Letter M — Brands

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M&K Sound is a loudspeaker and subwoofer maker that began in 1973, when Walter Becker of Steely Dan asked Ken Kreisel to build a monitoring system for the Pretzel Logic sessions. The brand is credited with the first satellite and subwoofer system, th...

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madVR Labs is an American maker of dedicated video processors for home cinemas, founded in 2019 and based in Potomac, Maryland. Its Envy processors sit between a source and a projector or display and handle HDR tone mapping, scaling and aspect ratio ...

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Magico is a Californian maker of high-end loudspeakers, set up in 2004 by Alon Wolf in Hayward, California. It builds sealed loudspeakers in machined aluminium and carbon fibre enclosures and has worked for two decades on cabinets and drivers that ad...

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Magnat is a German audio brand founded in 1973 in Cologne by Rainer Haas and now based in Pulheim, near Cologne. It began with about 60 employees and its own production, development and sales departments, became known in its early years for ribbon tw...

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Magnepan is a loudspeaker manufacturer from the United States, started in 1969 by engineer Jim Winey and based in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Its speakers, sold under the Magneplanar name and nicknamed Maggies by owners, avoid cones and domes entirel...

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Magnetar is an independent Chinese brand of universal disc players. Its first model, the UDP800, arrived in December 2022 and plays Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray, DVD, DVD-Audio, CD and SACD from one tray. A second, higher-end player, the UDP...

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Majority is a British home audio brand founded in Cambridge, England, in 2012 by Eddie Latham and PJ Scott. It began as Velocity Outlet, a side business selling products on eBay, and launched its first own product, the Verb wireless speaker, in 2014....

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Manger Audio is a German loudspeaker company based in Mellrichstadt in northern Bavaria, built around one invention, the Manger sound transducer, or MSW. Inventor Josef W. Manger filed his first loudspeaker patent in 1968 after returning from Austral...

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Manley Laboratories is a California manufacturer of valve electronics, founded in 1988 in Chino, California, by David and EveAnna Manley. It began with tube power amplifiers and preamplifiers for home listening, then from 1990 moved strongly into rec...

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Manley Labs is the tube electronics maker based in Chino, California, set up in 1988 by David Manley and EveAnna Manley. It works in two markets at once - recording and mastering studios on one side, home hi-fi on the other - and both product familie...

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Manunta picks up the legacy of a brand, M2Tech, founded in 2007 by Nadia Marino and Marco Manunta.

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Marantz is an audio and home cinema electronics brand that began in 1953 in Queens, New York, after Saul Marantz built his first product, the Consolette preamplifier, at home in Kew Gardens in 1952. Today it is run from Carlsbad, California and Osaka...

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March Audio is a small Australian maker of class D power amplifiers and loudspeakers, founded in 2018 by engineer Alan March and based near Gingin in Western Australia. Its amplifiers use Purifi modules developed by Bruno Putzeys, and its stated aim ...

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Margules is a Mexican family audio company based in Mexico City, founded in 1925 by Jacob Margules, a European engineer who settled in Mexico. It is now run by the fourth generation of the family and its main products are tube amplifiers, above all t...

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Mark Levinson is an American high-end electronics brand founded in 1972 by audio engineer Mark Levinson in Woodbridge, Connecticut, and now based in Stamford, Connecticut. The first products were designed by John Curl under Levinson's supervision. Th...

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Marten is a Swedish loudspeaker maker from Gothenburg, set up in 1998 by Leif Mårten Olofsson as a family business. It builds passive floorstanding and standmount speakers only, every series named after a jazz musician, and its catalog runs from comp...

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Marten Design is the earlier name of Marten, the loudspeaker company that Leif Mårten Olofsson founded in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1998. This page covers the same family firm and the same jazz-named speaker families, listed under the older trading name...

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MartinLogan is an American loudspeaker company from Lawrence, Kansas, founded in 1979 by Gayle Martin Sanders and Ron Logan Sutherland, whose middle names form the brand. Its signature products are hybrid electrostatic speakers that pair a thin-film ...

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Master & Dynamic is a New York City headphone and audio brand founded by Jonathan Levine and launched in 2014. It makes over-ear and on-ear headphones, true wireless earphones and one wireless speaker, built from leather, stainless steel and anodized...

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Master Fidelity is a Canadian digital audio maker in Vancouver, trading as Merging Fidelity Inc. and set up in 2015. Its team co-developed the original NADAC converter sold from 2015 by Merging Technologies of Switzerland. When Sennheiser bought Merg...

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MastersounD is a small Italian maker of valve amplifiers, founded in 1994 by Cesare Sanavio together with his sons Lorenzo and Luciano and based in Arcugnano in the province of Vicenza. The firm grew out of Cesare's long career in audio design and co...

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Matrix Audio is a Chinese digital audio company based in Xi'an, where three former classmates who had built loudspeakers together started the business in 2006. Its first product that year was the DA-100Plus DAC, and the mini-i DAC introduced in 2009 ...

