 merger was approved by the SEC. Sirius-XM is the home of exclusive radio content from the likes of Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey and Howard Stern....
Sistrum Platforms
Sistrum Platforms makes audiophile grade yet somewhat affordable equipment isolation devices....
Skylan Manufacturing Ltd
Skylan Manufacturing makes heavy duty audiophile equipment racks and speaker stands....
Skywire Audio
Skywire Audio makes audiophile speaker cables, interconnects and more....
Slim Devices
A sub-brand of computer peripheral company Logitech, Slim Devices is the maker of the Squeezebox line of electronics including wireless receivers, boom boxes and more....
SLS Loudspeakers
SLS Loudspeakers is best known in the pro audio and sound reinforcement business but they also have a powerful line of consumer speakers that are often used in larger scale home theater installations - specifically with perforated screens....
Smart Devices
Smart Devices makes and directly sells audiophile products like record cleaners, record cleaning devices, EQs, a laser turntable and much more....
SMc Audio
SMc Audio is an audiophile electronics company known for the VRE-1 preamp....
SME
SME is known as a premium maker of tone arms and analog accessories for turntables....
Snell Acoustics
Founded in 1976 by Peter Snell, Snell Acoustics designs and manufactures critically acclaimed loudspeakers for virtually every application. Indeed, Snell employs a unique method of design called "In Concept", whereupon its acclaimed home loudspeakers are re-designed for applications such as...
Soaring Audio
Soaring Audio is a Nevada based maker of extreme audiophile products including the Terradactyl mono block amps....
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Solaja Audio
Solaja Audio is a Serbian manufacturer of audiophile grade electronics that brings that former KGB lure to your music system. Very cool....
Solid Tech
Solid Tech is a Swedish made high end audiophile maker of equipment racks and stands....
SolidSteel
SolidSteel is an Italian maker of gorgeous (surprise, surprise) audiophile equipment racks and stands....
Soliloquy
Soliloquy is a brand that likely is no longer in business but saw some traction in the early 1990's with the 5.3 speaker system....
Solus Audio
Solus Audio is a small maker of extreme in-wall loudspeakers....
Sonance
Founded in 1982, Sonance helped to pioneer the entire custom installation industry with its line of high performance yet architecturally friendly loudspeaker products. At that time, both could rarely be achieved together. Sonance has built on that by expanding its...
Song Audio
Song Audio makes and imports audiophile grade tube electronics. They are based in Canada....
Sonic Euphoria
Sonic Euphoria is the maker of the PLC Passive Line Controller which has received critical acclaim from many fringe audiophile publications....
Sonic Frontiers
Sonic Frontiers was founded by Chris Jensen and Chris Johnson and ultimately sold to Paradigm as a matching electronics line to go with their well-respected speakers. Paradigm doesn't make Sonic Frontiers tube electronics any longer however they took Sonic Frontier's...
Sonicweld
Sonicweld is the maker of a wild looking, all-metal, active speaker made in Utah....
Sonist Loudspeakers
Sonist Loudspeakers make audiophile speakers that use ribbon tweeters to get their signature sound....
Sonneteer
Sonneteer is a more lifestyle oriented audiophile company with its roots in analog playback (what British audio company doesn't) but is already dabbling in the world of wireless audio....
Sonographe
Legendary high end audio electronics producer Conrad Johnson introduced Sonographe in the mid-1980s as a more affordable alternative to its reference level products. Sonographe produced a well-received line FET-based amplifiers and preamplifiers. The company no longer produces the Sonographe line...
Sonos
Santa Barbara based Sonos is one of the first companies to make a wireless music server system that included iPod connectivity, Internet radio and more....
Sonus Faber
Sonus faber is one of the top names in audiophile loudspeakers worldwide. The Italian speaker company is known for its dark wood cabinets and dynamic sound....
Sony
Sony might very well be the most recognized brand name in the world, regardless of industry. Besides its renowned motion picture and recorded music concerns, Sony, from purely a consumer electronics standpoint, holds the rare distinction of achieving not only...
Sooloos LLC
Established in New York City in 2001, Sooloos manufactures the world's most innovative, functional, and easy-to-use networked home entertainment system. The company creates advanced but easy-to-use technologies to locate, store, distribute, and manage a wide variety of media content, creating...
SOTA
Sota played a huge role in the renaissance of turntables in the late 1980s, with its acclaimed Star Sapphire turntable. The Star's vacuum holddown system and robust build quality impressed hordes of critics and customers throughout the world. Sota followed...
Sound Advance
Sound Advance is both a residential and commercial in-wall speaker company. They are best known for their SA2B "invisible speaker" that goes behind drywall....
Sound Anchor
Sound Anchor is a well known loudspeaker stand maker. They also make equipment and amp stands....
Sound Dynamics
A division of Audio Products International of Canada (founders of acclaimed brands Mirage and Energy), Sound Dynamics specializes in affordable high performance loudspeakers....
Sound Lab
Founded by legendary designer Roger West in 1978, Sound Lab produces some of the best reviewed, most popular electrostatic loudspeakers in the world. Utilizing patented technology, Sound Lab products incorporate custom parts, unique geometric principles, and robust electronic circuits to...
Sound Matters
Soundmatters makes some very unique sound bar and all-in-one speaker systems designed for today's HDTV driven systems....
Sound Mechanics
Sound Mechanics makes a full line of speakers, speaker stands, tweaks, cables, racks and acoustical treatments from Hong Kong....
Sound-E-Motion
Sound-E-Motion is another "round speaker" company that makes large scale wooden speakers that look more like a decorative globe than a traditional speaker....
Soundations
Soundations is an audiophile equipment rack maker....
Soundcraftsmen
Founded in 1961, Soundcraftsmen flew under the radar of the greater audio world, but produced a series of well-engineered and received tube and solid-state amplifers, preamplifers, and equalizers, incorporating patented circuitry and living up to their name with each assembled...
Soundolier
Without question one of the most unique products on this list, Soundolier, brings speakers to devices like lighting fixtures and lamps....
Soundsmith
Soundsmith is as much of a repair shop as it is a manufacturer. Their home-made products have a very unique wooden case look to them....
Soundstream
One of the most respected companies in high end mobile audio, Soundstream produces a comprehensive line of mobile audio products including amplifiers, processors, subwoofers, loudspeakers, and numerous related accessories including its recent introduction of navigation products and DVD players and...
Soundstring Cable
Soundstring Cable makes audiophile speaker cables, in-wall speaker cables, interconnects and AC power cables in Connecticut....
SP Technology
SP makes (or made) audiophile loudspeakers. There is little sign of them on the web anymore....
Space-Tech Laboratory
Affordable, home-made looking tube amps and electronics best describes Space-Tech Labs audiophile products....
Speaker Art
Speaker Art is an audiophile speaker company known for their Super Clefs and Proklaim II loudspeaker system....
Speakercraft
Founded in the mid-1970s, Speakercraft helped to establish the custom installation industry all over the world with its comprehensive line of in-wall loudspeaker products. Initially a product provider for other brands, the company began producing its own line of products...
Speakerlab
Since 1971, Speakerlab has remained one of the country's most popular producers of loudspeaker kits, as well as a fine dealer for a variety of product lines....
Spectral
Founded in 1977, Spectral Audio has produced a series of high-end, performance-oriented two-channel solid=state audio products that retain a devoted cult following. In addition to its acclaimed amplifier and preamplifier products, the company achieved worldwide recognition in the 1990s with...
Spectron
Spectron makes very slick looking digital amps based in Chatsworth California....
Spendor
Spendor is a British manufacturer of high end loudspeakers including many floorstanding models such as the ST as well as mini monitor speakers like the SA model....
Spica
Spica was a famous brand of triangular speakers from the heyday of audiophile products in the 1980's....
Spiral Groove
Spiral Groove is a very cool looking turntable made in Berkeley, California....
SRS Labs
SRS Labs is a leader in surround sound technology specifically used in headphone and for speaker systems in HDTV sets....
STAHL~TEK
STAHL-TEK is a Texas-based audiophile company that makes high end electronic specifically audiophile source components....
Stanalog
Stanalog is the exclusive importer of Sugden electronics and Well Tempered Labs audiophile products....
Standesign
Standdesign is a British maker of AV equipment racks and stands....
Stanton
Stanton has produced a series of professional audio products such as cartridges, mixers, and headphones for the DJ market since 1946....
Stargate Cinema
Stargate Cinema is top-level online, home theater retailer selling quality residential and commercial products with one-stop shopping. Online reviews report notable customer service, competitive prices and most impressively free shipping in the 48 states. Stargate also sells AV and home...
Status Acoustics
Utah-based Status Acoustics are best known for their stone-line finish on their large format audiophile speakers....
Stax
Stax headphones (or ear speaker as they like to call it) are some of the most sought-after audiophile products in the world. They are electrostatic in design and can create one of the most wonderful audio experiences you can ever...
Stealth Audio Cables
Stealth Audio makes audiophile interconnects, speaker cables and more....
Stellavox
Stellavox was a Swiss manufacturer of open-reel tape decks, once a rival to Nagra. Stellavox today has a line of professional audio products such as the Stellavox ST2 digital to analog converter, the Stellavox PW1 power amp and the Stellavox...
Stello
Stello is an obscure maker of audiophile electronics including the CDT200, DP200 and M200 amp....
StereoStone
Much like Rockustics, StereoStone makes outdoor speakers that actually look like rocks and other garden elements....
Stereovox
Extreme audiophile speaker cables and interconnects best describes Stereovox....
Steve Blinn Designs
Extreme audiophile amps and electronics best describe Steve Blinn Design's products....
Stewart Filmscreen
In business for over 60 years and one of the most respected and far-reaching screen manufacturers in the world, family-owned Stewart Filmscreen continues to set new standards for performance, aesthetics, and innovation. Stewart not only makes screen solutions for virtually...
Stillpoints LLC
Stillpoints makes audiophile accessories including component isolation devices....
Straight Wire
Founded by Steven Hill, Straight Wire is one of the more well known audiophile and home theater speaker cable and interconnect cable companies in the marketplace today....
