Amplifiers
Accuphase
Accuphase makes high-end audio electronics in Yokohama. Its power amplifiers appear here in a multiroom listening venue.
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Manufacturers, component suppliers and designers behind the systems in our listening rooms.
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Design & installation / Isolation & acoustics
Acústica & Sônica
Acústica & Sônica is a São Paulo acoustic consultancy. Its work here concerns the integration of sound and room acoustics.
Custom systems / Speakers
Admire Audio
Admire Audio builds high-efficiency loudspeakers in Paterna, near Valencia. Its workshop develops the cabinets, horns and driver alignment together, drawing on classic cinema sound.
Mixers
Alpha Recording System (ARS)
Alpha Recording System makes specialist rotary mixers in Japan. Its ARS models provide control and mixing for vinyl-centred listening systems.
Mixers / Digital players & DACs
AlphaTheta / Pioneer DJ
AlphaTheta makes DJ equipment under the AlphaTheta and Pioneer DJ brands. Digital players, mixers and rotary designs from these ranges appear throughout the directory.
Speakers
Altec Lansing (vintage Voice of the Theatre / Altec)
Vintage Altec loudspeakers bring cinema-scale horns into intimate listening rooms. The A5, A7, Valencia and Model 15 belong to the historic professional range, distinct from today’s consumer products carrying the Altec Lansing name.
Accessories / Cables / Components
Analog Relax
Analog Relax supplies analogue-playback accessories. Its cartridge lead wires form part of a modified turntable in the directory.
Speakers
Apart Audio
Apart Audio makes equipment for installed sound. Its compact speakers and installation amplifiers can cover secondary areas around a larger listening system.
Amplifiers
Aries Cerat
Aries Cerat develops valve-based audio equipment in Cyprus. Its amplification is represented in a dedicated private listening room.
Design & installation / Isolation & acoustics
Arup
Arup is an engineering and design consultancy with an acoustics practice. Its contribution to the directory is room design rather than equipment manufacture.
Amplifiers
Atelier du Triode
Atelier du Triode is credited with specialist valve amplification for Spiritland. The installation uses 300B-based electronics to drive its bespoke horn system.
Design & installation / Isolation & acoustics
Audio Grail
Audio Grail specialises in restoring Garrard turntables. Its work returns vintage mechanisms to service within systems assembled from several independent makers.
Amplifiers / Components / Speakers / Turntables / Cartridges
Audio Note (UK)
Audio Note (UK) makes valve electronics and hi-fi components. Its amplifiers and preamplifiers were part of an early Los Angeles listening-bar installation.
Cartridges / Components
Audio-Technica
Audio-Technica makes cartridges and other audio equipment in Japan. Its moving-magnet and moving-coil cartridges are used with a wide variety of turntables in the featured rooms.
Accessories / Cables / Components
Auditorium 23
Auditorium 23 makes cables and analogue accessories in Germany. Its products connect and support components in a system built around vintage horns and a restored record deck.
Amplifiers
Ayre
Ayre makes audio electronics. An amplifier at Hedge Coffee has been tentatively identified from a visible logo; the model remains unconfirmed.
Speakers / Subwoofers
Bag End
Bag End makes loudspeakers and subwoofer systems. Its IPD12 subwoofers form part of Macanudo’s listening system in Cali.
Signal processing
BDS
BDS is the name attached to the PP-131 spectrum analyser at Equipment Room. Further manufacturer information has not been established.
Signal processing
Benchmark Media Systems
Benchmark Media Systems makes audio converters and electronics in the US. Its DAC3 HGC appears in a system combining digital conversion with specialist analogue equipment.
Headphones
Beyerdynamic
Beyerdynamic makes headphones and professional audio equipment in Germany. Its headphones are represented in a venue’s individual listening setup.
Amplifiers
BGW Systems (historic)
BGW is represented by historic professional power amplifiers. These older units continue to appear in systems combining vintage electronics with contemporary installation work.
Components / Custom systems
Bill Hanuschak
Bill Hanuschak is credited as an Altec-driver specialist. His contribution to the directory is component manufacture for an OJAS system.
