Letter B — Brands

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B.E.C. Akustik is a German company specializing in the development and manufacture of acoustic systems.

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Bowers & Wilkins, usually shortened to B&W, is an English company making loudspeakers and headphones, founded in 1966 in Worthing, West Sussex, by John Bowers and Roy Wilkins. It builds consumer and professional loudspeakers, headphones and wireless ...

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Backert Labs is a Pennsylvania company that makes only vacuum tube preamplifiers. It was founded in 2014 by Bob Backert and his son Gary. The company builds nothing but preamps - line stages and phono stages - and every unit runs on Bob Backert's own...

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Backes & Muller is a German maker of active loudspeakers, founded in Saarbrucken in the early 1970s by engineer Friedrich Muller and businessman Wolfgang Backes. It marked its 50th anniversary in 2023 and has built only active designs with built-in a...

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Ballfinger is a German manufacturer from Dusseldorf, founded in 2004 as a design company that first made watches and lamps before turning to audio equipment in 2013. It is known for the Tonbandmaschine M 063, a newly built reel-to-reel tape recorder ...

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Bang & Olufsen is a Danish maker of high-end audio and video products, founded in 1925 in Struer by engineers Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, whose first success was a radio powered from the mains at a time when battery sets dominated. Today it sells l...

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Bärbox is a young German loudspeaker maker founded by mechanical engineer Christian Fischer, which presented its first passive speaker in the summer of 2025. The idea behind the company is a speaker that sits in a living room as naturally as a piece ...

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Barefoot Sound is a US studio monitor company, set up in 2006 by physicist and engineer Thomas Barefoot together with Tedi Sarafian. It grew out of speakers Barefoot hand-built in his San Francisco garage, starting with a full-range monitor prototype...

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Baseus is a Chinese consumer electronics brand founded in 2011 in Shenzhen, best known for chargers, power banks, cables and phone accessories, with a growing range of wireless earbuds and headphones. The name is a contraction of Based on user, and t...

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Basis Audio is an American turntable and tonearm maker from Hollis, New Hampshire, founded in 1984 by aerospace mechanical engineer Armando A.J. Conti. The company has hand-built record players in the USA for more than 40 years and is known for heavy...

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BASN Audio is an in-ear monitor brand started in California in 2009 by audiophile Louis Lee. The name is short for Be a Sincere Newcomer, a reminder of his aim to be an honest headphone maker while new to the industry. Today the company makes univers...

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BASSBOSS is an American maker of self-powered subwoofers and loudspeakers for live sound, based in Austin, Texas. It traces its roots to 1999, when Johan van Zyl and chief designer David Lee started the business that was first called Rhino Acoustics ...

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BAYZ Audio is an independent Hungarian loudspeaker maker founded in 1997 by designer Zoltan Bay. It is a small company with two current floorstanding models, built around an omnidirectional tweeter of its own invention. Range & what it's known for ...

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BC Acoustique is a French hi-fi brand founded in 1993 near Paris by Christian Avedissian and Bruno Roux. The company builds amplifiers, CD players and compact all-in-one systems aimed at buyers who want a complete stereo setup for a reasonable outlay...

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Beats Electronics is an American audio equipment manufacturer specializing in headphones, speakers, and related accessories. The brand is known as Beats by Dr. Dre.

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Behringer is a pro audio and musical instrument brand founded on 25 January 1989 by Swiss engineer Uli Behringer in Willich, Germany, where it is still headquartered. It is known for mixing consoles, audio interfaces, effects pedals, amplifiers, drum...

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Bella Sound is an American maker of solid-state power amplifiers, power conditioners and AC power cords, founded by engineer Michael Vice. Offices and factory sit in Northern California, about 25 miles south of San Francisco, and the catalog is small...

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Benchmark Media Systems is an American maker of studio and home audio electronics based in Syracuse, New York. It started in 1983 as a small garage operation in Garland, Texas, building gear for television broadcast facilities, and today it is best k...

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Benz Micro is a Swiss maker of moving-coil phono cartridges based in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, in the canton of Schaffhausen. The company was founded in 1970 by Ernst Benz, a physicist and master watchmaker, and has been producing moving-coil cartridge...

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Bergmann is the short name used for Bergmann Audio, a Danish maker of air-bearing turntables and linear-tracking tonearms based in Hobro in northern Denmark. Mechanical engineer Johnnie Bergmann established the company in 2008, and its first model wa...

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Bergmann Audio is a Danish manufacturer of turntables and tonearms that use air bearings, founded in 2008 by mechanical engineer Johnnie Bergmann in Hobro, Denmark. Its first product was the Sindre, a turntable with an integrated arm. The company is ...

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Berkeley Audio Design is an American maker of digital-to-analogue converters and USB digital interfaces, based in California. It was founded by Michael Pflaumer and Michael Ritter, both co-founders of Pacific Microsonics, and its Alpha DAC and Alpha ...

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BETONart Audio is a small German loudspeaker workshop run by physicist Jörg Wähdel in Leimen near Heidelberg, building passive and fully active floorstanders and subwoofers whose enclosures are cast in one piece from carbon concrete. The company desc...

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Beyerdynamic is a German maker of headphones, microphones, wireless and conference systems, founded in Berlin in 1924 by Eugen Beyer and based in Heilbronn since 1948. It employs about 500 people, is best known for studio headphones such as the DT 77...

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BIC America is a loudspeaker and subwoofer brand from Cleveland, Ohio, that has sold its own speakers since 1973 and today offers home-theatre, stereo, installation and portable models at low list prices. The name goes back to British Industries Corp...