Studio Electric
Utah-based Studio Electric is an extreme audiophile company making both speakers and electronics with industrial design in mind....
StudioLAB Loudspeakers
Canadian made speaker company....
Sugden Audio Products
Sugden Audio is a company built around the class-A designs of James E. Sugden going back to the mid-1960's....
Sumiko
Sumiko is best described as an importer of various brands of audiophile products including Sonus faber speakers....
Sumo
Founded by legendary audio designer James Bongiorno of GAS and SAE fame, Sumo made a series of critically-acclaimed amplifiers, preamplifiers, loudspeakers, and source components in the 1970s and early 1980s....
Sun Audio
Sun Audio are makers of well regarded audiophile tube amps such as the SV-2A3....
Sunfire
Founded by legendary audio designer Bob Carver, Sunfire took the high end audio and home theater industry by storm with its truly groundbreaking True Subwoofer. Featuring an enormous woofer driver with a rubber surround, driven by a 2700-watt amplifier with...
Sunny Cable Technology
Sunny Cable Technology is known for their time accurate audiophile cables....
Superex
Superex was an American headphone manufacturer that saw its heyday in the 1960s. Superex is no longer around however collectors of vintage headphones seek out Superex for their growing collections....
Superphon
Founded by PS Audio co-founder Stan Warren after leaving PS Audio, Superphon produced a handful of affordable, high performance active and passive preamplifiers before going out of business....
Supra Cables
Swedish made Supra cables are audiophile interconnects, speaker cables and AC power chords....
Sutherland Engineering
Founded by legendary audio engineer Ron Sutherland (co-founder of Martin Logan - "Logan" being his middle name), Sutherland products represent a cost-no-object, handcrafted approach to two-channel audio. Featuring minimalist cosmetics, painstaking engineering and execution, and very unique control systems that...
SVS
SVS is a premium maker of speakers - most specifically critically acclaimed subwoofers....
Swan
High-end loudspeaker manufacturer Swans Speaker merged with acclaimed international loudspeaker producer and audio retailer HiVi in 1997. Originally based in Canada, HiVi established a strong reputation for its ribbon tweeter designs, then changed its production base to China while building...
Symphonic Line
Completely handcrafted in Germany, Symphonic Line produces a line of critically acclaimed high-end audio electronics and loudspeaker products, including CD players, tuners, amplifiers, and integrated amplifiers....
Symposium Acoustics
Symposium Acoustics makes a full range of audiophile tweak and performance products including isolation parts and much more....
Synergistic Research
Synergistic Research is a very high end brand of audiophile cables....
Synthesis Art in Music
Synthesis Art in Music is an Italian maker of audiophile speakers and electronics....
System Audio
Founded in 1984 in Denmark, System Audio produces a stunning array of high-performance loudspeakers for both audio and home theater, combining absolute performance with a regard for aesthetic and lifestyle sensibilities....
T+A Elektroakustik
German made very high end solid state electronics that are imported by the Quartet Group into the United States....
Tact Audio
Based in New Mexico and founded in 1998, Tact Audio pioneered the categories of high-end digital amplification and room correction. Tact Audio produces a sophisticated, high tech line of digital amplifiers, preamplifiers, and surround processors featuring its proprietary, award-winning room...
TAD Home Audio
California based TAD Audio makes both audiophile and pro audio speakers....
TagMcLaren Audio
Boasting two of the biggest names in European lifestyle good (Tag for Tag Heuer watches and McLaren from the F1 race team) this line of audiophile and home theater electronics are no longer imported to the United States....
Talk Electronics (Talk Saxon)
Talk Electronics is a small and obscure maker of audiophile electronics including the 2.2, the 3.1 and the Signature Series products. They also were known as Talk Saxon....
Talon Audio
Owned by Rives Audio, Talon Loudspeakers designs and manufactures a high-end line of loudspeaker products for both stereo and home theater applications. Talon products feature robust construction, top quality drivers, and an assortment of finish options....
Tandberg
Founded in 1933 in Norway, Tandberg made its reputation in the audio industry with its line of cassette decks, reel-to-reel tape decks, and tuners....
Tangent
Tangent was best known in the1980s as British speaker manufacturer. Tangent also produced an integrated amp designed by Tim De Paravicini. Today Tangent makes speakers such as the L26 floorstanding model....
Tannoy
Founded in 1926, Tannoy pioneered the Dual Concentric loudspeaker design, or 'coaxial' as is more commonly known, where the tweeter unit operates within the woofer unit. According to some critics, the Dual Concentric system promotes a more harmonic presentation and...
Taperwire
Taperwire makes a complete line of audio and video cables but is best known for its flat HDMI cable....
Tara Labs
Tara Labs is an audiophile maker of speaker cables, interconnects and other performance oriented cables and audiophile accessories....
TBI Audio Systems
Based in Georgia, TBI Audio Systems makes small speaker systems that are more designed for the lifestyle oriented user than the hardcore audiophile....
TDK
TDK makes various recordable media including CDR, DVD-R and other discs. TDK was best known for its recordable analog cassette tapes....
TDL
British loudspeaker company specializing in transmission line designs spanning both stereo and home theater applications....
Teac
Founded in 1953, the Tokyo Electro Acoustic Company began its long journey in consumer electronics by producing open-reel tape recorders. After discovering new ways to apply its recording technology to the professional audio world, TEAC founded TASCAM in 1971, which...
Technics
Matsushita introduced Technics in 1965 as a high-end audio brand, initially targeted at loudspeakers but eventually specializing in direct-drive turntables. These turntables gained some footing in the consumer market, but mainly carved out a niche within the professional audio community....
TEK Line
TEK Line makes audiophile, performance oriented AC power cables that have received industry respect....
Telarc
Telarc is an audiophile record label best known for pioneering 5.1 surround sound, classical audiophile recordings and beyond. The company was sold to Concord Records in 2005 and recently was downsized by 50 percent of its work force....
Tenor Audio
Canadian made tube electronics known for the wood finishes best describe Tenor Audio. Their latest amp is a 350 Watt per channel mono amp....
Teres Audio
Teres Audio is a small maker of audiophile grade, large format turntables including Certus 460 and 450, the Model 260 and the Model 265....
Teresonic LLC
San Jose based Teresonic, makes very modern looking speakers that attempt to bridge the gap between audiophile performance and the B&O good looks that lifestyle clients demand. Rich colors and wood tones along with female form inspiration begin to describe...
Terra Loudspeakers
Terra Loudspeakers are outdoor speakers that can take a licking and keep on ticking including snow, water and basically anything else you can throw at them....
Tetra Speakers, Inc.
Tetra Speakers are best known for their triangular audiophile speakers from Ottawa....
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Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments is parent company behind DLP Technology which is widely used in projectors and other video display devices....
Thales Audio
Thales Audio is a very small manufacturer of audiophile tone arms....
The BOLDER Cable Co.
The Boulder Cable Co. is a maker and reseller of audiophile grade cables, digital cables, speaker cables and more....
The Cable Company
Robert Stein's Cable Company is an audiophile well-kept secret as they stock nearly every brand of audiophile cable and accessory you might hope to audition and freely will send them to you for your own in-home testing....
The Chord Company
Not to be confused with Chord Electronics, The Chord Company is an audiophile cable company that sells interconnects, AC power cables and much more....
Theater Design Associates
TDA is a Chicago-based home theater seating company that very possibly is not in business any more....
Theater Research
Theater Research offers a robust line of speaker packages designed mainly for home theater and 7.1 use....
Thesis Audio
Thesis Audio is a maker of stone based turntables for audiophiles....
Theta Digital
One of the most acclaimed high end digital electronics brands of the 1980s and 1990s, Theta began as a quest to improve CD sound, modifying Philips CD players and eventually producing its own CD playback system comprised of separates. This...
THIEL Audio
Designed by the legendary Jim Thiel and marketed by the savvy Kathy Gornik, Thiel Loudspeakers have remained a fixture of high-end audio and home theater since the late 1970s. Thiel pioneered the now widely-used concepts of time and phase coherence...
Thor Audio
Thor Audio is owned today importer, Ted Lindblad, who also owns HighEndAudio.com. Thor Audio is not currently making audiophile electronics but Ted has aspirations of bringing the line back to market some day in the future....
Thorens
Quite possibly the world's most storied and accomplished phonograph company, Hermann Thorens founded his company in Switzerland in 1883. Thorens originally produced Edison-type phonographs, then developed two of the most important inventions in the format's history: the direct drive system...
Three 3DZ Audio
Three 3DZ Audio is a Colorado Springs based maker of custom loudspeakers....
Threshold
Founded in 1974 by legendary audio designer Nelson Pass, Threshold products carved out a very unique and lucrative niche between affordable high-end electronics and the lunatic fringe. Threshold products owned a stellar reputation for their robust champagne and silver cosmetics,...
Thule Audio
Thule Audio is an audiophile maker of electronics and amplifiers such as the Thule Audio PA350b Multi-channel amp....
Thule Space
Thule Space is an audiophile maker of electronics including CD transports, digital to analog converters and universal players that play DVD-Video, SACD and DVD-Audio discs. Thule Space is best known for their 250B/II universal player....
THX
THX is a company best known for setting audio and ultimately video standards for companies which made cinema sound match and be more uniformed. Founded by engineer, Tom Holman (purportedly the TH of the Tom Holman Experiment) the name of...
Tice Audio
Tice Audio is no longer in business. Historically, they were one of the first performance oriented audiophile AC power companies known for the Tice Wedge and more importantly the Tice Clock....
Tidal Audio
Tidal Audio is best know for making out-of-the-box and over-the-top marine speakers systems for boats....
Time Domain
Time Domain is a small maker of audiophile source components....
TiVo
TiVo was the first DVR or PVR and by many reviewer's statements today is still the best. TiVo's Apple-like ease of use and graphical user interface made is a consumer favorite nearly overnight. Companies like Sony made TiVo DVRs for...
Tivoli
Tivoli Audio makes some of the most forward thinking clock radios and small audio devices that include satellite radio, CD and Internet radio inside their often retro looking small cases....