Custom audio systems
Bing Audio
Bing Audio designs and builds custom sound systems. Its work at Tigris in Detroit forms part of a listening room developed with acoustic consultant Collin Dupuis.
Speakers
Bose
Bose’s contribution to this directory includes the vintage 901 loudspeaker. These older designs appear in rooms that assemble their systems from several generations of hi-fi.
Mixers
Bozak
Bozak is represented here by rotary DJ mixers. The name is closely associated with classic analogue mixing equipment used in record-led venues.
Amplifiers
British Analogue
British Analogue is credited as an amplification supplier at Ōdiobā. The individual amplifier models have not been identified in the available venue information.
Amplifiers
Bryston
Bryston makes audio electronics. Eavesdrop uses a 7B SST amplifier in its installed system.
Signal processing
BSS Audio (Harman)
BSS Audio makes professional signal-processing equipment. It is represented here in a larger venue sound system.
Signal processing
Cambridge Audio
Cambridge Audio makes hi-fi electronics in Britain. Its equipment appears as part of a venue’s changing headphone playback chain.
Accessories / Cables / Components
Canare
Canare makes audio and video cabling in Japan. Its cables are represented both in a studio-monitor installation and in a restored vintage-speaker system.
Design & installation / Isolation & acoustics
Cantiera / Canitiera Studio
Cantiera / Canitiera Studio is credited with the room design at El Willy Hi-Fi. The available record uses both spellings and describes an interior organised around listening.
Amplifiers
Cary Audio
Cary Audio makes audio electronics with a strong association with valve amplification. Vintage examples feature in the directory’s vinyl-focused systems.
Custom systems / Speakers
Cathode Bias / Café Sound
Cathode Bias and Café Sound are credited with bespoke lounge loudspeakers at Shibuya Hi-Fi. The design combines multicell horns with large bass drivers.
Custom mixers
CDS
CDS is credited with the specially commissioned mixer at BAR JAZZ in Osaka, where Keiji Maki selects records track by track.
Turntables
Clearaudio
Clearaudio makes analogue playback equipment in Erlangen, Germany, including turntables and associated components.
Acoustic treatment
CNTRL Acoustics
CNTRL Acoustics designed the acoustic treatment and audio furniture at Chapelle XIV, home to Yoyaku’s Paris record shop.
Design & installation / Isolation & acoustics
Commune Design
Commune Design is an interior design studio. Its contribution to a featured venue is the room surrounding the sound system.
Mixers
Condesa Electronics
Condesa Electronics makes rotary mixers in Australia. Its Carmen designs are used to connect record decks and amplification in several of the featured rooms.
Amplifiers
Crown Audio (Harman)
Crown Audio makes professional power amplifiers. Older Macro-Tech equipment appears here as part of a larger installed sound system.
Speakers
Danley Sound Labs
Danley Sound Labs develops professional loudspeakers and subwoofers, including its Synergy Horn designs. Its cabinets also find a home in smaller venues built around close listening.
Speakers
DAS Audio
DAS Audio makes professional loudspeakers and subwoofers in Spain. Its equipment is represented here in a live-performance system.
Speakers
David Haigner
David Haigner designs loudspeakers and works in acoustics. His custom loudspeakers form part of Shh.’s vinyl system in Vienna.
Speakers
DeVore Fidelity
DeVore Fidelity is a Brooklyn loudspeaker manufacturer. Its Orangutan range appears in listening rooms that pair sensitive speakers with valve amplification.
Amplifiers
Douk Audio
Douk Audio supplies compact audio electronics, including headphone amplifiers. Its products can support individual listening positions within a venue.
Amplifiers
Dynaco / Dynakit
The Dynaco and Dynakit names are associated with classic vacuum-tube amplifier designs, including the Mark III monoblock. Current Dynakit Parts supplies replacement components and kits based on those designs.
Speakers
Dynaudio
Dynaudio is a Danish loudspeaker manufacturer with products for home and professional listening. Compact models can complement a venue’s main system by covering other parts of the room.
Dynavector
Dynavector electronics and tonearms appear in Far Cry’s announced opening equipment selection.
