Letter E — Brands

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EarFun is a Chinese consumer audio brand founded in October 2018 in Shenzhen, Guangdong, by a group of industrial designers and acoustic engineers. It sells wireless earbuds, headphones and portable Bluetooth speakers at mass-market prices, mostly th...

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EarMen is a Serbian brand of DACs, headphone amplifiers and compact streaming components, launched in 2020 as the portable and desktop offshoot of Auris Audio. Its products are built in Krusevac, Serbia, and cover everything from USB dongles to a sta...

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Echo Diastasis is a small Greek audio company founded by Georgios Loutridis, a former basketball player who also works as a guitarist and composer. It builds a compact family of four electronics, each carrying the number 79 taken from his old jersey ...

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Econik Speakers is a German maker of fully active loudspeakers based in Sulzfeld, Baden-Wuerttemberg. It sells directly to buyers, runs showrooms in Berlin and at its home site, and builds floorstanding, compact and centre models with built-in amplif...

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Edifier is a Chinese audio company founded in Beijing in May 1996 by Wen Dong Zhang. It builds desktop and bookshelf speakers, headphones, earbuds, gaming audio and studio monitors, sells through online and high-street retail in more than 70 countrie...

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Edwards Audio is a British turntable brand created in 2009 by Kevin Edwards, founder of TALK Electronics. It builds belt-drive record players, phono stages and speed controllers, offered in a choice of acrylic colours and all designed and manufacture...

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EgglestonWorks is a loudspeaker maker from Memphis, Tennessee, known for heavy, hand-finished floorstanding and stand-mount speakers built in its own workshop. The company came to wide attention in the mid-1990s with the original Andra, its first pro...

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Einstein Audio Components is a Bochum-based German maker of high-end electronics, founded in 1988 by Volker Bohlmeier and Rolf Weiler. Its core work is tube and hybrid amplification, including output-transformerless (OTL) tube power amplifiers, and i...

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Einstein Audio Components is the full company name of the Bochum electronics workshop that also appears in this catalogue as Einstein Audio. The firm traces its start to 1988, when Volker Bohlmeier and Rolf Weiler joined forces, and to its first ampl...

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ELAC is a German loudspeaker company from Kiel, founded on 1 September 1926 as Electroacustic GmbH. It began with sonar research and underwater acoustics, entered consumer audio in 1948 with the PW1 record player and is now known mainly for loudspeak...

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Electric Audio, written EA Electricaudio, is a young German amplifier brand from Renningen near Stuttgart, set up as an offshoot of the loudspeaker maker Gauder Akustik. It made its debut at the High End show in Munich in 2025 with two solid-state am...

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Electrocompaniet is a Norwegian maker of hi-fi electronics, founded in 1973 by Per Abrahamsen and Svein Erik Børja and based today in Tau, near Stavanger. The founders set out to build transistor amplifiers free of transient intermodulation distortio...

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Eleven Audio is a small independent Taiwanese maker of headphone amplifiers, DACs and compact amplifiers, founded in 2016 by designer Michael Xiao. The brand first traded as XI AUDIO, moved to Taiwan in 2018 and later took its current name. It remain...

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Elipson is a French loudspeaker brand whose story begins in 1938 with Multi-Engine, a maker of toy engines for miniature electric trains. Joseph Léon, born in Bordeaux in 1908 and trained as an engineer at the School of Arts and Crafts, became CEO in...

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Eltax is a loudspeaker brand founded in 1959 in Herning, in the Jutland region of Denmark, by Ingemann Marius Nielsen. It started as a retailer before moving into manufacturing, and the company later operated as Eltax A/S in Aulum. Over more than six...

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EMM Labs is a Canadian maker of digital converters, transports and amplification, established in 1998 in Calgary, Alberta, by engineer Ed Meitner. Born in Austria, Meitner moved to Canada in 1969 and worked on the first fully automated studio mixing ...

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Emotiva Audio is an American electronics maker based in Franklin, Tennessee, founded in 2003 by engineer Dan Laufman. Its core products are power amplifiers, stereo preamplifiers and home cinema processors sold directly to buyers online, with sales a...

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Empire Ears was a US company building in-ear monitors in custom and universal fit based in Norcross, Georgia. It was formed in late 2015 when Jack Vang, previously owner of EarWerkz, joined his father Dean Vang, whose company worked on hearing aids a...

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EMT is a German-founded maker of moving-coil phono cartridges whose roots go back to 1938, when Wilhelm Franz set up Elektromesstechnik Wilhelm Franz KG in Berlin. The firm built control and measurement equipment for radio and later became a supplier...

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Energy is a Canadian loudspeaker brand that dates back to 1973. It was one of the lines of Audio Products International Corp. (API) of Toronto, a speaker maker that also owned Mirage, Athena Technologies and Spherez and sold in more than 50 countries...