Tjoeb
Tjoeb makes audiophile source components such as CD players with tube output stages....
TK Theaters
The TK in TK Theater is for designer Theo Kalomirakis who is the most published and well known home theater interior designer. Theo is best known for his art deco theater designs. Theo also has his own coffee table book...
Tom Evans Audio Design
Tom Evans Audio Design makes phono preamps and other audiophile electronics....
Tonian Labs
Tonian Labs is an imported speaker sold from Los Angeles that is a large format system aimed at audiophiles only....
Toshiba America Consumer Products, LLC
Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C. is owned by Toshiba America, Inc., a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, a world leader in high technology products with subsidiaries worldwide. Toshiba is a pioneer in DVD technology and a leading manufacturer of a...
Totem Acoustics
Founded in 1987 in Canada, Totem Acoustic started with one very successful model, the two-way Model 1, and produced only it for the next five years. The company has managed to not only build on that offering with numerous smaller,...
Townshend Audio
Famous for its high-end turntable designs, English made Townsend Audio defines why audiophiles spend insane amounts of money on components. Their over engineered (they might argue there is no such thing as over engineered) turntable system is pure sex. It's...
Transcendent Sound
Transcendent Sound is an audiophile tube electronics company that looks to be from Asia but is distributed in the United States through Kansas City....
Transcriptors Limited
Transcriptors Limited makes wild-looking audiophile turntables known for their hydraulic mechanism. They are best known for their IKOS turntable....
Transparent Audio
Transparent Audio is known as one of if not the leader in high end audio and video cables. While their product line starts in more modest levels, Transparent is known for the Opus line of cables that cost tens upon...
Transrotor
Transrotor makes some of the most wild, audiophile turntables known to man. Large format tables with acrylic decks and beautiful brushed aluminum parts make for a visual statement as much as a sonic one....
Trenner & Friedl
German made Trenner & Friedl speakers are not well known in the United States but these amazingly engineered speakers are very exotic and well built....
Tri
Tri is a very cool, high end single maker of Japanese single ended triode amps for audiophile use. The build quality of these amps is top notch and while they are a tube product they also come with a small...
Tri-Planar
Tri-Planar is an ultra-high-end maker of audiophile tone arms. Tri-Planar is the brain child of Herb Papier and is best known for products like the Tri-Planar MK. 1 tone arm, the Tri-Planar MK. 2 tone arm and the (you guessed...
Triad Speakers
One of the most successful and formidable custom loudspeaker companies in the world, Portland-based Triad Loudspeakers designs and manufactures virtually every product in its inventory in its own facility in Portland, utilizing custom designs mated with premium parts and state-of-the-art...
Triangle
Triangle is a French speaker maker best known for the Triangle Electroacoustique Titus XS Mini Monitor speakers....
Tributaries
Founded by executives from McIntosh, Tributaries has produced a comprehensive line of audio, video, digital, and power cables receiving consistent critical acclaim not only for performance but also value....
Trichord Research
Trichord Research is a British maker of phono preamps and other audiophile tweaky upgrades....
Trigon Audio
Trigon Audio is a German maker of audiophile electronics such as the TRV 100 preamp and the SnowWhite preamp as well as the TRE50m mono amp....
Trilogy
Trilogy is a line of UK-made tube amps. Trilogy is a company founded by Nic Poulsen. Trilogy recently re-appeared with all-new line after 10-year hiatus from the audiophile and enthusiast audio world....
Tripoint Audio
Tripoint Audio makes a passive EMI/RFI filtration device to filter noise from your audiophile system....
Tripp Lite
Tripp Lite is an industrial grade AC power product company often used by home theater enthusiasts and audiophiles to protect and improve the performance of their gear....
Tron Electric
Makers of the Tron Seven preamp and other audiophile electronics....
Tru Audio
Tru Audio makes in-wall and in-ceiling speakers for the custom install and custom integrator market....
TruLife Audio
Greek made single ended tube audiophile electronics. Also known as TLA Audio in some circles....
Tube Audio Design
Tube Audio Designs is a direct-to-the-consumer maker of tube amps with a sense of humor. Their Hibachi TAD-125 amps actually look like a Hibachi grill. Their "Iron Lung" AC power cables look like they were stolen from a hospital....
Tube Research Labs
Tube Research Labs is a very small maker of tube electronics that has that home made look and feel to it. They are based in Quincy, Washington....
Tube Technology
Tube Technology, from Surrey England, is one sexy line of tube based electronics that can actually stack on top of each other thus making their own equipment rack and provide for ample cooling for the sexy looking amps and electronics....
TW Acustic
TW Acustic is an extreme audiophile turntable manufacturer known best for their Raventone turntable....
Tyler Acoustics
Based in Kentucky, Tyler Acoustics produces handcrafted high-end active and passive loudspeakers for both stereo and home theater applications, all sold factory direct....
Ultralink
The biggest cable brand in Canada and now marketed by legendary audio executive Don Bouchard, Ultralink produces a myriad of affordable to reference grade audio, video, digital, and power cable solutions, with a special emphasis on HDTV connectivity solutions. Ultralink...
Unison Research
Based in Italy, Unison Research produces a select line of handcrafted, meticulously engineered tube and solid state amplifiers and preamplifiers (some operating in pure Class A mode), featuring a stunning cosmetic profile combining wood and metal....
Unity Audio
Unity Audio today is more of a distributor of audiophile and pro audio products in the United Kingdom. They are not a well known audiophile brand on their own....
Universal Electronics
Universal Electronics is a premium maker of home automation, lighting control and other whole-home control products....
Universal Remote Control
Universal Remote is a premium maker of home theater and HDTV remote control systems. Universal Remotes can be one hand or two hand touch screen units....
Usher Audio
Designed and manufactured in Taiwan for over 30 years, Usher Audio offers a comprehensive line of affordable and reference grade in-room loudspeakers produced with incredible craftsmanship and a unique cosmetic combination of wood and metal, along with a complementary line...
V.Y.G.E.R.
V.Y.G.E.R. is a maker of very extreme audiophile turntables including the Baltic M....
Vacuum State Electronics
Founded in 1982 in Australia, today Vacuum State Electronics is based in Switzerland. They make tube audiophile electronics as well as modifications to SACD and Compact Disc players....
Valve Amplification Company
Founded in 1990, Valve Amplification Company has consistently produced some of the world's finest and most critically acclaimed tube-based amplifiers, preamplifiers, and even a D/A Converter. To re-issue some of its most classic products, Marantz enlisted the assistance of VAC....
Valve Audio
Valve Audio is a South African maker of audiophile tube amps, and preamps like the Exclame, Predator and Whisper....
Vampire Wire
Vampire Wire is an audiophile and home theater maker of speaker cables, interconnects and many other varieties of AV cables and parts....
van den Hul
van den Hul is a British maker of esoteric audiophile cables and high performance cartridges....
Vandersteen Audio
Vandersteen Speakers are some of the most well known in the audiophile world. While not beauties compared to more modern designs, their fans love their liquid and smooth sound with overall musicality....
Vantage Controls
Vantage Controls is a high end solution for home automation in new homes and retrofit installations....
Vantage Point
Vantage Point makes mounts, equipment racks and thousands of other home theater and AV oriented products and accessories....
Vaughn Loudspeakers
Vaughn Loudspeakers is a Eureka California based audiophile speaker company that is marketed to the hardcore audiophile market. They are best known for the Duetto, Zinfandel and Pinot speakers. Who says we aren't products of our environment?...
VDN OTL Tube Technology
VDN OTL Tube Technology is a Croatian audiophile tube electronics company....
Veloce Audio
Veloce Audio is an Ambler, Pennsylvania based audiophile electronics company that features some very good looking solid state designs including the Paltino LS1 Preamp, the V6 amp and the V8 amp. They of course also make a V12 power amp....
Velodyne
Velodyne History 101 In 1983, David Hall, the founder and chief engineer of Velodyne Acoustics, Inc., introduced a technological breakthrough in subwoofer design that redefined low frequency reproduction. The ULD-18 incorporated a patented, accelerometer based High Gain Servo system to...
Venture BVBA
Venture speakers do not have their own website which is worrisome but seem to be imported by Precision Audio Video. From the best we can tell they are audiophile based speakers that use some form of ribbon tweeter....
Verastarr
Smyrna, Georgia based Verastarr makes some massive multi-channel amps including a 6×440 Watt monster called the SSA-644 as well as the slightly less powerful Studio 6.4. These amps are monsters....
Verbatim Cable
Due to a lack of a website it is not clear if this Memphis, Tennessee based audiophile cable company is still in business. Their cables still sell on some retail sites (online) and on Audiogon....
Verity Audio
Verity Audio designs and manufactures a handful of ultra high-end loudspeaker products featuring the stacked tweeter/woofer module design popularized by companies like Wilson Audio in its WATT/Puppy. All of Verity's designs feature a rear-firing woofer module for optimal room placement,...
Versa
Versa is an American turntable and accessory manufacturer founded by designer John Bicht. Versa, in its day, was the hottest turntable on the market. Today a Versa turntable is a highly sought after collector's item in the enthusiast world....
VH Audio
VH Audio makes audiophile cables and DIY parts for in-the-know audiophiles....
Vibrapod
St. Louis based Vibrapod is best known for their rubber isolation feet for audiophile electronics and source components....
VidaBox
Vidabox makes a full line of robust media center PCs and media servers that include support for DVD, Blu-ray, surround sound and much more....
Vidikron
Originally an OEM for brands like Hitachi and Pioneer, Vidikron began producing its own line of video projectors in 1980, and instantly rose to the top of the industry, next to brands such as Runco (now its current owner). Featuring...
Vienna Acoustics
Based in Vienna, Vienna Acoustics produces an ultra high-end line of audio and home theater loudspeakers, along with some custom installation friendly offerings. Featuring custom drivers and meticulous voicing, testing and quality control methods partnered with superb cosmetics and exclusive...
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ViewSonic
ViewSonic is best known for computer monitors but have branched out into the world of video projectors, HDTV set and other more home theater oriented products. They have very wide distribution including computer retailers, warehouse stores like Costco and beyond....
