Letter C — Brands

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CAAS Audio is a small British amplifier maker founded in Yorkshire in 2006 by Carl and Neil Broomfield. Carl is an engineer specialising in high-frequency microwave electronics and Neil is a software engineer. The company builds Class-A based amplifi...

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Cabasse is a French loudspeaker maker founded in 1950 by Georges Cabasse and based in western France, near Brest. Over more than seven decades it has built speakers for homes, studios and cinemas, and its coaxial drive units and the spherical La Sphe...

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Cambrige Audio is a misspelt catalog name for Cambridge Audio, the London-based British electronics company that started life in 1968 within the Cambridge Consultants group. Both names point to the same company and the same products. Range & what it...

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Cambridge Audio is a British maker of hi-fi electronics that began in 1968 inside the Cambridge Consultants group in Cambridge, England, and now headquartered in London. Its first product, the P40 amplifier with 20 watts per channel, was the first am...

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Campfire Audio is an American in-ear monitor maker founded in 2015 by Ken Ball in Portland, Oregon. Ball previously ran ALO Audio, a company known for high-end cables and portable amplifiers, and Campfire grew out of that work. The firm is small, wit...

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CanEVER Audio is a small Italian high-end electronics company founded in 2013 by the engineer Mario Canever. Its first product was the ZeroUno digital-to-analogue converter, and the catalog has since grown into a compact family of DACs, preamplifiers...

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Canor Audio is a Slovak maker of tube and hybrid amplification based in Prešov, in the east of the country. Its first series product, the TP101 tube integrated amplifier, was shown as a prototype at the Brno trade fair in April 1995, and the company ...

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Cantico is a small Italian high-end audio company founded by Silvio Germano Ricci, designing and hand-building loudspeakers and electronics in Ponderano, in the Piedmont province of Biella. It has been producing hi-fi systems since 2009 and remains a...

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Canton is a German loudspeaker manufacturer founded in October 1972 and based in Weilrod, Hesse, about 35 kilometres northwest of Frankfurt. The name joins the Latin cantare, to sing, with the German word Ton, meaning sound. Canton describes itself a...

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Cardas Audio is an American cable and connector maker founded by George Cardas in 1987 in Ontario, California, and based since 1992 in Bandon, a small town on the southern Oregon coast. It began in the family garage, with relatives helping to colour ...

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Carver is an American amplifier brand built around the designs of Bob Carver, a physicist and engineer active in audio since the early 1970s. Carver Corporation was founded in 1979 in the Pacific Northwest and became known for powerful amplifiers, pr...

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Cary Audio is a privately held American electronics maker from North Carolina, founded in May 1989 by Dennis (Denny) Had, an engineer who had earlier started several amateur radio equipment companies. The firm took its name from the town of Cary, whe...

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Castle is a British loudspeaker brand founded on 3 September 1973 in Skipton, North Yorkshire, by former executives of Wharfedale. It was named after Skipton Castle and spent more than three decades building speakers in the town, mostly traditionally...

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Castle Acoustics is the full trading name of the Castle loudspeaker company, set up in Skipton, Yorkshire, in September 1973 by people who had left Wharfedale. The firm made speakers for domestic hi-fi from a former wool mill in the town until 2006. ...

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Cayin is the audio brand of Zhuhai Spark Electronic Equipment Co., Ltd., a Chinese company founded in 1993 in Zhuhai, Guangdong. It built its name on vacuum tube amplifiers, which remain its core work, and grew into a maker of complete home systems c...

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Celest Audio is a small in-ear monitor and portable audio brand founded in 2021, selling through its own online store priced in US dollars. Its founder, introduced only as Mr. Yu, had spent more than twenty years on earphone development, including ti...

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Cen.Grand is a Chinese hi-fi maker from Shenzhen, set up in 2011 by a group of audio engineers. It is known mainly for its DSDAC converters and digital music players, and after building its name at home it now sells through regional distributors in A...

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Ceratec Audio Design is a German loudspeaker maker based in the Bremen area, run by Ulrich Ranke, the founder of the hi-fi brand Eton. The company designs speakers meant to blend into living spaces, built from aluminium, hand-polished stainless steel...

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Cessaro Horn Acoustics builds horn loudspeakers in Germany, founded in 2006 by Ralph Krebs and based in Huttenberg in Hesse. The company builds only horn-loaded systems, from compact two-way designs to multi-tower reference installations, and sells t...

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CH Precision is a Swiss electronics company started in 2009 by electronics engineer Florian Cossy and software engineer Thierry Heeb, whose initials form the name. Based in Preverenges near Lausanne, the small company builds transports, DACs, preampl...

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Chane Music & Cinema is an American loudspeaker company selling direct over the internet, formed when Jon Lane of The Audio Insider and Craig Chase of Chase Home Theater merged their businesses. The Audio Insider brought a background in two-channel s...

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Chario is an Italian loudspeaker manufacturer founded in April 1975 by Carlo (Charlie) Vicenzetto and Mario Marcello Murace, two engineers from the University of Milan, and the company name joins their first names. It began as a university-backed aco...

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Charney Audio, founded by Brian Charney, is a United States builder of loudspeakers, known for horn-loaded designs built around a single wideband driver in a tractrix horn. It is a small specialist operation rather than a large manufacturer, and its ...

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Chord Electronics is a British maker of digital converters and amplifiers founded in 1989 by John Franks, an electrical engineer who had worked on power supplies in the aviation industry. Within a year of its launch the company was supplying the BBC,...

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The Chord Company is an English cable maker founded in 1985 and based in Amesbury, Wiltshire, where it still designs and terminates its cables by hand. It began when visitors from Naim Audio in the USA asked for a good DIN-to-RCA interconnect over a ...

