Aerial Acoustics Aerial Acoustics manufacturer of high performance, high value loudspeaker systems designed for music listening and home theatre systems.   Audio Research Audio Research is one of the oldest continually operating manufacturers in American audio. The company was founded in 1970 in Minneapolis with one goal in mind: to advance the state-of-the-art in music reproduction. Today, Audio Research remains a performance-oriented company by philosophy and design. New product introductions are driven only by genuine advances in technology and performance -- the HIGH DEFINITION that is the hallmark of the company's products. The company has grown steadily over the last quarter-century, with a network of top audio specialist retailers across North America and country-by-country distributors throughout Europe, Asia and South America. The company occupies a 48,000 square-foot, technically-advanced production plant and administrative headquarters in Plymouth, Minnesota, where approximately 50 technical, assembly and support staff guide the product line from concept to finished goods. A research-only facility has also been established in Palm Desert, California.   Esoteric Technological Fusion and the Goal of Esoteric Engineering: Simply stated: the result of fusing the best in design, technology, engineering, materials and manufacturing. As an early innovator in magnetic tape recording and data storage, the TEAC Corporation was founded in Japan in 1953. As a 24 year old member of the TEAC group, ESOTERIC Company's design, engineering and manufacturing improves upon the "state of the art," providing our customers a higher level of audio and video excellence! Our goal is simple, to provide new technology in audio video categories where we know our engineering can improve the end-users listening and/or viewing experience. If we cannot achieve that goal for the category and price points that we target, we will not build the product.     Furutech Furutech, founded in 1988, designs and manufactures an extraordinary range of A/V cables made with extremely high purity OCC single-crystal oxygen-free copper. We have several complete lines of analogue and digital, power and coaxial cables available in terminated and bulk quantities. We make a wide range of highest quality OEM A/V connectors and other signal transfer parts including power, speaker, IEC and specialized Hyper Audio Quality outlet receptacles. All metal components all treated with Furutech’s proprietary 2-Stage Alpha Cryogenic and Ring Demagnetization Process during manufacture that ensures the lowest achievable levels of distortion and noise.   Marantz For more than half a century, the name Marantz has identified the best in home entertainment. And today, even in the midst of burgeoning and often confusing technology, these components still emulate the vision that originally drove Saul Marantz to expand the sensory horizons of even the most demanding aficionados.     Joseph Audio Unlock the true potential of your music library with the higher fidelity of Joseph Audio speakers. Our award-winning designs feature exclusive technology and effortless musicality to captivate the avid music lover. Joseph Audio loudspeakers are very well made in the USA.   Ortofon Ortofon was founded in 1918 by two Danish engineers, Axel Petersen and Arnold Poulsen. These two pioneers had one very clear objective in mind - to put sound onto film, and with this, they established the Electrical Fonofilms Company A/S, which later on was renamed Ortofon A/S. A few years later, in the Palace Theatre, Copenhagen, they were able to present the first fully-synchronized sound films and in so doing, created a world sensation.   Rega Manufacturer's of high performance turntables and other audio equipment from the U.K.   REL REL Acoustics Ltd of Great Britain designs and manufactures high quality, award-winning sub-bass systems for use in two-channel and multi-channel music and multi-channel home theatre systems.   Sonus Faber Music reproduction as a special auditory occasion. Offering the emotional excitement of a pure musical event to every listening experience through reproduction instruments that let the entire expressive power of music envelop the ear. These are the aims with which we Sonus faber build our loudspeakers. Our projects draw inspiration from the construction criteria of the lute-maker's craft, as we are convinced that the quality characteristics of sound in a loudspeaker depend above all on the acoustic chamber - on its form and the materials it is made of - just like any other musical instrument.   Stones Sound Studio Ribbon Speaker Kit design plans drawings PCB crossovers cable components Custom high-end speaker cabinet passive crossovers, active filter and speaker driver measurement and design facilities using Leap 5 and LMS4. Stones Sound Studio manufactures the Artisan Audio Art series of high-end speakers. Russell Storey is Stones senior speaker design engineer audio and acoustic consultant. Stones supply high-end amplifiers audio products and accessories including Audio art furniture by Alan Briscoe woodcraft designs. Nakamichi Service Peerless Scan speak Fountek Ribbon Tweeter Focal Seas SB Acoustics speakers Acoustic measurements & driver parameters.   Velodyne Velodyne Acoustics, Inc., founded in 1983, is universally recognized as the leading manufacturer of high-performance, low distortion powered subwoofers at all price levels. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California.   VTL Today VTL is a second generation family business still run by one of the original co-founders, who is as comfortable in the concert hall as he is at the test bench. When it became obvious to both Luke and David that the company needed a full-function manufacturing facility, they decided to relocate production to Southern California, to take advantage of the readily available supply of electronics and manufacturing vendors and the labour force that were servicing the defence electronics industry in the Los Angeles basin. In 1987 the factory was moved to its present location in Chino, CA -- where all VTL products are made for worldwide consumption, and the same location that VTL occupies now. In 1989 the Manley line of products was started under the VTL banner, as a line of professional products for studio use, initially as a secondary business division of the company. These modern manufacturing practices will assure you that every piece of VTL product is manufactured with consistently high quality and will reliably work in your system for many years. We spend time with our customers, working to make music and home theatre the satisfying personal experiences they are intended to be. With our experience and commitment to high quality in all that we do we specialize in offering you a full range of limited production, hand-built high quality pure tube amplifiers and preamplifiers for your home.   Wadia Digital Wadia Digital, founded in 1988, is one of the original companies dedicated to high performance digital audio reproduction. Wadia was formed by a team of engineers from the Minneapolis based 3M Corporation (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) who shared many years of experience in advanced digital telecommunications research and development. In the early 1980's, these engineers became intrigued by the emerging compact disc technology. Disappointed with the sound quality of early CD players, they examined the workings and designs of these early components and found them to be unsophisticated when compared with the technology available in other areas of digital design. In response, they founded Wadia Digital - a company based on the philosophy of applying advanced technology to improve the performance of digital audio components. Wadia's first product, the Wadia 2000 Decoding Computer, was an absolute breakthrough in digital audio. For many discerning listeners, it proved that Digital Audio was a musically responsive, evolving, and engaging format. Building on a tradition of excellence, Wadia continues to develop innovative technology; refining, listening, engineering, and improving along the way. Since the Wadia 2000, new generations of industry-leading designs have been introduced and embraced by listeners around the world. Each step of the way, Wadia has consistently raised the standard for performance of Digital Audio playback.