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Vimak
Vimak makes esoteric audiophile electronics in Hong Kong....
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Vince Christian Ltd
Why Vince Christian has a picture of a hot chick on his contact page is beyond me but I definitely approve. His "island mounting" approach to speaker design is both modern and unique as well as pretty stylish....
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Vincent Audio
Founded in 1995, Vincent Audio produces multiple extremely diverse and complete lines of German-designed tube, solid state, and hybrid audio and home theater products across virtually every significant category: amplifiers, preamplifiers, integrated amplifiers, receivers, CD players, tuners, loudspeakers...and even racks...
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Viola Audio Labs
Viola Audio Labs is an off-shoot of Mark Levinson's Cello. While Cello is long gone, Viola is still making very good high end audio products including the Bravo power amp and the Spirto Preamp....
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Virtual Dynamics
Virtual Dynamics is a Canadian maker of audiophile cables....
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Visual Reality (Goo Systems)
Goo Systems makes a full range of paint-on screens. They sell their paint, the brushes and all of the tools needed to paint a wall in a way to make it a respectable video screen surface for the enthusiast looking...
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Vitus Audio
Danish producer of high end amplifiers, preamplifiers, phono stages and interconnects...
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VIVA Audio Devices
VIVA Audio Devices is an Italian tube electronics company best known for their Sintesi 572 single ended triode amp....
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Vivid Audio
Vivid Audio is a South African maker of very modern looking almost organic-in-shape loudspeakers. Vivid Audio, not to be confused with Vivid Video which is far more X-rated, is best known for products like the Vivid Audio B1, the Vivid...
VMPS
VMPS is a speaker company that markets to the audiophile community with ribbon tweeters and is best known for their large format and very dynamic loudspeakers....
Voba Acoustic
While flying very much under the radar, Voba makes one hell of a nice loudspeaker in Roswell, Georgia. They also have a very slick website....
Voce Divina
From the hot bed of speaker design, Utah comes Voce Divina which is known the Tenore and Basso speakers....
Volent Corp. Ltd.
Volent is a Hong Kong based speaker company that has been around for 25 plus years....
Von Gaylord Audio
Von Gaylord Audio makes audiophile electronics and speakers that bare a striking resemblance to Wilson's WATT speaker of WATT Puppy fame....
Von Schweikert Audio
Von Schweikert Audio is a well known, large format audiophile speaker system that competes with the likes of Wilson Audio's MAXX and Alexandria speakers....
Voodoo Audio
Voodoo Audio is a critically acclaimed audiophile speaker and interconnect company....
VOOM
VOOM was the first fully HDTV based satellite network. The equipment didn't work well and the project failed. Ultimately, VOOM's programming was merged into Dish Network which is where it can be seen today at HD resolutions....
Voyd Turntables
High end turntables produced by Guy Adams in the UK...
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VPI
VPI has been making audiophile turntables for over 30 years and today sells some upgrades and products direct to the consumer....
VPI Industries
VPI Industries is a legendary maker of audiophile turntables....
VTL
A high end tube electronics staple since 1989, Luke Manley founded Vacuum Tube Logic as an extension of his family's prolific production of legendary tube products. VTL produces a select line of high-end tube amplifiers, preamplifiers, and integrated amplifiers, all...
VUDU
VUDU is a media server and download service that allows consumers to download their movies, television and other content directly into their home theater without the need for discs....
Vutec
Vutec makes some of the most high performance video screens on the market today....
Wadia
Named after Don Wadia Moses Wadia is one of the most important companies in the advancement of audiophile digital playback. Today, despite Don's recent passing - the company makes a very cool and extremely relevant Apple iPod dock as well...
Walker Audio
Producer of ultra high-end turntables and phono accessories....
WAR
WAR is one of the most obscure audiophile makers of British speakers. WAR saw some level of provenance in the 1980s but today is not found in the marketplace or on the Internet whatsoever....
Waterfall
Waterfall is a French manufacturer of speakers with glass enclosures. Waterfall loudspeakers was founded in 1996 by Cedric Aubriot. Still in business today, Waterfall is noted for products like the Niagara, the Waterfall Victoria Evo and the Waterfall high force...
Wattgate
Wattgate is an Ogden, Utah based AC power cable company for audiophile systems. Many of Wattgate's products use silver as their cable material....
WAVAC Audio
WAVAC Audio is a Japanese audiophile electronics company that also makes an AC power conditioner....
Wavelength Audio
Producer of handmade, ultra high-end tube based amplifiers and USB DACs....
WBT-USA
WBT is the best known cable connector manufacturer in the world....
WEGG3
WEGG3 makes home automation and lighting control systems as well as high performance loudspeakers....
Welborne Labs
Longtime supplier of kits and components to the audio DIY community....
Well Tempered Labs
In the mid-1980s, William Firebaugh invented what many still believe to be the finest tonearm every designed: the Well Tempered Arm. From there came a line of equally well-regarded turntables and phono accessories that still attract fans to this day....
Westinghouse Digital
Westinghouse Digital makes low priced, mass market HDTVs as well as a full compliments of electronics products including digital photo frames and much more....
Westlake Audio
Westlake Audio is a major player in the professional audio world and have made recent in roads into the consumer and audiophile markets. Their incredible dynamics make them a very strong solution for large home theater installations that need the...
Wharfedale
Wharfedale is one of the best known British makers of audiophile speakers and mini-monitors in the world. The Wharfedale Diamond series including the Diamond 8 speakers are specifically of note. Wharfedale has both powered and passive speaker systems for consumer...
Whatmough Monitors
Whatmough Monitors is an Australian speaker maker known for their Synergy 2 and Performance Series loudspeakers....
Whest
Whest is a British maker of audiophile electronics including an analog processor, a phono stage and a line of internconnects....
White Audio Labs
White Audio Labs made and sold audiophile power amps and preamps such as the B2 and A100 models. They are seemingly not in business today....
WHT Speakers
WHT Speakers make ultra-high efficiency audiophile loudspeakers from Australia....
Wilson Audio
After years of intensive work on perfecting the time domain quandary in loudspeakers, engineer David Wilson received a patent for his efforts, and put all of his knowledge into his first production loudspeaker: the $30,000 Wilson WAMM. Wilson Audio was...
Wilson Benesch
Wilson Benesch speakers are a very high end brand of audiophile speakers from England....
Wireworld
Wirewold makes a full compliment of audiophile and home theater cables including a slick HDMI cable....
Wisdom Audio
Founded in 1996, Wisdom Audio initially designed and manufactured high-end hybrid loudspeakers incorporating both planar and dynamic driver elements. Wisdom has since focused solely on its formidable architectural loudspeaker products that also utilize hybrid designs, along with a full line...
WLM Loudspeakers
WLM Loudspeakers make very exotic (some speakers come in what looks to be zebra wood) ultra-high output audiophile loudspeakers....
Wolcott Sound
A cult favorite, Wolcott Audio made its name within the high end audio underground with its omni-directional Omnisphere Loudspeaker System. Wolcott has since also introduced a line tube amplifiers called 'Presence'....
Wood Artistry
Healdsburg, California based Wood Artistry puts the cabinet first in the speakers and offer many choices of exotic wood finishes on their audiophile speakers....
WoodSong Audio
Woodsong Audio makes a wooden base for turntables for ultra-extreme audiophile use....
Wright Audio
Makers of audiophile amps, preamps and integrated amps from Eugene, Oregon....
Wright Sound
From Kent, Washington comes point to point wired, handmade tube electronics for audiophile use. Wright Sound sells direct to the consumer and also has a Signature line....
Wyetech Labs
Wytech Labs makes audiophile electronics including the Topaz 211C stereo amp, the Onyx monoblock, the Sapphire Monoblock and the Coral line stage preamp....
Xavian Electronics
Czech manufacturer of audiophile grade speaker systems for two channel or complete multi-channel systems. Available in a multitude of finishes. They are not currently represented in the United States....
Xhifi
Founded in 2002 by high-end audio legend Mel Schilling and his son, Howard, Xhifi helped pioneer the concept of bringing high-end audio performance to everyday sources like the computer, mp3 player, mobile phone, and gaming console. Xhifi's debut product, the...
Xindak Audio
Chinese manufacturer of complete audiophile grade systems. They make everything from CD players, DACs, preamps and amplifiers in both solid state and tube based models in several levels....
XLO Electric
Founded in 1990 by noted cable designer Roger Skoff, XLO Electric gained notoriety within the high end audio underground for its unusual looking, high performance analog interconnects. The company eventually successfully broadened its product offerings with additional audio, video, digital,...
XM Satellite Radio
XM Satellite Radio was the first satellite radio company to come to market. XM was merged with Sirius in 2008 and the consolidated company is struggling to pay its debt and stay in business....
Y B A
French manufacturer of audiophile grade components with that audiophile jewelry appearance and sound. The company produces everything you could need from CD players, preamps and amps as well as having their own line of wires....
Yamaha
Founded in 1887 as a piano and reed organ manufacturer, today Yamaha holds the distinction as the world's largest musical instrument manufacturer, producing virtually every kind of musical solution across almost every musical category, at state-of-the-art quality and reliability levels....
Yamamoto Soundcraft
Japanese manufacturer of audiophile grade tube amps and preamps as well as stands and tweaks as well as bare speaker boxes and power bricks....
Yaqin Audio
Japanese manufacturer of audiophile grade tube amplifiers....
Yarland Audio
Chinese manufacturer of audiophile grade tube amplifiers in both stereo and mono block configurations....
YG Acoustics
A Denver based US audiophile speaker manufacturer who is bold enough to claim their speakers as the best in the world. Made to exacting standard and with robotic appearances and aerospace prices they have set a high bar for themselves....
Ypsilon Electronics
Maker of high end vacuum tube amps and CD players, they currently have no website and only one listed distributor in the UK....
YS Audio
Chinese manufacturer of audiophile level amps and preamps as well as phono preamps and step up transformers....