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Binary Acoustics, now trading simply as Binary, is a small Chinese in-ear monitor maker established in 2017. It sells a handful of earphones through its own online store and through HiFiGo, with designs built around multi-driver layouts in compact, m...

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Black Ice Audio is the current name of Jolida, a privately held tube electronics company from Brookeville, Maryland, whose roots go back to 1983. It builds tube integrated and power amplifiers, preamplifiers, phono stages, tube DACs and headphone amp...

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Blaupunkt is a German consumer electronics brand that began in Berlin in 1924 under the name Ideal, and its name became tied to car radios, home radios and televisions. Its name translates as blue dot, after the blue mark once placed on headphones th...

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Block Audio, also trading as Audioblock, is a German hi-fi brand from Lower Saxony run by the Block family business, which has distributed hi-fi products in Germany since 1988. It is known for feature-rich components at moderate prices, especially am...

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Blue Jeans Cable is a Seattle, Washington, manufacturer of cables, founded in 2002 by Kurt and Pam Denke. It is known for building audio, video and network cables from professional broadcast-grade cable stock, sold at plain prices with full construct...

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Bluesound is a Canadian brand of wireless multiroom streaming audio, launched worldwide in 2013 from Pickering, Ontario, by the same engineering team that works on NAD Electronics and PSB Speakers. It is known for its BluOS streaming platform, which ...

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Blumenhofer Acoustics is a German horn loudspeaker manufacturer, started in 1977 by Thomas Blumenhofer and based in a nature park near Munich. The company is known for horn-loaded designs with high sensitivity, and its approach grew out of decades of...

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boAt is an Indian consumer audio and wearables brand founded in 2016 in New Delhi by Aman Gupta and Sameer Mehta. It sells wireless earbuds, headphones, Bluetooth speakers and smartwatches at mass-market prices, and its parent company passed INR 3,00...

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Boenicke Audio is a Swiss loudspeaker company from Basel, founded in the late 1990s by Sven Boenicke, a recording engineer who still captures live music in concert halls. Its name is tied to small, solid wood loudspeakers that produce far more bass a...

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Bonawatt is a young Polish maker of valve amplifiers, handcrafted in Poland and shown to the wider industry at High End Munich 2025. The company was founded by a Warsaw University of Technology graduate in mechatronics and telecommunications, who lef...

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Bose is an American audio company founded in 1964 by Amar Bose, then a professor at MIT, and based in Framingham, Massachusetts. Its name is most often tied to consumer noise-cancelling headphones and portable speakers, and also builds aviation heads...

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Boulder Amplifiers is a Colorado company building solid-state amplifiers, preamplifiers and digital source components, founded in 1983 by Jeff Nelson in Boulder, Colorado. It started out building professional studio electronics and moved later into h...

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Boulder Amplifiers is a privately owned American electronics company that Jeff Nelson set up in Boulder, Colorado in 1983. Its roots are in professional audio, and its first product, the 500 amplifier, came out in 1984 for studio use. Today it builds...

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Bowers & Wilkins, often written B&W, is a British loudspeaker and headphone company that John Bowers and Roy Wilkins started in Worthing, West Sussex, in 1966, two men who had met during military service in the Second World War. It makes home hi-fi a...

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Børresen Acoustics is a Danish high-end loudspeaker brand from Aalborg, founded in the late 2010s by designer Michael Børresen and Lars Kristensen. It belongs to Audio Group Denmark and is known for planar ribbon tweeters and drivers built around an ...

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Breggz is an audio equipment brand whose catalog entry currently offers limited detailed public documentation beyond its general positioning within the specialist audio manufacturing segment. Range & what it's known for The lineup in this catalog ...

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Bricasti Design is a US company building studio reverb processors and home DACs, founded in 2004 and based in Medford, Massachusetts. It began as a pro-audio company, and its M7 stereo reverb, released in 2007, became a standard tool in recording stu...

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Brinkmann Audio is a German maker of turntables, tonearms and electronics, founded in 1985 by engineer Helmut Brinkmann in the southwest of the country. Its first product was the Balance belt-drive turntable, sold alongside a preamplifier that includ...

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Brodmann Acoustics is a Vienna-based loudspeaker maker that carries the name of Joseph Brodmann, a piano builder of the early 19th century whose instruments were played by Beethoven and Carl Maria von Weber.The loudspeaker business came to the name a...

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Bryston is a Canadian maker of amplifiers, preamplifiers, digital sources and loudspeakers, based in Peterborough, Ontario. The company dates back to 1962, when it built medical and industrial electronics such as blood analysers, and it moved into au...

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Buchardt Audio is a Danish loudspeaker maker founded in 2013 in Silkeborg by Mads Buchardt and Kasper Raun. It sells passive and active speakers, subwoofers and stands directly to listeners in many countries through its own online store, without dist...

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Buckeye Amps is an American builder of class D power amplifiers, started in October 2020 by Dylan Launder. It assembles ready-to-use amplifiers around modules from Hypex and Purifi, acting as a North American OEM builder for both, and it sells direct...

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Burmester Audiosysteme was set up in Berlin in 1977 by Dieter Burmester, an Austrian-born musician and engineer. It builds amplifiers, preamplifiers, CD players, turntables and loudspeakers for the home, and it also designs factory sound systems for ...

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Burson Audio is an Australian maker of headphone amplifiers, DACs, DAC-amp combos and discrete op-amps, based in Melbourne and trading as Burson Audio Melbourne Pty Ltd. Its products are designed in-house and sold as Melbourne-made Class-A designs. T...