Mixers
E&S
E&S makes rotary DJ mixers. Cornerstore’s co-owner identified a DJR400 in the Amsterdam venue’s September 2021 setup.
Amplifiers
EAR Yoshino
EAR Yoshino is the valve-electronics company associated with designer Tim de Paravicini. Its amplifiers and preamplifiers have been used in curated listening programmes.
Mixers
Ecler
Ecler makes audio equipment in Spain. Its WARM2 rotary mixer is represented in the directory’s DJ systems.
Speakers
EgglestonWorks
EgglestonWorks is a Memphis loudspeaker company. Its work with public listening spaces includes the purpose-designed SoundRoom at Memphis Listening Lab.
Electro-Voice
Electro-Voice’s vintage Georgian 400 loudspeakers appear in the equipment selection announced for Far Cry.
Amplifiers / Components
Elekit
Elekit supplies audio kits for assembly by enthusiasts and independent builders. A venue owner can build and modify its amplifier kits while remaining distinct from the original kit manufacturer.
Turntables
EMT
EMT is associated with broadcast turntables and analogue playback equipment. Vintage 930-series decks appear in venue lists and in some tentative visual identifications.
Custom systems / Speakers
Éric Buy
Éric Buy is credited as a specialist subwoofer builder. His contribution here is a custom bass system used alongside another maker’s horn loudspeakers.
Components / Speakers
Faital / FaitalPRO
FaitalPRO supplies professional loudspeaker drivers. These components can be integrated into systems designed and assembled by other makers.
Amplifiers
FFA
FFA is named in Hidden Grooves’ bass-amplification chain. The available equipment record does not identify the amplifier model.
Components / Speakers
Fostex
Fostex makes loudspeaker drivers and audio equipment in Japan. Its high-frequency units can extend the top end of systems built around larger vintage horns.
Custom systems / Speakers
Friendly Pressure
Friendly Pressure is a London loudspeaker studio creating systems for particular rooms. Its projects bring speaker engineering into close collaboration with furniture and interior design.
Sound systems
Funktion-One
Funktion-One supplies sound systems for music venues. Angel Music Bar in Melbourne uses a Funktion-One installation in its upstairs club room.
Turntables
Garrard
Garrard’s 301 and 401 idler-drive turntables often return to service through specialist restoration. New plinths, tonearms and cartridges can form part of those rebuilt installations.
Speakers
Genelec
Genelec makes active studio monitors in Finland. Their built-in amplification allows a venue to use a monitoring approach familiar from recording and production rooms.
Custom systems
Giorgio Di Salvo
Giorgio Di Salvo is credited with the custom sound design at Oblicuo Hi-Fi. His contribution spans the main horn loudspeakers and the supporting equipment that serves the room.
Design & installation / Isolation & acoustics
Global AV Group (Jason Ojeda)
Global AV Group is an audio-visual integration business associated with Jason Ojeda. It works with specialist designers to bring larger venue systems together.
Custom audio systems
GNK Audio
GNK Audio builds custom audio systems. Its installation at SUONO in Liverpool accompanies a programme of album listening and DJ sessions.
Cartridges / Components
Goldring
Goldring makes phono cartridges. Its E3 is represented in a venue’s vinyl playback chain.
Components / Speakers
GR-Research
GR-Research develops speaker kits, proprietary drivers and crossover components in Texas. It also offers loudspeaker design and upgrade services for independent builders.
Headphones
Grado Labs
Grado Labs makes headphones and cartridges in Brooklyn. Its open-back headphones appear at private listening stations within a larger venue.
Speakers
Graham Audio
Graham Audio builds BBC-licensed monitor designs in Britain. Its studio-derived loudspeakers have also been used for public listening programmes.
Custom systems
H.A.N.D. HiFi
H.A.N.D. HiFi creates bespoke systems intended to suit the spaces around them. The Berlin workshop’s name stands for Have A Nice Day, and its work includes custom horn installations.
Speakers
Harbeth
Harbeth is a British loudspeaker manufacturer whose monitor designs draw on BBC research. Its range includes the Super HL5 and Compact 7 families. Kissa Kissa in Brooklyn lists Super HL5+ XD and Compact 7ES-3 speakers in its listening system.
