Letter K — Brands

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Kaiser Acoustics is the loudspeaker and acoustics division of Kaiser GmbH, a family-owned German joinery founded in 1948 as a carpentry workshop in Untergriesbach, Lower Bavaria. Under the Kawero! name it builds passive loudspeakers ranging from smal...

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Kaleidescape is an American maker of movie players and servers for high-end home cinemas, founded in February 2001 in Mountain View, California, by Michael Malcolm, Dan Collens and Cheena Srinivasan. Its hardware is tied to its own online movie store...

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Kali Audio is an American maker of powered studio monitors, launched in January 2018 by a team of former JBL Professional staff including acoustics director Charles Sprinkle and marketing director Nate Baglyos. Based in the Los Angeles area, it began...

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Kaliber Technology is a young loudspeaker maker known so far for a single statement product, the Ulysse X5, a four-way floorstanding system whose enclosure is CNC-milled from solid magnesium blocks and plates. The company presents it as the first lou...

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Kalista is the top-tier digital-source brand of Métronome Technologie, a French maker of CD and SACD players, transports and DACs based in Montans near Albi in southern France. Métronome dates from 1987, and Kalista was started at the beginning of th...

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Kanto Audio is a Canadian maker of powered speakers, subwoofers, stands and turntables, founded in January 2007 by David Reid and headquartered in Langley, British Columbia. The company is known for compact self-amplified bookshelf and desktop speake...

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Karan Acoustics is a Serbian maker of high-end amplifiers and phono stages, founded in 1986 by Milan Karan in Novi Sad and celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026. The firm started out servicing medical and TV broadcasting equipment, turned to audio...

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Keces Audio is a Taiwanese maker of linear power supplies, power conditioners and audio electronics, operated by Hui Kang Electronic Co., Ltd. from Banqiao in New Taipei City. Its main product line is the Pier series of low-noise linear DC supplies d...

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KEF is a British loudspeaker company founded in 1961 in Maidstone, Kent, by Raymond Cooke and Robert Pearch. Its signature design is the Uni-Q coincident driver, introduced in 1988 and now in its twelfth generation, and for being the first loudspeake...

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Kefine Audio is a young Chinese in-ear monitor maker founded in 2022 in the Shenzhen region. The name joins Ke, taken from the founder's name, with the word refine. The brand works in the affordable segment and keeps packaging simple to hold costs do...

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Kennerton Audio Equipment is a Russian headphone maker based in Saint Petersburg, set up as the luxury brand of Fischer Audio by people from that company. It builds full-size headphones with planar magnetic and dynamic drivers, wooden earcups and Nor...

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Kensington Audio is a British maker of moving coil phono cartridges, named after the Kensington district of London. It made its public debut at the UK Hi-Fi Show Live in Ascot in September 2025 with a complete five-model range, and it builds nothing ...

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Kerr Acoustic is a small British loudspeaker company founded by designer Jes Kerr, a session musician and music producer who spent years collecting, restoring and modifying speakers before building his own. All of its models use transmission line bas...

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Kharma, from Breda, builds high-end loudspeakers, cables and amplifiers in the Netherlands. The story starts in 1982, when Charles van Oosterum founded O.L.S. (Oosterum Loudspeaker Systems), and the Kharma name followed in 1993 as the export-oriented...

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Kin by Totem is the powered and wireless speaker sub-brand of Totem Acoustic, the Canadian loudspeaker maker founded in 1987 by Vince Bruzzese. Kin was set up in 2015 to bring Totem engineering to a younger audience at a lower price, and its stated a...

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Kinera is a brand of in-ear monitors made in Dongguan, Guangdong province, by the Chinese company Dongguan Yutai Electronic Co., Ltd. Its roots lie in an electro-acoustic research centre founded in 2010 that developed balanced armature drivers and ea...

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KLAUDIO is a maker of ultrasonic record cleaners, turntables and tangential tonearms, founded in 2013 by Peter Cheon as a sister business of Koolance, the liquid cooling manufacturer he set up in 2000. The brand drew on Koolance experience with water...