Yter Cables
Yter is an Italian audiophile cable manufacturer. The designer of Yter cables is metallurgist Massimiliano Favella which is the son-in-law of Sonus Faber founder Franco Serblin....
Z-Systems
Producer of professional grade sample rate converters and digital signal processors for the professional and consumer audio markets....
Zanden Audio
Japanese manufacturer of absolute state of the art high end audio products including phono stages, transports, DACs, preamps and amplifiers. Zanden is famous for their rich gold finishes that truly elevate their product to the audio jewelry category....
Zebra Cables
US manufacturer of custom AV cables providing everything from power cords to speaker wire and parts supply as well for the do it yourselfer....
Zenith
One of the pioneers of television, Zenith started as a radio producer in 1918, and went on to develop some of the television industry's most notable inventions, including the wireless remote control and flat screen CRT picture tubes, and helped...
Zentara Cables
US based manufacturer of audiophile level power cords, interconnects and speaker wire. All wires can be custom made to your specific needs and system making for not only a clean install but ideal sound....
Zeta
Zeta is a UK-made tone arm from the 1980s. Zeta is best known for their straight arm-tube, gloss-black finish. Zeta were highly regarded tone arms in the 1980's and are even more sought-after by high-end audio collectors today....
Zingali
Zingali is an Italian maker of loudspeakers made of gorgeous woods and unique designs. They make complete lines for multi-channel systems including center channel speakers and subwoofers in several lines....
Zu Audio
Zu Audio is a Utah based audiophile company that specializes in limited driver loudspeakers but also produces high end wire and phono cartridges....
Zvox
Founded by the marketing guru behind Cambridge Soundworks Tom Hanniher, Zvox Audio sells audiophile grade speakers designed specifically for the flat HDTV market. One-speaker solutions, slightly higher end but not-too-expensive sound bars and other reasonable speakers make up the Zvox...
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SANYO Donates Its 3,000,000th Projector Sold -
SANYO will conduct a ceremony to celebrate the manufacture and shipment of their 3 millionth projector, the PLC-WTC500L. The 2:00pm ceremony will be held at Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech) with top executives from SANYO North America and AVI-SPL... Click for more...
Toto and Eminem Coming To Blu-ray On October 20, 2009 -
On October 20, Toto Falling In Between Live and Eminem Live From New York City will be given the Blu-ray treatment via Eagle Rock Entertainment's Eagle Vision subsidiary [pre-book order date September 30, MSRP $24.98]. Originally released on standard DVD... Click for more...
Paradigm's $299 Perfect Bass Kit Can Help All Of Their Subwoofers -
Paradigm just announced the availability of the Perfect Bass Kit (PBK-1) Room Correction System for every subwoofer in the Paradigm collection. With PBK, the effects of room boundaries on bass quality are a thing of the past. This state-of-the-art bass... Click for more...
Denon's New AVR-4810CI 9.3 Channel Receiver -
Denon just introduced the AVR-4810CI Audio/Video Receiver (SRP: $2,999), a next-generation 9.3 channel multi-zone A/V receiver that offers high-quality distribution of audio and video throughout the home. With nine built-in amplifiers that can be configured to a host of system... Click for more...
Dynaudio's Puccini Sound System For The New Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport -
When launched, the Bugatti Veyron set new benchmarks in engineering and performance for a Super Sport, so when developing an audio system for the new Bugatti Grand Sport only the best would do. The all-new Puccini Sound System features dedicated... Click for more...
Panasonic's New PT-AE4000U $2,495 1080p Projector -
Panasonic Projector just announced the debut of its newest LCD home theater projector with 1080p (1,920 x 1,080 pixel) native resolution: the PT-AE4000U. Designed for home theater enthusiasts and audio video professionals who desire an immersive home entertainment viewing experience,... Click for more...
EASY RIDER coming to Blu-ray on October 13 -
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of EASY RIDER, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will debut the Oscar®-nominated counterculture classic October 13th on high definition Blu-ray Disc. The epitome of cool, EASY RIDER, was released during the Woodstock era and features a... Click for more...
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Marantz Adds Flagship Blu-ray Player To Its Lineup -
Marantz is expanding its line of advanced Blu-ray players to include four Profile 2.0 models, all with Ethernet connectivity and features to increase flexibility in both playback and installation. Leading the new lineup is the company's highly anticipated flagship player,... Click for more...
Polk Introduces New Nearly Invisible In-Wall Speakers -
Polk just introduced Vanishing Series, a technologically advanced lineup of in-wall speakers featuring low-profile cosmetics that are nearly invisible once installed. Vanishing Series speakers will provide dealers, integrators and installers with a compelling new way to offer superior Polk sound... Click for more...
Godzilla Coming To Blu-ray on Nov. 10 -
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment introduces a behemoth of a Blu-ray Disc with the November 10, 2009 release of Godzilla for the SLP of $24.95. Co-written and directed by premiere action auteur Roland Emmerich (Day After Tomorrow, 2012), this modern-day take... Click for more...
Sherwood Starts Shipping The Netboxx R-904N Internet AV Receiver -
Sherwood just announced its initial shipments of the R-904N Netboxx Internet A/V receiver. This highly compact and distinctively styled 7.1 channel receiver is equally adept at the playback of both physical disc media and Internet/streaming media, without requiring a PC.... Click for more...
Paradigm Ships New Hexagonal Shaped Signature Subwoofer -
Paradigm just introduced the Reference Signature SUB 1 and SUB 2 as the flagship models in its growing line of high-performance subwoofers. The SUB 1 and SUB 2 models are more powerful than any other Paradigm speaker to date; they... Click for more...
Integra's New 9.2 Channel AV Receivers -
Integra is out with a new line of 9.2 AV receivers for the fall selling season. The four new network-capable A/V receivers and two preamplifier/processors include Integra's first 9.2-channel audio systems for the ultimate in home theater sound or expanded... Click for more...
Krell Introduces New S-275 and S-150M Power Amps -
Krell Industries, Inc. just introduced two new S Series amplifiers, the S-275 and S-150M. Designed with modern day space constraints in mind; the S-275 and S-150M deliver legendary Krell amplifier performance in new slim line designs. The S-275 and S-150... Click for more...
New DVDO iScan Duo Video Processor Has Dual HDMI A/V Outputs -
Anchor Bay announced recently the introduction of their latest high-performance video processor, the DVDO iScan Duo. With 8 HDMI 1.3 inputs, 2 HDMI 1.3 video/audio outputs, and an HDMI 1.3 audio only output, plus an array of image and system... Click for more...
IMAX Chooses Audyssey Laboratories For Theaters in 2010 -
Audyssey Laboratories and IMAX Corporation just announced a partnership to use MultEQ, the ground-breaking acoustical correction technology developed by Audyssey, to calibrate and tune IMAX® theater sound systems beginning in 2010. Audyssey MultEQ is the world's leading technology used for... Click for more...
Control4 Unveils New Operating System - OS 2.0 -
Control4 just showed its second-generation operating system ("OS 2.0") at CEDIA EXPO 2009. Control4's OS 2.0 will enable new levels of customization for the installer and personalization for the homeowner. This next-generation release offers new home-control functionality, easy-to-access whole-home systems,... Click for more...
All Six Rocky Films Coming To Blu-ray -
This holiday season, a "nobody" becomes a "somebody" when Rocky: The Undisputed Collection unveils all six powerhouse films together on stunning Blu-ray Disc (BD) November 3 from MGM Home Entertainment. This definitive collection enshrines the rags to riches tale of... Click for more...
Denon's New 9.3 Channel AVR-4810CI AV Receiver -
Denon recently introduced theAVR-4810CI Audio/Video Receiver (SRP: $2,999), a next-generation 9.3 channel multi-zone A/V receiver that offers high-quality distribution of audio and video throughout the home*. With nine built-in amplifiers that can be configured to a host of system designs,... Click for more...
Runco Releases New "Affordable" LightStyle Projectors -
Runco just unveiled its LightStyleTM Series projectors. Comprising of the LS-3, LS-5, and LS-7 projectors, the Runco LightStyle Series combines 1080 video and integration features with value pricing and sophisticated design elements that custom installers and their customers will revere.... Click for more...
Wireworld Introduces New Glass Optical Cables For Use With Mac Computers -
Wireworld has introduced a new series of optical digital cables that utilize conductors made of 280 glass fibers, rather than the common plastic monofilament conductor, to provide improved sound quality in home theater, computer audio and professional audio applications. In... Click for more...
Samsung's New 65 Inch LCD HDTV -
Samsung just announced availability for its latest CCFL-backlit LCD TV- the 65 inch LCD 650 Series (LN65B650) with 1080p resolution. The latest entry in the LCD 650 Series TVs will deliver Auto Motion Plus™ 120Hz refresh rate, fast 4ms response... Click for more...
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NAD's New Flagship M56 Blu-ray Player -
NAD Electronics just showed a glimpse at the new Masters Series M56 Blu-ray Player at the recent CEDIA tradeshow in Atlanta, Georgia. Boasting full support for the latest HD audio and video formats, plus compatibility with existing CD and DVD... Click for more...
LG To Add VUDU To Its Blu-ray Players -
LG Electronics today announced the addition of the high-definition streaming movie service from VUDU, Inc. to the LG Wireless Network Blu-ray Player (model BD390). With VUDU, consumers can instantly buy or rent from an extensive library of movies and TV... Click for more...
Two New Wireless LCD HDTVs From LG -
With an effort to improve options for custom AV installers, LG Electronics is highlighting its first-ever series of wireless LCD HDTVs, including an LED model. Whether it's design, technology or screen size, LG's wireless HDTVs have something for everyone, according... Click for more...
RBH Introduces a Unique In-wall Surround Speaker -
RBH Sound just introduced a new addition to their award-winning Signature Series In-wall speaker lineup. RBH Sound has many proven monopole in-wall models within their Signature Series which can be used for surround channels, but the SI 744 is the... Click for more...
Onkyo's New HT Series of Receivers -
Onkyo has introduced a new family of audio-video receivers called the Onkyo HT Series. The new HT line is an extension of AV receivers developed for the company's packaged systems line--building on Onkyo's core competencies, while streamlining feature sets. The... Click for more...