Custom systems / Speakers
Hark Audio
HARK brings together loudspeaker building, record culture and equipment repair in Paris. Its speakers are handcrafted in-house.
Amplifiers
Harman Kardon
Harman Kardon’s vintage receivers are represented in the directory. These integrated radio and amplifier units sit alongside separate electronics in mixed-era systems.
Custom loudspeakers
Haruo Nomura
Haruo Nomura builds handmade loudspeakers. His main pair at QUATTRO LABO in Tokyo is partnered with McIntosh amplification.
Custom systems
Hatchett
Toby Hatchett designs and builds custom sound systems. His Dublin work includes semi-active four-way monitors at Fidelity and The Big Romance, with bespoke furniture and treatment also credited at the latter.
Digital playback
HiFi Rose
HiFi Rose makes digital playback equipment. Its RS250A network streamer sits alongside analogue sources in the system at Small Hours in Minneapolis.
Design & installation / Isolation & acoustics
House Under Magic
House Under Magic is Danny Taylor’s design studio. Its work at Eavesdrop treats the sound system, acoustics, furniture and room as connected parts of one project.
Amplifiers / Components
Hypex
Hypex makes amplification products. Its equipment is credited in the semi-active system at The Big Romance, although individual models are not named.
Custom systems / Speakers
IFAUDIO
Argentine studio IFAUDIO designs hi-fi systems around the architecture and identity of each space. Its work combines custom loudspeakers, its own designs and selected existing equipment.
Isolation & acoustics / Mixers
Isonoe
Isonoe makes isolation products, rotary mixers and specialist audio electronics in London. Its work ranges from turntable modifications to custom mixing systems.
Speakers
JBL / JBL Professional (Harman)
JBL’s range spans vintage studio monitors, home loudspeakers and professional sound reinforcement. The directory includes classic large monitors as well as compact and modern models.
JJ Electronic
JJ Electronic supplies valve amplification, including the 323 amplifier and 243 preamplifier used at Decibel.
Custom systems
Kantarion Sound & Research
Kantarion Sound & Research is Ivan Čuić’s Amsterdam sound-system workshop. Its work includes custom multiway installations for music-focused spaces.
Speakers
KEF
KEF develops loudspeakers using its Uni-Q coincident-driver technology. Its catalogue extends from compact listening systems to architectural products and the large MUON design.
Custom systems / Speakers
KIKUNO
Yuji Tsutsumida’s KIKUNO builds handcrafted loudspeakers. At Café Wu, its Orbiter design uses reflectors above and below a two-way floating cabinet, finished in Yeddo Hawthorn.
Speakers
Klipsch
Klipsch is closely associated with horn loudspeakers. Klipschorn, La Scala, Cornwall and Heresy models appear across the directory in both vintage and contemporary installations.
Speakers
KOON
KOON is named in Spincoaster’s Shinjuku equipment information alongside a 400NT loudspeaker. Its identity and relationship to that equipment need further confirmation.
Turntables
Kuzma
Kuzma makes turntables and tonearms in Slovenia. Its larger decks are used for dedicated album listening as well as domestic hi-fi.
Speakers
L-Acoustics
L-Acoustics makes professional sound systems for performance spaces. Its presence here is in concert-room reinforcement rather than a venue’s separate domestic hi-fi system.
Custom systems
La Casa de los Altavoces
La Casa de los Altavoces plans and installs audio systems in Madrid, with work spanning hospitality, cultural spaces and homes. Its Los 33 project combines JBL monitors with restored electronics.
Amplifiers
LEA Professional
LEA Professional makes network-connected amplifiers for installed sound. Macanudo uses its Connect 702 and Connect 354 models.
Amplifiers
Leak
Leak is a British hi-fi name represented here by the Stereo 130. Its compact electronics can anchor a private headphone listening station.
Amplification
Leben
Leben makes audio amplification equipment. Its RS30EQ phono stage forms part of Gold’s main vinyl-playing system in Ghent.
