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The History of Bowers & Wilkins
There are companies that build loudspeakers, and there are companies that, over the years, end up influencing the very way they are conceived. The history of Bowers & Wilkins undoubtedly belongs to the latter category. It is not merely the story of a British brand born in a small provincial shop, but the tale of […] More
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The History of Marantz, from Saul Marantz to Harman
Marantz is a fundamental part of the history of Hi-Fi audio. Its origins date back to the early 1950s in the United States, when Saul Marantz—a music lover, record collector, and self-taught designer—began creating equipment designed to meet the needs of the most discerning audiophiles. And here it’s worth telling a story within the story—that […] More
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Denon, a long history of excellence
Few companies in the professional and consumer audio landscape can boast a history as rich and layered as that of Denon. Japan, early 1900s: it was a time when sound reproduction was still a young technology in full effervescence. 1910, Nippon Chikuonki Shokai (in Italian it could be translated as “Japanese Phonograph Society”) – began […] More
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The history of Luxman
Luxman was founded in 1925, and its history is one of the most fascinating and long-lived in the entire panorama of global high fidelity. Few brands, in fact, can boast such profound historical continuity, traversing nearly a century of technological evolution without ever losing a precise sonic and philosophical identity.To speak of Luxman is, in […] More
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The story of Nelson Pass
Nelson Pass was born on June 27, 1951, in Massachusetts and grew up in Santa Rosa, California. As a boy he was already fascinated by electronics and music, two worlds he would never stop holding together. He chose to study physics at the University of California at Davis-a choice seemingly distant from audio, but one […] More
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The story of KLH and Henry Kloss.
The history of KLH is closely intertwined with that of Henry Kloss, one of the most influential and least celebrated, yet fundamental figures in twentieth-century audio. To speak of KLH is to speak of a precise idea of high fidelity: not luxury for its own sake, but the desire to bring correct, scientifically grounded, and […] More
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Accuphase, the story of Japanese excellence
The story of Accuphase began in 1972, when Jiro and Nakaichi Kasuga left Trio-Kenwood, later to become Kenwood, to found a small company dedicated to building products with a level of quality that, at the time, very few brands in the world could afford. They initially called it Kensonic, and in fact you can still […] More
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The story of Martin Logan
The story of Martin Logan is inextricably linked to technical research and the desire to overcome perceived limitations in home sound reproduction, but it is also a story that, over time, has become intertwined with larger realities until it merged into the Canadian group PML, to which Paradigm and Anthem also belong. It all began […] More
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Yamaha, a history almost 140 years long
The history of Yamaha began in 1887, Japan, when Torakusu Yamaha, a young medical instrument craftsman with a great passion for music, was called to repair a Western pipe organ at a school in Hamamatsu. Fascinated by the complex mechanism and sound of that instrument, he decided to build one with his own hands. After […] More
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The story of Arcam
Founded in 1976, A&R Cambridge Ltd was born out of the passion and ingenuity of John Dawson, then an engineering student at Cambridge University and an ardent music lover. An active member of the university’s Tape Recording Society, Dawson began building solid-state amplifiers for himself and fellow students, soon becoming so successful that the following […] More
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