Allnic Audio
Website:https://www.allnicaudio.com
Est. year: 1997
Allnic Audio is a South Korean maker of tube electronics founded in September 1997 by Kang Su Park and based in Seongnam, near Seoul. Park had previously spent seven years at Silvaweld, a company known for single-ended triode amplifiers, and the new firm took its name from the all-nickel-core transformers that remain its signature. From a first stereo amplifier with two 300B tubes per channel, the catalog has widened into preamplifiers, phono stages, headphone amplifiers, DACs, moving-coil cartridges, step-up transformers and cables.
Range & what it's known for
Amplification remains the centre. Integrated amplifiers such as the T-2000 30th Anniversary sit alongside the L-9000 OTL/OCL preamplifier and power amplifiers including the A-6000 and the M-2500 monoblocks. Phono stages started with the H-1500 in 2008 and now run up to the H-7000 and the H-10000 OTL/OCL, with the H-7000V offering equalisation curves for pre-RIAA records. The analogue side continues with the Amber and Rose moving-coil cartridges, successors to the Puritas, and with step-up transformers. Digital is covered by the D-15000 DAC, which followed the D-10000, and headphone listeners get the HPA-5000XL and the ASRA RHPA-7500. Two engineering habits define the house style, nickel-core transformers wound in-house and hand-built constant-impedance attenuators with silver contacts in 41 or 61 steps used instead of potentiometers.
Who owns it and where it's made
Allnic Audio is a private family company owned and run by Kang Su Park, with a small staff drawn from his family, including a son responsible for marketing. Everything is designed and built at the company's own facility in Seongnam, South Korea, from transformer winding to the recent in-house manufacture of vacuum tubes. Exports to Europe and the United States began in 2000, with Germany the first foreign market,.
The lineup in this catalog
Components spanning amplifiers, cartridges, phono stages and cables. Prices run from cables and accessories at the low end up to the largest tube preamplifiers and phono stages at the top.
Who it's for
Allnic is a brand for vinyl-centred systems. A typical path starts with a cartridge or an H-series phono stage and grows into a matching preamplifier and tube power amplifier from the same range, so that the whole chain shares one transformer-based design approach. Allnic is aimed at a tube system in which triode circuits and the low noise of transformer coupling matter, and where hand assembly by a small workshop is preferred to volume production.