Letter I — Brands

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iBasso Audio is a Shenzhen-based Chinese company, launched in 2006, that designs portable digital audio players, in-ear monitors and portable amplifiers. Its DX series of players is what most buyers know it for, and the firm drew early attention as o...

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ICEpower is a Danish developer and maker of class D amplifier technology, founded in 1999 and based in Soborg near Copenhagen. It began inside Bang & Olufsen and has since shipped more than 100 million amplification channels, ending up in products ra...

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Icon Audio is a British maker of valve amplifiers and related hi-fi, founded in 2000 by David Shaw and based in Leicester. Valve integrated amplifiers are its main line, led by the best-selling Stereo 40, and the company aims for affordable valve ele...

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Ideon Audio is a Greek company from Athens that builds only digital audio equipment, from DACs and streamers to master clocks and USB and network accessories. Its designs are in-house and avoid off-the-shelf modules, and the firm describes its approa...

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iFi audio is a British company launched in 2012 by Abbingdon Music Research (AMR) to bring the group's high-end circuit know-how into smaller and more affordable products. It makes DACs, headphone amplifiers, streamers, phono stages, Bluetooth receiv...

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IK Multimedia is an Italian music-technology company founded in 1996 in Modena by engineers Enrico Iori and Davide Barbi. It started out modelling classic analogue recording gear in software and grew into a maker of plug-ins, mobile interfaces, contr...

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IKEA is a Swedish home-furnishings company founded on 28 July 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, with roots in Älmhult in the province of Småland, where its first store opened in 1958. Its link to audio comes from a small group of speakers sold alongside furnit...

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Ikeda is a small Japanese cartridge and tonearm workshop, operating as Ikeda Sound Labs since 1984. Its founder had designed cartridges and tonearms from the mid-1960s at Fidelity Research and he set up the new company after Fidelity Research closed ...

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Imersiv is the hi-fi brand of Millennia Media, a pro-audio company in Diamond Springs, California, led by John La Grou, who was inducted into the NAMM Technology Hall of Fame in 2019. The brand is built around a single product, the D-1 digital-to-ana...

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Indiana Line is an Italian brand of acoustic systems specializing in the production of Hi-Fi sound.

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Inklang is a Hamburg loudspeaker workshop, registered as Inklang Lautsprecher Manufaktur GmbH, that builds passive and wireless speakers to the buyer's own configuration and sells them directly rather than through shops. Each pair is specified online...

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Innuos is a Portuguese maker of music servers, streamers and network accessories, founded in the UK in 2009 and now headquartered and producing in Faro, in the Algarve. It is known for pairing purpose-built computer hardware with its own Sense playba...

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IsoAcoustics is a Canadian maker of isolation stands, feet and mounts for loudspeakers and electronics, founded in January 2012 in Markham, Ontario. Its patented isolators are sold in more than 60 countries through separate channels for recording stu...

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IsoTek is a British specialist in mains power conditioning for hi-fi and home cinema, launched in Hampshire in 2001. The name is short for isolation technology, and the company has built only power products from the start, covering mains filters, con...

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iXOOST is an Italian maker of luxury Bluetooth sound systems built from real motorsport parts, based in Modena in the area known as Motor Valley. It turns exhausts, wheels, tyres and racing components into hand-assembled speakers, often in limited ru...