Aurorasound
Website:https://www.aurorasound.jp/
Est. year: 2010
Aurorasound Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company founded in 2010 by Shinobu Karake, who previously worked at the Japanese branch of Texas Instruments dealing specifically with digital audio before his early retirement led him back to his personal hobby of building audio devices, initially collaborating with other audio companies before establishing Aurorasound as an independent business.
Range & what it's known for
The catalog reflects Karake's semiconductor and digital-audio engineering background applied to phono stages and related analogue electronics, giving Aurorasound a somewhat unusual engineering pedigree for a company now focused primarily on analogue vinyl-playback support equipment, having originated in digital-audio semiconductor work rather than traditional analogue circuit design.
Who owns it and where it's made
Aurorasound remains closely associated with founder Shinobu Karake, continuing to design and manufacture its products domestically in Japan since the company's 2010 founding.
The lineup in this catalog
Phono stages (2). Pricing sits in the mid-to-high-end phono-stage segment typical of specialist Japanese boutique manufacturers.
Who it's for
Aurorasound suits vinyl-focused buyers specifically interested in a Japanese phono-stage specialist whose founder brings an unusual digital-semiconductor engineering background to analogue circuit design.