Atlantic Technology and Solus/Clements Introduce H-PAS™ Bass Technology -
Atlantic Technology and Solus/Clements recently announced that they have joined forces to develop, market, and license a revolutionary new loudspeaker design protocol capable of delivering deep, low-distortion bass response at output levels unobtainable through conventional bass-alignment techniques. In particular, this... Click for more...
Angels & Demons Coming to Blu-ray -
The team behind the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code returns for the box office smash Angels & Demons, coming to 2-Disc Extended Edition DVD and Blu-ray Disc™ November 24 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The film will also be... Click for more...
Sherwood's New Netboxx R-904 Internet AV Receiver -
Sherwood America Inc. announced recently its initial shipments of the R-904N NetBoxx™ Internet A/V receiver. This highly compact and distinctively styled 7.1 channel receiver is equally adept at the playback of both physical disc media and Internet/streaming media, without requiring... Click for more...
Panasonic Ready To Release 85 Inch Plasma In October 2009 -
Panasonic Professional Display Company just showcased their new 85-inch Plasma display, available next month, at CEDIA 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia. The industry's first 85-inch, full HD 1080p Plasma, the TH-85PF12U takes advantage of Panasonic's Neo PDP technology™, touting slimmer, lighter... Click for more...
JVC's New Line of D-ILA Projectors Are ISF Approved and Boast High Contrast -
At this past CEDIA tradeshow in Atlanta, JVC updated its award-winning line of D-ILA home theater projectors with the introduction of six new models, each offering the high native contrast that has made JVC projectors top-selling favorites among the most... Click for more...
New Paradigm Reference Signature Series v.3 Speakers -
Paradigm is about to introduce the third version of its flagship Paradigm Reference Signature Series. Thousands of "no-holds-barred" Paradigm research and engineering hours went into developing the Signature Series v.3 speakers, which are the highest-output, most dynamic high-end loudspeakers ever... Click for more...
Samsung Announces YouTube Service for Select Blu-ray Players -
Samsung Electronics America today announced the availability of YouTube on select Samsung Blu-ray players. Owners of the BD-P1600, BD-P3600 or BD-P4600 Blu-ray players will be able to enjoy user-generated content on YouTube by uploading the value-added service at no additional... Click for more...
Meridian Reveals the Next Gen Meridian Sooloos: Sooloos 2.0 -
Meridian, next week will debut an exciting series of updates that dramatically increase the power and flexibility of the Meridian Sooloos media-management system. A Meridian Sooloos system creates a centralized, shared source of music for everyone in the home with... Click for more...
Wisdom Audio's New Sage Series Speakers For Behind Video Screens -
Wisdom Audio is ready to launch two new Sage Series models at the 2009 CEDIA Expo, held in Atlanta from Sept. 10-13 at the Georgia World Congress Center, booth SR-8. The L100i and C150i have been designed as Sage Series... Click for more...
Procella Audio Launches With High End Horn Loaded Speakers For Home Theater Use -
Procella Audio is launching operations in the United States with the opening of its Los Angeles office. The company will make its U.S. debut in booth 6235 in the B Hall at the CEDIA Expo in Atlanta Georgia, September 10... Click for more...
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Runco Introduces New VX-33i and VX-33s Projectors -
Runco today introduced its VideoXtreme VX-33i and VX-33d, the latest additions to its broad portfolio of performance projectors. The Runco VX-33i and VX-33d are engineered to bring the Runco video experience to home theaters that boast cinema-sized screens. These new... Click for more...
CEA and CNET Say Consumer Confidence Increased In August 2009 -
Consumer confidence in the overall economy improved in August, as consumer confidence in technology and consumer electronics (CE) jumped in the same period, according to the latest figures from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® and CNET. The CEA-CNET Index of... Click for more...
Niveus' New Zone Pro Multi-room Media Server -
Niveus Media just released the all new "ZONE PRO" media player. The ZONE PRO is now the fastest product in the ZONE family, featuring a 3x speed increase over the original ZONE. Faster speed equals faster applications, snappier movie library... Click for more...
2L Records Release Piano Music of Edvard Grieg on Blu-ray and SACD in Surround. -
The magic of a "time machine" brings Percy Grainger's original performance back to life in this modern surround-sound recording with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rolf Gupta. Edvard Grieg himself bears witness to the validity and authenticity of Grainger's... Click for more...
Original Star Trek Season 2 Coming To Blu-ray With Content For iPhones and More -
Experience one of the greatest action-adventure sagas like never before when the thrilling second season of STAR TREK®: THE ORIGINAL SERIES blasts onto Blu-ray disc September 22 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. The seven-disc set features all... Click for more...
Family Guy Star Wars Parody Coming to Blu-ray -
"Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Darkside" Synopsis The story of The Empire Strikes Back is retold. Darth Vader (Stewie) is hunting the rebel Luke Skywalker (Chris) and his troops relentlessly across the galaxy. On the ice planet Hoth, Luke... Click for more...
Red Wine Audio's New Battery Powered Stereo Preamp -
Audiophile up-and-comer, Red Wine Audio, just unveiled the Isabellina HPA integrated Headphone Amplifier and Digital-to-Analog Converter -- combining their highly-acclaimed Isabellina DAC with the headphone stage originally developed for their award-winning Isabella vacuum-tube preamplifier. Featuring simplicity in design, coupled with... Click for more...
Onkyo's Three New Network Internet Radio AV Receivers -
Onkyo has introduced three network- and Internet-radio-capable, 9.2-channel THX Ultra2 Plus certified A/V receivers that deliver all the power, processing, and features to support cutting edge home theater and whole-house entertainment. The three new models, the Onkyo TX-NR1007, TX-NR3007, and... Click for more...
Linn Updates Software For Their Media Servers -
Linn Products is set to launch its most advanced software to date for its range of Linn DS players. Linn Cara, a new family of software, enriches the way Linn DS owners interact with their music collection and lets them... Click for more...
Sony and Best Buy To Sell Exclusive ALTUS Line of Electronics -
Representing nearly two years of cooperation in market research and engineering efforts, Sony Electronics Inc. and Best Buy Co., Inc. today announced the new "ALTUS" audio product line. Featuring a stylish assortment of wireless music systems, speakers, and home theater... Click for more...
Definitive Technology Launches Super-thin On-wall Speakers -
Definitive Technology just announced three new speaker models. The first is the Mythos XTR®-50 an ultra thin (1.5″ deep) on-wall, on-shelf loudspeaker that delivers a level of high performance previously thought impossible in shallow enclosure speakers. The others are home... Click for more...
Niveus Offers Free Windows 7 Upgrade For New Clients This Fall -
Niveus Media just announced a new program that provides customers who purchase a Niveus Media Server product between August 13th, 2009 and October 21st, 2009, with a free factory upgrade to Windows 7 Professional or Home Premium (64-bit), scheduled to... Click for more...
In-wall Speaker Company, SpeakerCraft To Sell an AV Receiver -
SpeakerCraft announced the introduction of two A/V receivers. A first for the company best know for its custom installed loudspeakers, these two receivers are part of a larger overall focus on electronics. "Many of our dealers have expressed a desire... Click for more...
Digital Projection Offers Their Value Calculator -
And you thought Bill James got fancy with his Sabremetric scientific look at the game of baseball? Digital Projection, a company making a move in the home theater space but best known for their beyond 1080p professional projectors, has gone... Click for more...
Dish Network's Profit Dips 81 Percent -
While satellite HDTV provider, Dish Network's revenue was pretty much flat, their profits as reported this past Monday are flat lining - off 81 percent from a year ago. Dish has been aggressively advertising that they are the "low cost"... Click for more...
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Hitachi To Acquire Remaining Shares of Hitachi Maxell Ltd. -
The Hitachi Group announced its decision, by way of a tender offer, to acquire the common stock of Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. Hitachi believes that the move to acquire Hitachi Maxell as a wholly owned subsidiary will reinforce Hitachi Maxell's business... Click for more...
Toshiba To Make Blu-ray Players Late in 2009 -
The Eagles said that they would reunite "when hell freezes over" but somehow they all ended up on a stage together again. In a similar move, Toshiba is reported to be preparing a Blu-ray product offering slated for release later... Click for more...
Onkyo's New AV Receiver Plays Back Internet Radio and Network Sources -
Onkyo has introduced and begun shipping its first network-capable home theater receiver configured for Pandora, Rhapsody, and Sirius' streaming internet radio services. The new Onkyo TX-NR807 also capable of playing computer music files from networked PCs, is fully compatible with... Click for more...
Sony's Quarterly Profit Dives $390,000,000 -
Sony, one of the world's most respected names in electronics, posted a staggering $390,000,000 loss in the quarter ending June 30, 2009. As compared to a year earlier - Sony profited to the tune of 35 billion yet thus the... Click for more...
This Is Spinal Tap! Now Out On Blu-ray -
The legendary rock-u-drama directed by Rob Reiner, This is Spinal Tap!, is now out on Blu-ray. Featuring a Blu-ray disc that will reportedly go to 11, Spinal Tap is a must have for any movie buff. The Blu-ray version of... Click for more...
Marantz Adds New Blu-ray Players To Product Lineup -
Marantz is expanding its line of Blu-ray players to include four Profile 2.0 models, all with Ethernet connectivity and features to increase flexibility in both playback and installation. Leading the new lineup is the company's highly anticipated flagship player, the... Click for more...
Runco's New Line of Plasma HDTVs With OPAL Technology -
Runco just added multiple new 1080p plasma monitors to its line of high-end video display solutions. The five new CinemaWall™ and PlasmaWall™ displays are the world's first to feature Runco's exclusive OPAL (Optical Path Alignment) technology, as well as the... Click for more...
Audyssey Room Correction Going Into New Jaguars -
Audyssey just announced that Jaguar Cars is the first auto manufacturer to introduce a car tuned with the industry defining Audyssey MultEQ XT technology. MultEQ is an innovative acoustical correction technology that enables Jaguar to easily calibrate the sound system... Click for more...