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KLH is a loudspeaker brand from the United States, started in 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the name KLH Research and Development Corporation. The three letters stand for its three founders - Henry Kloss, Josef Anton Hofmann and Malcolm S. ...

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KLH Audio is an American loudspeaker brand founded in 1957 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Henry Kloss, Malcolm S. Low and Josef Anton Hofmann, whose initials form the name. After decades of changing owners the name was revived in 2018 by former Klip...

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Klipsch is a loudspeaker company from the United States, founded in 1946 in Hope, Arkansas, by Paul W. Klipsch, who started the business as Klipsch and Associates to build his corner horn design. Now headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, the compan...

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Koetsu is a hand-built cartridge brand from Japan, created in the 1970s by Yoshiaki Sugano (1907-2002), a former boxer, sword maker, artist and Toyota executive who began by fitting his own parts into commercial cartridges. Every Koetsu is hand-assem...

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Kolster-Brandes was a British maker of radios and home audio equipment, based at Foots Cray near Sidcup in Kent. It grew out of Brandes, a Canadian company founded in Toronto in 1908, whose British arm opened in Slough in 1924 to make headphones. The...

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Kondo, formally Kondo Audio Note or Audio Note Japan, is a Japanese maker of tube electronics, cartridges and transformers founded in 1976 by Hiroyasu Kondo after he left Sony. It started in a 50-square-meter garage, was incorporated in 1979, and bec...

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Kora is an amplifier and source manufacturer from the Toulouse area of France, founded in 1990 by engineers who had worked on power supplies and signal processing for Aerospatiale. The brand built its name in the 1990s with tube and hybrid amplifiers...

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Korf Audio is an Austrian maker of tonearms and headshells based in Klosterneuburg, just outside Vienna. Co-founded by designer Alexey Korf, it is a small specialist that concentrates entirely on the arm of a turntable and the parts around it, and it...

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Koss Corporation is an American headphone company headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. John C. Koss started the business in 1953 as a hospital television rental firm, and in 1958 it introduced the SP/3 Stereophones, which had a privacy switch and a...

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Krell Industries is a Connecticut high-end electronics company headquartered in Orange, Connecticut. Dan D'Agostino and Rondi D'Agostino, both formerly at Mark Levinson Audio Systems, founded it in 1980. The firm became known for high-current solid-s...

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Krix is an Australian loudspeaker manufacturer based in Hackham, in the southern suburbs of Adelaide. Scott Krix founded it in 1974 after an electronic engineering degree, building speakers in his garage. It now works in two markets at once, home aud...

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KRK Systems is a United States brand of powered studio monitors, founded in 1986 by film mix engineer Keith Rowland Klawitter, whose initials gave the company its name. Its signature product is the Rokit series with its yellow woofer cones, a line la...

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Kroma Atelier is a Spanish high-end loudspeaker maker from Granada, run by a father-and-son team whose speaker design experience spans half a century. Its speakers are handcrafted in Spain and built around cabinets made of Krion, a dense mineral soli...

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Kronos Audio is a Canadian turntable maker from Montreal, founded by Louis Desjardins and known for belt-driven decks with two counter-rotating platters on a suspended chassis. The design aims to cancel the torsional energy that a single spinning pla...

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Kudos Audio is a British loudspeaker company based in Willington, County Durham, founded in 2006 by Derek Gilligan, who earlier designed the Neat Petite at Neat Acoustics. It builds passive standmount and floorstanding speakers, and has recently made...

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Kudos Audio, listed here as a separate entry, is the same loudspeaker company from Willington in County Durham, England, that Derek Gilligan set up in 2006. This page covers catalog items filed under the full company name. Range & what it's known fo...

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Kuzma is a Slovenian maker of turntables, tonearms and phono cartridges, founded in 1982 by mechanical engineer Franc Kuzma and based in Kranj. The company began with the Stabi turntable and Stogi tonearm, and in 1985 it opened sales in Japan, a mark...

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Kyron Audio is an Australian maker of active dipole loudspeaker systems, founded by Lee Gray and Leon Suter. Both are classically trained musicians who played in the Air Force Band, Suter on clarinet and Gray on percussion. Their first system, the Ga...