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MBL is a German maker of loudspeakers and electronics, founded in Berlin in 1979 by Wolfgang Meletzky with partners Bieneke and Lenhard. The company is known for the Radialstrahler, an omnidirectional loudspeaker whose drivers radiate through 360 deg...

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McIntosh Laboratory is an American maker of amplifiers and audio electronics, founded in 1949 by Frank H. McIntosh and Gordon Gow in Silver Spring, Maryland, and based in Binghamton, New York, since 1951. It is known for black glass front panels and ...

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Meitner Audio is a Canadian digital converter brand based in Calgary, Alberta, and the lower-priced brand of EMM Labs. Both carry the name of Ed Meitner, an Austrian-born engineer who moved to Canada in 1969 and founded EMM Labs, whose name comes fro...

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Melodika is a Polish maker of audio-video cables and loudspeakers, active since 2010. The firm describes itself as one of the larger Polish producers in both categories and positions its products around value, promising practical engineering rather t...

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Merason is a Swiss maker of digital-to-analogue converters founded in 2013 by Daniel Frauchiger. Its first DAC was originally sold under the Purson name, and in 2019 the brand was renamed Merason with no change to the hardware. The company works on a...

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Merging Technologies is a Swiss developer of professional digital audio hardware and software, founded in 1990 in Puidoux in the canton of Vaud. It is known for the Pyramix workstation and for networked converters used in recording, mastering and bro...

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Meridian Audio is an English company building digital audio products, founded in 1977 by Bob Stuart and Allen Boothroyd, first trading as Boothroyd-Stuart. Based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, it released the MCD in 1985, described as the first audio...

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Metaxas & Sins is a high-end audio maker founded in Melbourne, Australia in September 1981 by Kostas Metaxas, then trading as Metaxas Audio Systems. It is known for sculpted, hand-built electronics, tape recorders and electrostatic headphone amplifie...

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Metronome Technologie is a French maker of digital sources, founded in 1987 and based in Montans, a small town near Albi in the Tarn department of southern France. It builds CD and SACD players, D/A converters and streaming clients, and it runs Kalis...

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Meze Audio is a Romanian headphone company founded in 2011 by industrial designer Antonio Meze and based in Baia Mare, in the northwest of the country. Meze began shaping the idea in 2009 while travelling for design work. The brand makes dynamic and ...

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Micca is a budget home audio brand whose products are designed in the USA and sold mainly online. Its catalogue covers passive and powered bookshelf speakers, centre speakers, in-ceiling speakers, compact amplifiers and USB DACs, and it also offers d...

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Michell Audio is the current trading name of J.A. Michell Engineering, the turntable maker from Borehamwood in England that John Michell set up in 1966. Under this name the family firm presents its decks, tonearms, cartridges and power supplies after...

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Michell Engineering is a British turntable maker founded in 1966 by John Michell and based in Borehamwood, north of London. The company started out making film models and precision parts, worked on models for Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey, a...

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Michi is the high-end electronics line of Rotel, the hi-fi company started by Tomoki Tachikawa in Tokyo in 1957. The name means road or path in Japanese. Rotel first used it in 1991 for an upmarket range aimed at the domestic Japanese market, ended i...

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Micromega is a French electronics maker founded in 1987 by Daniel Schar in the Paris region. Its first product, the CDF1-Hitech, was a top-loading CD player under a clear plexiglass cover, and the 1988 CDF1-Digital split the player into a separate tr...

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Founded in 1977, Mission is a British speaker maker started by Farad Azima in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. It made its name with the 770 of 1978 and with a driver layout that put the tweeter below the woofer. Nearly five decades later it is part of th...

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MIT Cables, short for Music Interface Technologies, is a US cable company founded in 1984 by Bruce Brisson. It is known for cables that carry passive networks in a box along their length, and the range covers interconnects, speaker cables, power, dig...

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Miyajima Laboratory is a small workshop in Japan producing moving-coil phono cartridges, founded by Noriyuki Miyajima in Fukuoka in 1980. It is known for its patented cross ring method and for building both stereo and dedicated mono cartridges with w...

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ModalAkustik is a small loudspeaker workshop from Pulheim near Cologne in Germany, run by its founder and owner Michael Wydra. The name refers to the room modes that every listening room has, the peaks and dips in the bass that make reproduction boom...

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ModWright Instruments is an American high-end audio company founded in 2000 by Daniel G. Wright and based in Amboy, Washington. It builds tube preamplifiers, tube phono stages, solid-state power amplifiers and a hybrid integrated amplifier, all devel...

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MoFi Electronics is the hardware division of Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, the Chicago-based audiophile record label launched in the 1970s. Since 2016 it has offered analogue playback gear covering the chain from cartridge to loudspeaker, with turntable...

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Mola Mola is a high-end electronics company from in Groningen in the north of the Netherlands, producing audio gear since 2011. It was founded by Jan-Peter van Amerongen, who started the class D module specialist Hypex in 1996, together with Belgian ...