Anthem Offers Two New LCOS Front Video Projectors -
Anthem today announces the availability of two high-performance LCOS front video projectors, its first offerings in the projector category. The LTX 300 and LTX 500 provide the highest standards in color accuracy, image brightness and clarity. "The video playback capabilities... Click for more...
Large LCDs Break Sales Volume Record in June 2009 -
June 2009 shipments of large-area TFT LCD panels reached 46.7 million units, up 8 percent month to month (M/M) and 24 percent/Y, according to the most recent DisplaySearch Monthly TFT LCD Shipment Database. This sets a new record for the... Click for more...
PSB Introduces Completely New Image Series Speakers -
PSB Speakers just introduced a dramatically new edition of its successful Image Series speakers benefiting from top-level technology trickled down from the highly acclaimed Synchrony and Imagine Series. Many of the features that debuted in the flagship Synchrony Series in... Click for more...
Sony New 400-Disc Mega-Changer Blu-ray/DVD Player -
Looking to help consumers simplify and manage their living room entertainment experience, Sony today announced the new BDP-CX960 and the "Elevated Standard" (ES) BDP-CX7000ES 400-disc Blu-ray MegaChangers. The company also announced the BDP-S1000ES single disc ES player expanding Sony's Blu-ray... Click for more...
Onkyo Adds An Affordable Stereo SACD Player and Int-amp To Their Lineup -
Onkyo has added an affordable two-channel SACD player and an integrated amplifier to its premium stereo components line. In keeping with Onkyo's long tradition of offering high performance and value, these components employ precision-crafted audiophile-grade parts, with exceptional engineering and... Click for more...
HomeTheaterReview.com Improves Search Functionality -
HomeTheaterReview.com has rolled out new search functionality on their site that allows for much more specific searches as well as much more refined "basic" searches on the site's 7,000 plus pages. HomeTheaterReview.com reviews home theater equipment such as LCD, LED... Click for more...
Sennheiser Reaching Out To Music Enthusiasts At Live Venues and On Tour -
Sennheiser, known around the world and in virtually every professional sound studio for its reference-standard headphones and microphones, is kicking off a unique new marketing initiative. The Sennheiser Sound Tour commences on July 2, 2009, at Milwaukee Summerfest, the world's... Click for more...
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Krell To Recall Four Amp Products -
Leading audiophile company, Krell, based in Orange, Conecticut, will immediately recall four amlifiers. The amps include the Krell KAV-250a, KAV-250a/3, KAV-500i, KAV-1500 This recall effects units manufactured between January 1997 and February 2001. These amplifiers were designed to operate at... Click for more...
Jamiroquai Live at Montreux Is Coming To Blu-ray -
Eagle Rock Entertainment make another live concert performance available via the Blu-ray format. On August 4, they will release the first ever Jamiroquai Blu-ray, when Live At Montreux 2003 hits stores (MSRP $24.98). In 2003, Jamiroquai brought their signature... Click for more...
Control4 Riased $17.3m To Fund SmartGrid Products -
Control4 just announced that it has secured an additional $17.3 million in equity financing. Best Buy Capital, Mercato Partners and University Venture Fund join current investors Foundation Capital, Frazier Technology Ventures, Thomas Weisel Venture Partners and vSpring Capital, to accelerate... Click for more...
Sony To Add Netflix and ON Networks To BRAVIA Internet Video Platform This Fall -
In the fall of 2009, Netflix members will be able to instantly watch more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes on Sony BRAVIA Internet Video-capable HDTVs and on previous BRAVIA models compatible with Sony's BRAVIA Internet Video Link module. With... Click for more...
Pantel Offers Solutions For Outdoor Video For Up To 65 Inch HDTVs -
Pantel offers gamers an exciting alternative to being indoors all summer. Pantel HDTV's are available in 20 to 65-inch screen sizes, offering a 5 to 6.5ms refresh rate depending on the model. With a protective anti-glare glass screen, Pantel LCD... Click for more...
Yamaha's RX-V1065 AV Receiver Gets New GUI, 4 HDMI Ins All Under $1,000 -
Yamaha just introduced its RX-V1065 7.2-channel AV receiver (105 W x 7; MSRP: $999.95) with better HD audio and video performance and enhanced user experience features for enjoying music, video from virtually any home or portable source component. Highlights of... Click for more...
Texas Instruments DLP® Shows First Technology to Enable Affordable Single-Projector 3D and Lamp-Free Data Projectors -
DLP® Products showed the breadth of its manufacturers' 3D Ready projectors and the first high-brightness lamp-free data projectors, all designed to address the growing needs of classrooms and conference rooms. DLP innovation of 3D display increases interactive learning through immersive... Click for more...
Wisdom Audio Set To Launch "Suitcase" Subwoofer -
Wisdom Audio just announced that it will launch its new Sage Series SCS "suitcase" subwoofer this fall. The uncommon size and aspect ratio of the SCS allows it to be placed in areas where other subwoofers will not fit, offering... Click for more...
Two Big New SANYO Projectors For Home Theater Use -
SANYO, one of the world's largest manufacturers of LCD and DLP projectors launches two new high brightness and high-resolution models - the PDG-DET100L and the PLC-WTC500L - during INFOCOMM, in Orlando, Florida. Both projectors offer features and reduced maintenance for... Click for more...
Pioneer's New Receivers Are iPhone and iPod Friendly -
Pioneer Electronics just announced that it is now shipping A/V Receivers that seamlessly integrate Apple's revolutionary iPhone and iPod into a customer's home theatre. Pioneer's VSX-819AH, VSX-919AH and VSX-1019AH A/V receivers also feature proprietary technologies designed to restore compressed audio... Click for more...
Two New Receivers From Integra: DTR-30.1 and DTR-20.1 -
Integra has introduced two mid-priced audio-video receivers designed to provide state-of-the-art home theater performance plus sophisticated integration with home automation systems. The new Integra DTR-30.1 and DTR-20.1 are, respectively, 7.2- and 5.2-channel, two-zone AV receivers designed for modern high-definition audio... Click for more...
Lutron Sponsors Green Life Smart Life Program -
Green Life Smart Life, a Rhode Island-based green building showcase home, today announced Lutron Electronics as the home's lighting control partner. Lutron, whose products save 9.2 billion kWh annually, will be showcasing its HomeWorks® total home lighting control system in... Click for more...
Robert Altman's M*A*S*H Coming To Blu-ray -
The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is shaken up by the arrival of Captains Hawkeye Pierce and Duke Forrest, amazing surgeons but lousy soldiers, who deal with the daily carnage of the war by raising hell, as M*A*S*H ten-huts onto... Click for more...
Yamaha Introduces New MusicCast2 Multi-room Wireless Music System -
Yamaha recently introduced the MusicCAST2 Network Music System. MusicCAST2 is a WiFi-based system with no unsightly wires that can be set up with ease. The system can distribute audio to up to 32 rooms from a vast array of sources,... Click for more...
ViewSonic Shows New 3-D Projectors -
Video projector company, ViewSonic recently introduced three new 3-D Projectors. Models PJD6211, PJD6221 and PJD6381 target education and business A/V enthusiasts, and include advanced network-management capabilities, multiple inputs and a 120Hz refresh rate. Model PJD6381 is an ultra-short-throw model with... Click for more...
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Marantz Will Offer Coffee Table Book and SACD Disc To Promote New Audiophile Pearl Products -
Marantz America just announced that it is supporting the launch of its highly anticipated KI Pearl Hi-Fi components with an elegant hardcover coffee-table book (MSRP: $29.99) and specially created dual-layer SACD (MSRP: $49.99) which celebrate the 30th anniversary of its... Click for more...
Denon To Add VRS From Anchor Bay To Their Blu-ray Players and AV receivers For 1080p Scaling -
Anchor Bay announced today that Denon Electronics has chosen to incorporate Anchor Bay video processing chips, with the latest proprietary Video Reference Series (VRS) technologies including Precision Video Deinterlacing and Precision Video Scaling, across their newly introduced product line. Seven... Click for more...
New Paradigm In-walls Match Today's Flat HDTVs -
Ultra-slim flat-panel television displays finally have met their sonic and aesthetic match, as Paradigm Electronics announces its first-ever partly-in-wall/partly-out-of-the-wall speaker designs. The new Reference Hybrid Millenia 10 and 20 integrate reference-quality build materials into a form factor that protrudes less... Click for more...
dnp Supernova Panorama Breaks Record For Largest Seamless Screen -
dnp recently introduced the Supernova Panorama Screen for large format video applications. Based on dnp's award-winning optical screen technology, this new product features high contrast filters that absorb ambient light and provide clear, sharp images - even in brightly-lit surroundings.... Click for more...
Audyssey Labs' New Stand-alone Sub EQ -
Audyssey just announced the new Audyssey Sub Equalizer, the latest in a series of professional room calibration tools in the company's product lineup. The Sub Equalizer uses the award-winning MultEQ XT Technology to correct the most difficult problem in home... Click for more...
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Partners with Gracenote To Deliver First Live, In-Movie Film Information with movieIQ -
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment today announced the launch of movieIQ, a new Blu-ray Disc feature powered by Gracenote® that offers viewers access to a real-time movie database. With a movieIQ-enabled Blu-ray Disc and an internet-connected Blu-ray™ player, movie fans can... Click for more...
Meridian Offers Summer Trade-up Promotion -
Meridian Audio has announced that it is offering owners of its CD players and Surround Sound Controllers a unique opportunity to trade-up to a higher level of performance this summer. The "Excellence to Perfection Program" will run from June 15th... Click for more...
Casio Jumps Into The Home Theater Market with XK-S43W Projector -
Casio America, Inc. announced today the release of a new Super Slim projector model featuring WXGA (1280 x 800) native resolution, bringing widescreen presentations to your business or classroom. The XJ-S43W model is part of Casio's Super Slim family featuring... Click for more...
Paradigm Cinema 90 CT System To Be Featured on CBS' The Price Is Right -
Paradigm Electronics Inc., an international leader in speaker design and manufacturing will enter a new realm of popular culture when its Cinema 90 CT (Compact Theater) 5.1 surround audio system will be featured on CBS's The Price is Right in... Click for more...