Design & installation / Isolation & acoustics
Lewis Kemmenoe
Lewis Kemmenoe is a furniture designer and maker. His contribution to the directory is cabinetry made in collaboration with a loudspeaker studio.
Amplifiers / Speakers
Line Magnetic Audio
Line Magnetic makes valve electronics and loudspeakers influenced by classic cinema equipment. Its products range from integrated amplifiers to large horn-based designs.
Amplifiers
Linea Research
Linea Research develops professional amplification and signal-processing equipment. Its amplification is listed with Hatchett’s custom system at Fidelity.
Turntables and tonearms
Linn
Linn makes record-playing equipment, including the Sondek LP12 turntable and Ittok LV2 tonearm used in Gold’s main system in Ghent.
Speakers
Listude
Japanese loudspeaker maker based in Hokuto, Yamanashi, producing geometric speaker designs for music in shared living and listening spaces.
Custom systems / Speakers
Living Voice (Kevin Scott)
Kevin Scott’s Living Voice designs loudspeakers in Long Eaton, England. Alongside its product range, the company develops large bespoke horn systems for dedicated listening spaces.
Amplifiers
Luxman
Luxman makes high-end audio electronics in Japan. Both vintage power amplifiers and newer integrated designs appear in the directory.
Signal processing
Manley Laboratories
Manley Laboratories makes valve audio equipment in the US. Its studio-oriented processing also appears in an elaborate listening-bar signal chain.
Amplifiers
Marantz
Marantz is represented here by a vintage stereo receiver. The equipment forms part of a venue’s rotating selection of amplification.
Amplifiers
Mark Levinson (Harman)
Mark Levinson makes high-end audio electronics. The directory includes both a named vintage preamplifier and installations where the model remains unspecified.
Speakers
Markus Klug
Markus Klug builds multicell horns, including those installed at Shh. Listening Bar in Vienna.
Speakers / Subwoofers
Martion Audiosysteme
Martion Audiosysteme builds horn loudspeakers in Berlin, from compact point-source monitors to large active systems. Founded by Basil Martion, the company combines spherical-wave horns, custom finishes and room-specific integration; its speakers form the system at Yoyaku in Paris.
Mixers / Speakers
MasterSounds
MasterSounds develops rotary mixers and has worked on modified Technics turntables. Its equipment appears in both DJ booths and listening-bar playback chains.
Amplifiers
McIntosh Laboratory
McIntosh Laboratory makes amplifiers, preamplifiers and source equipment in Binghamton, New York. Its electronics are used across a wide range of the featured listening rooms.
Digital players & DACs
Meridian Audio
British audio manufacturer Meridian makes home-audio systems and digital audio products. Its equipment is represented at Kissakeko by a reported vintage CD player whose exact model is not yet identified.
Turntables
Micro-Seiki
Micro-Seiki’s vintage turntables remain in use in specialist analogue systems. Rhinoçéros is one such installation.
Signal processing
miniDSP
miniDSP supplies digital signal-processing hardware. Its equipment can help tune a playback system to the acoustic behaviour of a particular room.
Amplifiers / Preamplifiers / Phono stages
ModWright Instruments
ModWright builds amplifiers, preamplifiers and phono stages in the United States. Its range combines tube stages with power amplification, including the LS 99 and KWA 99. Kissa Kissa lists those components alongside a PH 9.0X phono stage.
Cables
Mogami
Mogami makes audio cables. Macanudo uses Neglex W2534 for signal connections and W3082 between amplifiers and loudspeakers.
Speakers
musikelectronic geithain
musikelectronic geithain develops studio monitors in Germany. Its RL-series loudspeakers bring a professional monitoring approach to several Spincoaster listening rooms.
Amplifiers
NAD Electronics
NAD makes home audio electronics. Its C 3050 is represented in a venue that combines seated listening with DJ programming.
Cartridges / Components
Nagaoka
Nagaoka makes phono cartridges in Japan. Its MP-110 appears in a modified turntable installation.
Amplifiers
Naim
Naim makes hi-fi electronics. Shibuya Hi-Fi’s earlier bar-system record identifies a NAC72 preamplifier and NAP140 power amplifier.