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Monitor Audio is a speaker manufacturer from Britain, started in 1972 by Mo Iqbal in Cambridge, England. Now headquartered in Rayleigh, Essex, it builds hi-fi speakers, subwoofers, architectural models and a smaller range of electronics, from compact...

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Monoprice is an American online retailer and private-label brand founded in 2002 by Jong Lee and based in Rancho Cucamonga, California. It sells cables, adapters, HDMI products, home theater gear, computer accessories and professional audio equipment...

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MOON by Simaudio is a high-end audio electronics manufacturer from Canada, established in 1980 and independent ever since. Its range covers network players, integrated and power amplifiers, preamplifiers, DACs, phono stages, headphone products and CD...

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Moondrop is a Chinese audio brand established in 2015 by Chengdu Shuiyueyu Technology Co., Ltd., based in Chengdu, Sichuan. Best known for wired in-ear monitors, it now also makes headphones, true wireless earbuds, portable DAC and amplifier units, C...

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Mordaunt-Short is a British loudspeaker brand founded in 1967 when Norman Mordaunt and Rodney Short joined forces at Durford Mill in Petersfield, England. Over more than five decades it has produced passive stereo and surround speakers for home use, ...

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MOREaudio is a Polish audio electronics company whose first product is the CS100 integrated amplifier, designed by Tomasz Dębski. It is a small specialist maker, and for now its public identity rests on this single model. Range & what it's known for...

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Morel is an Israeli maker of loudspeaker drive units and complete speakers, founded in 1975 by Meir Mordechai and based in Ness Ziona. The name is built from Mordechai Electro-acoustics. The company works on three fronts at once - raw drivers sold to...

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Morgan Acoustics is a small British loudspeaker company run by Dan Morgan, a Scottish engineer with a master's degree in aerospace technology from Leeds University, helped by his father. Its first model, the Ten-12, appeared at the Bristol HiFi Show ...

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Motorola is an American consumer electronics brand best known for phones, run today by Motorola Mobility in Chicago. In January 2026 at CES it introduced the moto sound flow, its first standalone portable speaker, released under the moto things acces...

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MSB Technology is a Californian maker of digital-to-analog converters and amplifiers, founded in 1986 by Larry Gullman and now led by his sons Jonathan and Daniel. The company spent its early years on contracted research in digital product developmen...

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Musetec Audio is a Chinese maker of DACs and preamplifiers based in Shenzhen. The company started in 2013 as L.K.S Audio, building a string of converters from the MH-DA002 to the MH-DA005, and launched the Musetec name in 2019. The MH-DA006, develope...

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Music First Audio is a small British maker of transformer-based preamplifiers, moving coil step-up transformers and a phono amplifier, based in Rye, East Sussex. The company was formed in 2002 by Jonathan Billington, whose family firm Stevens & Billi...

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Music Hall is an American turntable brand founded in spring 1985 by Roy Hall and based in Great Neck, New York. Its main line is the MMF series of belt-driven record players, built for the company in the Czech Republic, which runs from entry-level de...

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Musical Fidelity was started in London in 1982 by Antony Michaelson, a professional clarinettist who built its first product, The Preamp, on his kitchen table. Over four decades the company has made amplifiers, DACs, CD players, streamers and phono s...

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Musician Audio is a Chinese electronics brand established in 2020 and based in Shenzhen, Guangdong. It concentrates on R-2R ladder DACs built from discrete resistor networks, and its research team is made up of enthusiasts with more than 20 years of ...

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Musicnote is the brand of Musicnote Electronics Co., Ltd., a privately owned Chinese maker of CD players based in the Xinhui District of Jiangmen, Guangdong. Its engineers claim nearly 20 years of experience in audio product design, and the range als...

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Mutec is a Berlin company founded in 1989 by Christian Peters that builds master clocks, audio reclockers, format and sample rate converters, USB interfaces and digital cables. Its equipment works in radio and television facilities, recording and mas...

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My Sonic Lab is a Japanese cartridge company specialising in moving coil designs, founded in 2003 by cartridge designer Yoshio Matsudaira, with the first products introduced in 2004. It is a small specialist firm built around one person's long engine...

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Myryad Systems is a privately owned British electronics maker based in Waterlooville, Hampshire, founded in 1995 by Chris, Dave and Lynn Evans. It is known for amplifiers, CD players, preamplifiers and tuners, and around 90 per cent of its production...

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Mytek Digital is a New York maker of digital to analogue converters, headphone amplifiers, streamers and power amplifiers, founded in 1992 by engineer Michal Jurewicz. It began as a supplier of converters to the professional recording industry and mo...

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Mytek Digital is the same New York digital audio company that this catalog also lists simply as Mytek. Michal Jurewicz set it up in New York City in 1992, and for its first two decades it made converters for recording studios before turning to home D...