Two New Denon Network iPod Docks -
Denon Electronics just introduced two new Network-Enabled iPod Docks, models ASD-51W and ASD-51N, both with Apple® iPod command and control, as well as a host of new capabilities and features. Both the ASD-51W (SRP: $299.99) and ASD-51N (SRP: $249.99) are... Click for more...
NAD Introduces M2 Direct Digital Amplifier -
NAD Electronics just introduced the Masters Series M2 Direct Digital Amplifier, delivering in the culmination of a decade long research project a new level of amplifier performance. Very powerful, dynamic, efficient, and musically revealing, the M2 is a true digital... Click for more...
Goldmund Offers Limited Edition "5000 Watt" Telos Power Amps -
Goldmund recently announced the Telos 5000 power amplifiers for consumption by their very well heeled clients and audio collectors. The Goldmund Telos mono amps will be limited to 20 pairs for worldwide consumption. The Goldmund Telos 5000 power amps reportedly... Click for more...
New Boston Acoustic In-Ceiling Speakers Rain-Down Great Sound -
Boston Acoustics just introduced three new in-ceiling loudspeakers, including the 3½ " Models HSi 430 and HSi 435 (MAP: $250) as well as the matching 6" subwoofer, Model HSi S6W2 (MAP: $500). All three are sized to match and resemble... Click for more...
JVC's New 42 inch LCD HDTV Targets Digital SLR Camera Users -
Establishing a new category in flat panel TV design, JVC just announced the availability of a super slim LCD TV monitor that features a color space that is wider than a typical HDTV's. The new JVC Xiview LT-42WX70 is a... Click for more...
SANYO's Two New Under-$1,000, Eco-Friendly Projectors -
SANYO, one of the world's largest manufacturers of LCD and DLP projectors launches two ultra portable projectors - the PLC-XW250 and the PLC-XW200 - that offer educators outstanding cost performance with an eco stand-by power mode that uses a mere... Click for more...
Home Theater News
MartinLogan Introduces $499 Advanced Thin Film Center Channel Speaker -
MartinLogan just announced the new $499 Encore TF center channel speaker for use either on- or off-wall. Designed to serve as a high performance center channel for home theaters, the compact Encore TF delivers exceptional detail. An ATF˙ (Advanced Thin... Click for more...
Best Buy Plans Thirteen New Stores As Other Retailers Fail -
Best Buy just announced plans to open 13 new U.S. Best Buy stores in the second fiscal quarter 2010, including its first store in Wyoming and second in Alaska. The new stores are set to open this summer in the... Click for more...
HD Giants Files Chapter 11 -
HD Giants, the company founded to sell high definition music to the burgeoning Media Center PC market, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company known for its Airstream trailer demo and its often 96 kHz 24 bit resolution tracks... Click for more...
Electrocompaniet's New High End Internet and HD Radio Tuner With Balanced Outputs -
Electrocompaniet recently introduced their new ECR 1 Tuner. This model has been developed to extend the Electrocompaniet product range with a long awaited FM/RDS/HD/Internet radio for audiophile and home theater applications. A fully fledged 192kHz/24bit DAC section including sample rate... Click for more...
Ayre Acoustics First To License Wavelength Audio's USB DAC Technology -
High end audio brand, Ayre Acoustics is the first licensee of Wavelength Audio's new "asynchronous" USB technology called Streamlength software. USB Technology is needed to connect Apple iPods, iPhones and other computer based sources with more traditional audiophile products. With... Click for more...
Hitachi Splits Off Consumer Group From Parent Company -
HDTV giant, Hitachi, announced today that they would split their consumer electronics divisions from the parent company. The company will be run by Shutoku Watanabe as president. Watanabe was Hitachi's CEO and president. The company said in a written report... Click for more...
Denon's Three New High Performance Earbud Headphones -
Denon Electronics just introduced three stylish and high-performance "earbud" in-ear headphone models, bringing the total number of headphones in the company's line to 15. The new additions include the company's first in-ear noise-cancelling headphones, Model AH-NC600 (SRP: $199), scheduled for... Click for more...
Russound's New iPhone Home Theater Control -
Russound just announced its first control solution designed to work with Apple's popular iPhone and iPod touch products. The new RNET Touchpoint user interface allows end users to control zones and source components in a Russound multiroom installation wirelessly, from... Click for more...
Cary Audio Design Announces $1,500 Xciter DAC -
After a year of development, Cary Audio Design, with collaboration from AKM and National Semiconductor, just announced the release of the Xciter DAC. The Xciter DAC is a state-of-the-art 32-bit digital-to-analog converter with inputs to connect four digital sources to... Click for more...
Cabasse Debuts Altura MC Series of Floorstanding Speakers -
Loudspeaker maker Cabasse recently announced Altura MC line of floorstanding loudspeakers to the North American market. To date the line up includes the new Iroise 3 and Egea 3 with two more towers to be announced shortly. Retail price for... Click for more...
NuVo Technologies' Slick New Wireless Control Pad -
NuVo Technologies just announced that its eagerly anticipated Wireless Control Pad is now fully shipping. The Wireless Control Pad is a new option for user control of NuVo's Grand Concerto and Essentia E6G multi-room audio systems, as well as the... Click for more...
Global TV Revenues Decline 12 Percent in Q1-2009 -
With a lingering global recession continuing to place pressure on discretionary spending, global TV shipments declined 6% Y/Y in Q1'09 to 43.3M units according to the latest Quarterly Global TV Shipment and Forecast Report from DisplaySearch. This was a decline... Click for more...
Marantz Releases New Audiophile Grade High-end SACD Player and Integrated Amp -
Marantz America is celebrating 30 years of visionary guidance from its legendary audio designer Ken Ishiwata, with the unveiling of two audiophile components, the KI Pearls. The new KI Pearl units, including the SA-KI Pearl SACD Player ($2,999) and the... Click for more...
Niveus Media Offers Aggressive Trade-Up Program -
Niveus Media just introduced a 'Trade-In Trade-Up' program that allows existing Niveus Media Server owners to trade-in any Niveus Media Server to redeem a credit towards the purchase of a new, 2009 Niveus Media Server. This exclusive offer provides Niveus... Click for more...
Denon's New Line of Affordble HDMI Receivers -
Denon Electronics just introduced its line of advanced audio/video receivers with nine new offerings for 2009/2010, including three that feature industry-leading networking and Web access capabilities. New Denon receivers include the following, with expected availability dates in parenthesis: AVR-4310CI (SRP:... Click for more...
Home Theater News
Wilson Audio Releases Sasha W/P on May 15 -
Dave Wilson conceived and built the first WATT loudspeaker in 1985. He needed an accurate and portable location monitor for the series of audiophile recordings he was making during this time. In a way, Dave began the project out of... Click for more...
Samsung Introduces 1.1 Inch Think Energy Efficient 50-inch Plasma -
Samsung has reportedly made a CES promise a reality with their ultra-thin 50 inch 8-Series plasma set. Amazingly, the 50 inch set is a mere 1.1 inch thick which is easily half of the current standard for flat HDTVs -... Click for more...
Rotel's New 15 Series Audiophile Two-Channel Components -
Rotel recently introduced a number of new two channel components: Integrated amp, CD Player, stereo and power preamplifiers that are designed for the value conscious consumer with a taste for truly refined sound. Stereo Integrated Amplifier The RA-1520 is a... Click for more...
OmniMount Introduces New Affordable Viking Series AV Equipment Racks -
AV equipment rack and mount company, OmniMount, now has a complete line of customizable A/V rack solutions in its growing product portfolio. OmniMount's newly expanded Viking Series features the award-winning RSF Floor Rack System, the popular RSF.5 Floor Half-Rack System... Click for more...
Dynaudio To Distribute Octave Audio Electronics in the United States and Canada -
Dynaudio North America recently announced that it has been appointed as the distributor for Octave Audio for the USA and Canada. Octave Audio, based in Karslbad-Ittersbach Germany, has been producing high-end tube electronics for over 20 years. Octave was actually... Click for more...
PurePower Introduces 2000 Watt AC Regenerator For High End AV Systems -
Audiophile grade AC power company, PurePower just started shipping its most powerful regenerator, the Model 2000. The Model 2000 (MSRP $2,995) outputs over 2000 Watts of perfect, isolated, battery reference power. Model 2000 has 10 receptacles, the 1050 ($2,495) and... Click for more...
Audiophile Download Firm In Germany Raises $3.3m -
Soundcloud, according to TheStandard.com, has raised an additional $3,300,000 (USD) in funding to expand its audiophile download service. Soundcloud is a web based service that is targeted to music professionals, record producers and music enthusiasts specifically for those who don't... Click for more...
R.E.M To Release Reckoning and Murmur On 180 Gram Vinyl -
In a recent trend that shows a small volume (but large percentage) uptick in sales for vinyl - the original "emo band" R.E.M. is set to release its critically acclaimed album Reckoning and Murmur. The releases will be on audiophile... Click for more...
NuVision To Release New Line of LCD HDTVs With Lucidium FX5 Series -
NuVision is expanding its product line with the release of the all-new Lucidium FX5 Series. The Lucidium FX5 Series combines proprietary Film Times Five (FX5) and Frame Forward Motion (FFM) technologies to create a true 120Hz picture. The 42 inch... Click for more...
HDtracks To Release a 96kHz/24bit download of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand Album -
HDtracks recently announced its exclusive release of an audiophile-quality, DRM-free 96kHz/24 bit FLAC remaster of Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant and bluegrass and country icon Allison Krauss' Raising Sand album. Raising Sand won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the... Click for more...
Air Force One and Glory Coming To Blu-ray on June 2, 2009 with BD-Live -
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment re-lives two heart-pounding tales of American heroism and bravery with Oscar-nominated Air Force One (Best Editing and Best Sound, 1998) and Oscar-winner Glory (Best Cinematography and Best Sound, 1989) arriving on high definition Blu-ray™ June 2,... Click for more