Letter H — Brands

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Hana is the moving-coil cartridge line of Excel Sound Corporation, a Japanese cartridge maker founded in 1970 by Masao Okada. Launched in 2015 and developed mainly for export, Hana marked the return of Excel Sound to selling under its own name after ...

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Hana Cartridges is a second catalog entry for the Hana phono cartridge brand made by Excel Sound Corporation of Japan. Excel Sound has designed pickups since 1970, and the Hana name was introduced in 2015 for cartridges sold mainly outside Japan. Ra...

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Harbeth is a British loudspeaker maker based in Lindfield, West Sussex, founded in 1977 by Dudley Harwood, a former senior engineer in the BBC Research Department. The company was set up to commercialise BBC loudspeaker research, and its name joins H...

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Harman Kardon is an American audio brand founded in 1953 in Westbury, New York, by Sidney Harman and Bernard Kardon, who each put USD 5,000 into the new company. It is one of the oldest names in home audio still in use, and today it covers wireless s...

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HarmonicDyne is a Chinese headphone brand that appeared around 2020 and grew through crowdfunding campaigns. It was created by Linsoul, a hi-fi retailer founded in 2016, and focuses on full-size wired headphones with unusual housings. Range & what i...

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hARt Lab is a Greek maker of high-end amplification, set up by a team of audiophiles with long backgrounds in design and engineering. Every model uses a hybrid layout, with vacuum tubes in the voltage or driver stages and MOSFET transistors at the ou...

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Head(amame) is a small Canadian headphone maker from Vancouver, British Columbia, built around 3D printing. Founded by Morgan Andreychuk, it started by selling kits and free print files so owners could print and assemble their own headphones, and it ...

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HECO is a German loudspeaker brand founded in 1949 and based today in Pulheim near Cologne. It started out building speakers for cinemas and restaurants and grew into a long-running producer of stereo, surround and custom-install speakers. Its 1965 c...

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HEDD, short for Heinz Electrodynamic Designs, is a Berlin loudspeaker and headphone maker founded in October 2015 as a family business. Its products are built in Germany and cover studio monitors, subwoofers and main speakers, together with the HEDDp...

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Heed Audio is a small Hungarian electronics maker whose first own-brand product, the Obelisk integrated amplifier, appeared in 1993. The company builds compact amplifiers, phono stages, DACs and power supplies by hand in Hungary in small batches. It ...

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Hegel Music Systems is a Norwegian electronics maker based in Oslo, whose roots go back to a 1988 university thesis on low-distortion amplification in Trondheim. It produces integrated, pre and power amplifiers, DACs, a CD player and a phono stage, a...

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Hermès, the Paris luxury house known for leather goods, entered personal audio with its first pair of headphones in 2025. They come from Hermès Ateliers Horizons, the company's division for confidential and experimental projects, and are sold as a nu...

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HiBy is a Chinese portable audio company founded in 2011 by engineers Fanoble Meng and Rick Wong. Its digital audio players are the main product, but the business started in software, writing playback solutions and the HiBy Music app for other brands...

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Hidizs is a Chinese maker of portable audio gear founded in 2009 by a group of technicians with hi-fi research and development backgrounds. It builds pocket music players, USB DAC and amplifier dongles and in-ear monitors, all aimed at affordable por...

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HiFi Rose is a South Korean audio brand launched in 2017 as a division of Citech, an industrial electronics company founded in 1967 that built public touchscreen kiosks. Based in Seoul, it makes network streamers, streaming DACs and integrated amplif...

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Hifiction is a small Swiss precision engineering company in Turbenthal that makes moving-coil phono cartridges under the X-quisite name. It describes itself as a maker of fine and micro-mechanical parts for audio, and the X-quisite line was formed in...

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HIFIMAN is a Chinese headphone and personal audio company headquartered in Tianjin, founded by materials scientist Dr. Fang Bian. It began in late 2005 as Head-Direct and took the HIFIMAN name in 2007. Planar magnetic headphones are the core of the b...

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Hisenior is an in-ear monitor company from China, set up in 2015 by Gareth Chan. It began life under the name Febos before taking its current name, and it works only in one category - universal-fit in-ear monitors aimed at stage musicians as well as ...

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Holo Audio is a Chinese company producing digital audio electronics, best known for discrete R2R DACs, designed by its founder and creative director Jeff Zhu. The Spring line has been in production since 2016, and the brand now covers converters, a p...

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Homogenix is a Polish maker of moving-coil phono cartridges, led by its president Miroslaw Piekut, that first showed its cartridges to the public at the 2024 edition of the Warsaw Audio Video Show. Its signature is a cartridge body cut from fir wood ...

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Honor is a Chinese consumer electronics brand headquartered in Futian, Shenzhen. It was created in 2013 as a Huawei brand and has operated as a separate company since November 2020. Smartphones are its main business, and since 2019 it has also sold i...

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Houchmand Audio is a German luxury audio brand founded by Marco Houchmand, known for the M1 active loudspeaker system. The system was first shown to the public at High End in Munich in 2022 and went through three more years of development before reac...

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HSE Swiss is a Swiss maker of phono preamplifiers and line preamps, founded in 1987 by development engineer Robert Huber and based in Schlieren near Zurich. The name stands for Hard & Software Engineering. The firm began in professional studio equipm...

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HTD, short for Home Theater Direct, is a Texas-based American producer of speakers and whole-house audio electronics based in Plano, Texas. The brand launched in 1998, sold its first speakers directly to consumers in January 1999 and became a separat...

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dbModule, written dB Module by its maker, is a one-person Dutch speaker workshop led by Hans de Bakker in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, known for one unusual choice - every enclosure is cast from concrete. The aim stated by the company is to keep the c...

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Huawei is a Chinese technology group founded in September 1987 in Shenzhen by former army officer Ren Zhengfei. It is best known as one of the world's largest makers of telecommunications network equipment and as a top-selling smartphone brand in Chi...

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Hyper Analogue Production is a small venture making high-end moving-coil phono cartridges, launched with a single model, the Hyper Sonic X4. The company was co-founded by four friends from the audio world - Gary Koh, president of Genesis Advanced Tec...

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Hypex Electronics is a Dutch designer and manufacturer of Class D amplifier modules, power supplies and DSP boards, founded in 1996 and based in Groningen. It supplies the HiFi, high-end and pro audio industries rather than selling finished amplifier...

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HzProject is a South Korean maker of digital source equipment for high-end systems, best known for the HzCORE, a dedicated music server built to run Roon Core. The first HzCORE went on sale in the Korean domestic market in late 2022, and an internati...