Letter D — Brands

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Dan D'Agostino Master Audio Systems is a United States company building power amplifiers, preamplifiers and integrated amplifiers at the top of the market. It was founded in 2011 by Dan D'Agostino and based in Cave Creek, Arizona. Its founder started...

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D'Von Audio is a family-run British loudspeaker maker set up in 2019 near Exeter in Devon. It builds a single passive range called Aurora, made up of two standmount models and two floorstanding models, and it remains a small specialist workshop rathe...

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D&A, short for DIGI & AESTH, is a Chinese brand of desktop digital audio founded in 2024 in Shenzhen. It designs combined DAC and headphone amplifiers, with digital-to-analog conversion as the core of the range. The name joins the digital side of the...

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DALI, short for Danish Audiophile Loudspeaker Industries, is a loudspeaker maker founded in Denmark in 1983 by Peter Lyngdorf. It began as the in-house speaker brand of his Hi-Fi Klubben retail chain and has since grown into an exporter present in mo...

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Dan Clark Audio is an American headphone maker from San Diego, founded in 2012 by audio engineer Dan Clark under the name MrSpeakers. It builds planar-magnetic over-ear headphones, both open and closed, and adopted its founder's name in 2019, announc...

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Dan Dagostino is an alternative catalog listing for Dan D'Agostino Master Audio Systems, the Arizona amplifier company that Dan D'Agostino set up in 2011 after leaving Krell, the firm he had founded in 1980. Models listed under this spelling come fro...

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darTZeel Audio SA is a Swiss maker of ultra high-end amplification, founded in 2001 in Geneva by electronic engineer Hervé Delétraz. The roots go back to 1984, when Delétraz designed an amplifier without negative feedback as a student project, and th...

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Davis Acoustics is a French loudspeaker manufacturer founded in 1986 by engineer Michel Visan and now based in Troyes. Before starting the company Visan spent years developing drivers and enclosures at Vega and then at SIARE, where he was technical d...

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Davone Audio is a small Danish loudspeaker company that has been building speakers since 2007, known for cabinets made from thermo-formed plywood rather than flat panels. It is run by Paul Schenkel, an aeronautical engineer with a master's degree in ...

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Dayens is a family-owned Serbian maker of amplifiers, founded in 1991 in the town of Šabac. The company was started by an electronics engineer during a hard period for the country marked by sanctions and war, and it has stayed small, hand-assembling ...

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Dayton Audio is the house brand of Parts Express, an American audio parts retailer founded in 1986 in Dayton, Ohio, and today based in Springboro, Ohio. The name points to that Dayton origin, and the parent firm was set up to supply affordable electr...

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dB Module is a small Dutch loudspeaker maker from Dordrecht, founded by Hans de Bakker, whose speakers are built around cast concrete enclosures. The idea behind the material is simple - a cabinet heavy and inert enough that it adds nothing of its ow...

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dCS (Data Conversion Systems) is a British maker of digital audio equipment founded in 1987 in Cambridge, England, by Oxford graduate Mike Story and a group of engineers from Cambridge Consultants. It began as a signal-conversion consultancy for avia...

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Definitive Technology is a US speaker brand started in 1990 in Owings Mills, Maryland, by Sandy Gross, Don Givogue and Ed Blaise. Its first products were monolithic bipolar towers, and towers with a built-in powered subwoofer remain the item most clo...

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DELA is the high-end audio brand of the Japanese IT group Buffalo, and the current name of what audiophiles knew as Melco. The roots go back to 1975, when Makoto Maki set up Melco in Nagoya to build and sell audio equipment. The company later turned ...

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Denafrips is a Chinese maker of digital audio components, incorporated in 2012 in Guangzhou by Mr Zhao, who had spent more than 15 years at a large OEM manufacturer before starting his own business. Its main product line is discrete R-2R resistor-lad...

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Denon is a Japanese maker of AV receivers, hi-fi components and wireless audio whose history starts in 1910, when American entrepreneur Frederick Whitney Horn set up Nippon Chikuonki Shoukai in Japan. The name itself comes from Nippon Denki Onkyo Kab...

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Deus Audio Machines is an American maker of very large infrasonic subwoofers and matching amplifiers, based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is a small specialist company whose products are built in house and aimed at dedicated cinemas, studios and seriou...

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Devialet is a French audio company founded in Paris in 2007 by Pierre-Emmanuel Calmel, Quentin Sannie and Emmanuel Nardin. It began with high-end amplifiers and grew into a wider consumer brand with wireless speakers, a soundbar, a portable speaker a...

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Founded in 2000, DeVore Fidelity is a New York speaker maker started by John DeVore, its president and chief designer. Based in Brooklyn, it is a small firm whose speakers are built by hand, and it is known above all for high-efficiency designs inten...

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Founded in Brescia in 1987, Diapason is an Italian speaker company started by Alessandro Schiavi, who still leads the company as president. Trained in organ composition at the conservatory and working as recording engineer for the Festival Pianistico...

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Diora Acoustics is the loudspeaker brand of Diora in Świdnica, south-western Poland, a name that goes back to 1946 when the Diora Radio Plants began making radio sets after the war. Today the Świdnica plant builds professional speaker cabinets at a s...

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Divaldi is a Polish audio manufacturer based in Kraków, founded in 1988, that began by designing sound systems for clubs and AV installations before turning into a series producer of home audio electronics. Its catalogue centres on compact machined-a...

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Divine Acoustics is a small family loudspeaker workshop in Ozimek, near Lake Turawa in south-western Poland, founded in 2003 by Piotr Gałkowski. Gałkowski built his first pair, the Altair, over almost three years in the late 1990s, and the business g...

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Döhmann Audio is a turntable company from Australia based in Cheltenham, Victoria, on the edge of Melbourne, led by designer Mark Döhmann. Döhmann has built turntables since 1982, when he and electronics specialist Gusew produced their first commerci...

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Dorpo is a young audio and video hardware brand whose lead designers come from the former Oppo team, with its European operation based near Chippenham in Wiltshire, England. It began with 8K UHD media players for home cinema and added its first music...

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Doshi Audio is an American maker of tube electronics, set up in 2006 by Nick Doshi after years of building audio gear for friends as a hobby. Its main products are preamplifiers, phono stages and tape preamplifiers for owners of reel-to-reel decks, a...

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DS Audio is a Japanese maker of optical phono cartridges and the equalisers that drive them, founded in 2013 by Tetsuaki Aoyagi as the analogue division of Digital Stream Corporation. It is the company that brought optical groove detection back to re...

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Duntech is an Australian loudspeaker company started in the early 1980s by the American physicist John Dunlavy and now run from Lugarno in Sydney. It is known for tall, heavy floorstanding speakers built around time and phase coherence, which have be...

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DUNU is an earphone, in-ear monitor and cable company from China, founded in 1994 and based in Dongguan in Guangdong province. The company began as an OEM and ODM supplier for large audio and telecom brands before turning to its own label, and today ...

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Dutch & Dutch is a Dutch loudspeaker company founded in 2014 with roots at Delft University of Technology, based on an innovation park between Hook of Holland and Rotterdam. It is known for the 8c, an active cardioid speaker launched in 2018 for both...

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Dynaudio is a Danish loudspeaker manufacturer founded in 1977 and based in Skanderborg. It is known for building its speakers only with drivers of its own design, and it works in three fields - home hi-fi, professional studio monitors and factory-fit...

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Dynavector Systems is a Tokyo company that has designed moving-coil phono cartridges since 1978. Alongside cartridges it makes a bi-axial tonearm, step-up transformers, phono preamplifiers and a turntable, and in Japan it also distributes Moulton sma...