Digital players & DACs / Tape & recording
Nakamichi (historic)
Nakamichi’s vintage cassette decks are represented by a 700 II. This historical tape equipment should be distinguished from current consumer products using the brand name.
Accessories
Neutrik
Neutrik makes connectors for audio and other professional applications. Its connectors are used throughout Macanudo’s system.
Loudspeakers / Subwoofers / Installed sound
New Fidelity
New Fidelity builds loudspeakers in Germany, combining in-house manufacturing with custom system design. Its work ranges from active studio-style monitors to installations shaped around bars, record shops and other listening spaces.
Speakers
NNNN
NNNN is a Norwegian professional-audio company making loudspeakers and subwoofers. Its collaboration with OJAS connects large-scale sound-system engineering with bespoke listening installations.
Signal processing
NST
NST is credited with DSP crossover and time-alignment processing in the Hidden Grooves bass system. The precise processor model is unspecified.
Custom systems / Speakers
OJAS (Devon Turnbull)
OJAS is Devon Turnbull’s audio practice. Horn loudspeakers, valve electronics and collaborations with specialist builders connect its work to the traditions of cinema and Japanese listening rooms.
Mixers
Omnitronic
Omnitronic makes DJ and audio equipment, including the TRM series of rotary mixers.
Cartridges / Components
Ortofon
Ortofon makes cartridges and analogue playback components in Denmark. The directory includes both current-style moving-magnet equipment and reported vintage SPU use.
Custom systems / Speakers
Palladium Audio
Palladium Audio makes loudspeakers by hand in France. Its Cube, Heritage and Sub ranges can be adapted, installed and calibrated for hospitality spaces and private listening rooms.
Amplifiers
Parasound
Parasound makes audio electronics, including power amplifiers. Its equipment appears in venues using separate amplification for their loudspeakers.
Pass Labs
Pass Labs makes audio electronics; its XP-30 preamplifier appears in Far Cry’s announced opening system.
Speakers
Phil Kramer
Phil Kramer designed One Park’s custom horn loudspeaker installation in Cape Town, combining restored cinema cabinets, newly machined horns and biamplification.
Custom systems / Speakers
PHYSM Industrial
PHYSM Industrial designs loudspeakers and sound systems. Its social posts document the EME1 speaker and development work on its passive contour circuit.
Speakers
Pioneer (historic loudspeakers)
Pioneer appears in historical accounts of large Japanese listening-room loudspeakers. Those attributions should be read separately from the company’s later playback electronics and DJ products.
Digital players & DACs / Tape & recording
Pioneer electronics (8-track / tape)
Pioneer’s vintage tape equipment provides an additional playback format in the directory. This profile covers those electronics rather than Pioneer DJ or historical loudspeaker commissions.
Custom systems / Speakers
Pitt & Giblin
Based in Hobart, Pitt & Giblin makes loudspeakers in small batches. Jack Pitt and Ross Giblin combine cabinet craftsmanship with audio engineering. The workshop uses veneered birch-plywood cabinets and locally cast bronze waveguides.
Speakers
Polk Audio
Polk Audio makes home loudspeakers. Its vintage RTA12C towers are represented in the directory as part of a system assembled from several classic brands.
Amplifiers
Powersoft
Powersoft develops professional amplification and processing in Italy. Its Unica platform is used to drive multiple parts of a large listening-bar installation.
Turntables
Pro-Ject Audio Systems
Pro-Ject Audio Systems makes turntables and related electronics. It is a separate business from the London installation company Project Audio Ltd.
Design & installation / Isolation & acoustics
Project Audio Ltd
Project Audio Ltd designs and installs sound systems in London. It is distinct from Pro-Ject Audio Systems, the turntable manufacturer.
RCA
RCA cinema bass horns form the low-frequency section of Decibel’s custom listening system.
Turntables and amplification
Rega
Rega makes turntables and amplification. Ri.Co HiFi in Santiago combines a Planar 8 record player with a Rega amplifier.
Turntables
Reloop
Reloop makes DJ equipment, including direct-drive turntables. Its decks appear in rooms that combine record selection with bar service.