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Engström is a Swedish maker of vacuum tube amplifiers, founded in 2008 by engineer Lars Engström and his nephew Timo, an industrial designer. The company is based in Malmö in the south of Sweden and builds a small, tightly focused range of preamplifi...

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EnKlein is an American maker of audio, power and grounding cables, founded in 2008 by brothers Tom and Dave Kleinbeck in Lee's Summit, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. Its first solid silver cables appeared in 2009, and the company still builds by ...

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Eon Art is a high-end Canadian company building hybrid amplifiers, converters and loudspeakers, led by its founder and chief designer Stéphane Hautcoeur. The company works from Chandler in eastern Quebec and specialises in amplifiers that pair a tube...

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Episode is an architectural loudspeaker brand of Snap One, the custom-installation supplier formerly known as SnapAV and now part of ADI Global. Its speakers mount in walls, ceilings and outdoor spaces for distributed audio and home cinema, sold thro...

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Epos is a British loudspeaker maker founded in 1983 by Robin Marshall and based in Hemel Hempstead. It builds hi-fi and home cinema speakers, and since 2020 has been run by German speaker designer Karl-Heinz Fink, who restarted the range with new des...

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Equator Audio is a studio monitor maker from San Diego, California, started by Ted Keffalo after Event Electronics, which he had co-founded in 1995, was sold in 2006. Its known product is the D5, a compact powered nearfield monitor for home and proje...

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Erzetich Audio is a Slovenian boutique maker of headphone amplifiers, headphones and accessories, set up in 2012 by Blaž Erzetič in Trnovo, close to the Italian border. It is a small personal-audio workshop rather than a factory, and its products are...

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ESD Acoustic is a Chinese high-end audio company from Hangzhou that builds all-horn loudspeaker systems, its own electronics and a headphone. The operating company, ESD Acoustic (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., was registered in June 2017 in the Binjiang Distri...

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ESI is a German maker of audio interfaces, studio monitors and MIDI controllers for computer-based recording, based in Leonberg near Stuttgart. Its roots go back to 1998, when Claus Riethmüller founded RIDI multimedia GmbH to distribute professional ...

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Esoteric is the top-tier label of TEAC Corporation of Japan, launched in 1987 for the company's most ambitious products. It is known above all for disc playback, with SACD and CD transports, players and DACs, and it also builds amplifiers and network...

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Estelon is an Estonian loudspeaker maker founded in Tallinn in 2010 by designer and engineer Alfred Vassilkov together with his daughters Alissa and Kristiina. It is known for floorstanding and compact speakers with curved, sculptural cabinets cast f...

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Etsuro Urushi is a Japanese moving-coil phono cartridge series created in 2016 as a joint project of Excel Sound Co., Ltd., a maker of MC cartridges for more than half a century, and the trading house Dai-Ichi Shoji Co., Ltd. Each body is finished by...

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European Audio Team (EAT) is a Czech-based maker of turntables, tonearms, phono stages, tube amplifiers and its own vacuum tubes. It was formed in the late 1990s by Jozefina Lichtenegger and its main products are handmade 300B and KT88 valves and a g...

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EVE Audio is a Berlin company that designs and builds active studio monitors and subwoofers. It was founded in May 2011 by Roland Stenz, who had earlier founded and run ADAM Audio from 1999 to 2010. The range now covers nearfield, midfield and main m...

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Event Electronics is an American maker of active studio monitors, set up in 1995 in Santa Barbara, California. Its first product, the 20/20 nearfield monitor released the same year, launched the brand internationally, and the line later passed to the...

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Eversolo is a Chinese brand of network streamers, DACs and amplifiers based in Shenzhen. It was set up as the high-end audio arm of Zidoo Technology, a Shenzhen electronics company established in 2014, and its first player, the DMP-A6, reached the ma...

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Evolution Acoustics is an American loudspeaker maker based in San Diego, California, founded in 2002 by Jonathan Tinn and designer Kevin Malmgren. Its current work centres on the SYSTEM line, the result of a research programme the company began in 20...

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Excalibur is the house cartridge label of TAD Audiovertrieb, an audio distribution company from Upper Bavaria in Germany. The brand offers a compact family of moving-coil cartridges, sold in both high-output and low-output versions, and ranks its mod...

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Exposure Electronics is an amplifier and CD player manufacturer from England, set up in 1974 in Hove, West Sussex, as a hi-fi shop by engineer John Farlowe. Four debut Exposure products appeared in 1977, starting with the Exposure I loudspeaker, and ...

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Extraudio is a Dutch high-end electronics maker founded in 2008 in Leidschendam, near The Hague in the province of South Holland. Its founders came from professional audio, video and broadcasting, and the company now builds amplifiers, preamplifiers,...