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Chord Electronics is an English electronics company set up in 1989 by engineer John Franks to turn his aviation power-supply experience into hi-fi amplifiers, and it now builds both converters and amplifiers in Kent. Its early customers were broadcas...

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Cinnamon Audio is a Portuguese high-end audio maker that designs and builds open-baffle loudspeakers, a subwoofer, DACs and analogue components. The company has been trading under the Cinnamon name since 2021 and is still a young, small firm run by t...

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Circle Labs is a Polish maker of hybrid valve and transistor amplifiers based in Krakow. Its audio range grew out of a firm that for many years designed and built specialised equipment for microbiology research, and its own Circle Power output circui...

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Clarisys Audio is a ribbon loudspeaker maker with roots in Vietnam and Switzerland, building full-range systems from corrugated aluminium ribbon drivers. The firm began in the early 2010s as a supplier of replacement ribbons for vintage Apogee Acoust...

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Classe Audio is a Canadian maker of high-end amplifiers, preamplifiers and AV processors, designed in Montreal since the company started at the turn of the 1980s. Its first product, the DR-2 of 1980, was a 25 W stereo amplifier running in Class A, an...

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Clearaudio is a German analogue specialist based in Erlangen, founded in 1978 by engineer Peter Suchy. The company builds turntables, tonearms, cartridges, phono stages and record cleaning machines, and it is widely recognised for its clear and trans...

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Cleer Audio is a consumer audio company from San Diego, California, founded in 2012, that designs wireless headphones, true wireless earbuds and portable smart speakers. It describes itself as a small team made up of former leaders and insiders of la...

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Closer Acoustics is a small Polish maker of high-efficiency loudspeakers and tube electronics, run from Katowice by brothers Jacek and Andrzej Grodecki, with Jacek as founder and CEO. Everything is built by hand in its own workshop in Poland. The com...

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CML Music is a British loudspeaker brand founded by Dr Christopher Mark Liauw, whose initials give the company its name. It is a small direct-selling maker that builds high-sensitivity speakers under the Etude name, intended to work with amplifiers o...

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Cocktail Audio is a South Korean brand of all-in-one music servers and network players, owned by the IT company Novatron, which was set up in 2003. The first Cocktail Audio CD ripper and music server arrived in 2006, and the brand has since built a r...

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Coincident Speaker Technology is a Canadian maker of loudspeakers and tube amplifiers, founded in 1993 by Israel Blume and based in Maple, Ontario, north of Toronto. Blume started the company after being dissatisfied with every speaker he had owned. ...

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Connected Fidelity is a small British company led by Michael Osborn, an industry figure with a background in acoustic isolation and high-end product design. Its first turntable, the TT Hub, was shown at the Bristol HiFi Show in 2023, and the company ...

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Concert Fidelity is the Japanese tube-electronics label of designer Masataka Tsuda, who launched it at the 1986 Japan Audio Fair in Tokyo with the SPA-4A, a no-feedback, FET-based moving-coil phono preamplifier. It is a small, designer-led operation ...

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Consolidated Audio is a small German specialist founded by electrical engineer Michael Ulbrich that makes components and offers services for playing analog recordings. Its main product is the Monster Can, a passive moving-coil step-up transformer for...

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Constellation Audio is an American maker of high-end amplifiers and preamplifiers, formed in Southern California in 2008. Financiers David Payes and Murali Murugasu set it up and gave audio engineer Peter Madnick the job of assembling a team of desig...

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Copland is a Danish maker of tube and hybrid amplifiers, established in 1984 by Ole Møller, a former Ortofon engineer, and based in central Copenhagen. It deliberately keeps a short catalog, currently built around integrated amplifiers and a headphon...

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Core Audio is a Hungarian maker of digital playback equipment for high-end audio, founded by Viktor Váradi and run with design engineer Gábor Depner and advisor Mihály Erdélyi, PhD. The company works on the digital side of a system - servers, convert...

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Corsair is an American PC hardware and gaming peripherals company, founded in January 1994 as Corsair Microsystems and now based in Milpitas, California. It began with cache modules for computer makers, moved into DRAM memory and grew into power supp...

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Creative Technology is a Singaporean consumer electronics company founded on 1 July 1981 by Sim Wong Hoo, Ng Kai Wa and Chay Kwong Soon. Its most famous product is the Sound Blaster sound card, introduced in 1989, which made digital audio a standard ...

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Creek Audio is a British maker of amplifiers and source components, founded in London in 1982 by Mike Creek. Its first product, the CAS4040 integrated amplifier, sold for GBP 99 and set the pattern of compact, straightforward electronics that the com...

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Critical Mass Systems is an American maker of equipment racks, isolation shelves and footers, established in 2000 in the Chicago area of Illinois by Joseph and Joy Lavrencik. It works only on component support, using constrained layer damping to cont...

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Crosley is an American record player and home electronics brand run from Louisville, Kentucky, best known for suitcase-style portable turntables such as the Cruiser. The name dates back to Powel Crosley Jr., whose Harko crystal radio set of 1921 star...

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Crown Audio is an American maker of professional power amplifiers that started in Elkhart, Indiana, where minister Clarence C. Moore set up the International Radio and Electronics Corporation in 1947. The first products were rugged reel-to-reel tape ...

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CS Port is a Japanese company specializing in the production of high-end audio equipment.

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Cyrus is a British hi-fi electronics maker based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, known for amplifiers, streamers and CD players built in a compact half-width box. It began in 1983 as the electronics arm of the Mission loudspeaker group founded by Fara...

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Cyrus Audio is the company name of the British electronics maker sold under the Cyrus badge, and this page covers the same business as the main Cyrus entry. Cyrus Audio Ltd is registered in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, and its story goes back to 1983,...