Mixers
Resør
Resør makes discrete Class-A rotary mixers. Its 2525FX is represented in a venue system built around a modified vintage turntable.
Digital players & DACs / Tape & recording
Revox
Revox makes audio equipment with a long association with reel-to-reel tape. Its B77 is represented in a venue offering several playback formats.
Signal processing
Rupert Neve Designs
Rupert Neve Designs makes professional audio electronics in the US. Its processing and conversion equipment is represented in a listening-bar installation.
Amplifiers
Sansui
Sansui’s historic Japanese hi-fi electronics remain in use in vintage systems. The examples here concern older amplifiers rather than current consumer products sold under the name.
Speakers
Seaton Sound
Seaton Sound specialises in subwoofers. Its products provide low-frequency reinforcement alongside another manufacturer’s main loudspeakers.
Cartridges / Components
Shelter
Shelter makes phono cartridges and related accessories in Japan. Its contribution here includes a headshell on a modified record deck.
Amplifiers
Shindo Laboratory
Shindo Laboratory is associated with Japanese valve amplification. Its preamplifiers and power amplifiers are used with vintage horn loudspeakers in the directory.
Microphones / Cartridges
Shure
Shure makes microphones and other professional audio equipment. Its SM58 is represented here in a venue’s live-performance setup.
Headphones
SIVGA
SIVGA makes headphones in China. Its SV021 is represented in a venue that offers headphone listening alongside the room system.
Turntables
SME
SME makes precision turntables and tonearms in Britain. Its record-playing equipment is used in systems assembled from specialist analogue components.
Signal processing
SMSL
SMSL makes compact digital converters and amplifiers. Its desktop equipment appears in a venue’s rotating headphone setup.
Design & installation / Isolation & acoustics
SOLUM Studio
SOLUM Studio works on interiors in Milan. Its contribution here includes the materials and architectural elements surrounding a vintage loudspeaker system.
Digital players & DACs
Sony
Sony makes consumer and professional electronics. Its HAP-Z1ES digital music player is represented in a Tokyo listening-room installation.
Sorane
Sorane makes tonearms, including the SA 1.2 listed for Far Cry’s opening system.
Turntables
Soulines
Soulines makes turntables. A Kubrick deck is reported in the private listening-room setup at Listeners.
Design & installation / Signal processing
Sound Metaphors
Sound Metaphors is a Berlin music business associated with custom sound-system work. It is credited alongside H.A.N.D. HiFi on a featured installation.
Design & installation / Isolation & acoustics
Soundlux Audio
Soundlux Audio is a Miami hi-fi business involved in system selection and design. Its venue work includes collaboration with specialist speaker and acoustic designers.
Design & installation / Isolation & acoustics
Steven Durr Designs
Steven Durr Designs works on acoustics and audio-system design. Its contribution here connects a custom loudspeaker installation with the surrounding venue.
Digital players & DACs / Tape & recording
Studer
Studer is associated with professional recording and broadcast equipment. A vintage A730 CD player is the unit represented in this directory.
Design & installation / Isolation & acoustics
Studio Kos
Studio Kos is credited as a room-design collaborator at Public Records. Its role is presented separately from the makers of the equipment installed there.
Amplifiers
Sugden Audio
Sugden Audio makes hi-fi electronics in Britain and is associated with Class-A amplification. It is named among the suppliers to Spiritland’s system.
Cartridges / Components
Sumiko
Sumiko supplies phono cartridges. One of its cartridges is paired with a Pro-Ject listening turntable in the directory.
Design & installation
SYMU Systems
SYMU Systems works on sound-system integration and tuning. A sign at Hedge Coffee credits its work alongside loudspeaker builder PHYSM Industrial.
Components / Speakers
TAD (Technical Audio Devices)
Technical Audio Devices, known as TAD, has roots in Pioneer’s professional-audio work. Its loudspeakers and drivers are represented in high-end listening systems.
Amplifiers
Tandberg (historic)
Tandberg’s vintage receivers represent the Norwegian brand’s earlier hi-fi production. The directory includes an example used alongside other classic amplifiers and speakers.
Speakers
Tannoy
Tannoy is known for Dual Concentric loudspeakers. Its larger cabinets have become focal points in rooms built around vinyl playback.
Digital players & DACs / Tape & recording
Tascam (TEAC)
Tascam, part of TEAC, makes recording and playback equipment. Its DA-3000 appears alongside analogue sources in a listening-bar system.
Mixers
Taula
Taula is the mixer name credited at La Analógica HIFI. The room’s equipment list identifies a 4MR rotary unit.
Turntables
Technics (Panasonic)
Technics makes direct-drive turntables and other hi-fi equipment. The SL-1200 and SL-1210 families connect professional DJ use with dedicated record listening.
Accessories / Components / Tonearms
Thomas Schick
Thomas Schick makes tonearms in Berlin. His 12-inch arms are paired with restored Garrard turntables in several featured rooms.
Turntables
Thorens
Thorens is a long-established turntable name. Its record players appear here in a Japanese listening room, although the model is not specified.
Amplifiers
Thöress
Thöress builds valve audio electronics. Its F2a11 amplifier is identified in the Rhinoçéros system.
Amplifiers
Threshold Audio
Threshold is associated with US high-end power amplifiers, including Nelson Pass-era designs. The units featured here are vintage equipment maintained in active use.
Amplifiers
Topping
Topping makes audio electronics, including power amplifiers. A pair of its B200 monoblocks powers the midrange and treble of Macanudo’s Klipschorn AK6 system.
Accessories / Components / Isolation & acoustics
Townshend Audio
Townshend Audio develops hi-fi equipment and isolation products. Its supports can reduce mechanical coupling between large loudspeakers and the building around them.
Speakers
TPI
TPI supplies the low-frequency cabinets described at Hidden Grooves. Four UC15G units are positioned beneath the venue’s large Tannoy speakers.
Speakers
Tub’s Audio
Tub’s Audio builds bespoke sound systems. Its installation at Kemuri Hi-Fi brings a custom system into an acoustically treated Auckland basement lounge.
Speakers
Tune Audio
Tune Audio builds horn loudspeakers in Greece. Its large designs are represented in a private listening room associated with the directory.
University Sound
University C15W woofers are used inside the vintage RCA bass horns at Decibel.
Amplifiers
Urei (historic) / Soundcraft
Urei’s classic rotary mixers remain part of vinyl playback culture. Historical models in the directory should be distinguished from later Soundcraft products.
Mixers
Varia Instruments
Varia Instruments makes professional DJ equipment, including the RDM40 four-channel rotary mixer installed at Taberna Martha.
Design & installation / Turntables
Vinylista
Vinylista is credited with custom turntable plinths. These bases form part of restored Garrard installations alongside separately chosen arms and cartridges.
Components / Speakers
Vitavox
Vitavox has a long association with horn loudspeakers and professional drivers. Its components have also been incorporated into systems built by other specialist manufacturers.
Accessories / Components / Tonearms
Viv Labs
Viv Labs is a Japanese tonearm maker. Its equipment has been reported in Spiritland’s album-listening playback chain.
Speakers
Void Acoustics
Void Acoustics makes loudspeakers, subwoofers and amplification for installed and performance sound. Its equipment can work alongside custom cabinets in a larger venue system.
Turntables
VPI Industries
VPI Industries makes turntables and tonearms in New Jersey. Its record players are represented in a venue with several analogue playback paths.
Design & installation
Vunktion
Vunktion works on sound-system installation and integration. New Fidelity credits Vunktion as the installation partner for Taberna Martha in Madrid.
Components / Custom systems
Werner Jagusch
Werner Jagusch builds specialist loudspeaker crossovers in Germany. His autoformer-based work is associated with vintage Altec and OJAS installations.
Components / Speakers
Western Electric
Western Electric’s current audio work includes 300B valves. Vintage cabinets bearing the name belong to an earlier cinema-sound history and should be distinguished from current production.
Speakers
Yamaha
Yamaha makes musical instruments and professional audio equipment. In this directory, its portable PA serves live performances within a music venue.
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