Letter N — Brands

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NACON is a French designer of gaming accessories and a video game publisher, based in Lesquin near Lille. Its roots go back to 1981 and the Bigben group, and in 2020 Bigben Interactive and Nacon were merged into a single entity trading under the Naco...

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NAD Electronics is a hi-fi electronics maker founded in London in 1972 by Dr. Martin L. Borish and now headquartered in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. Its name became widely known through the late-1970s NAD 3020, an affordable integrated amplifier desig...

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Nagaoka is a Japanese maker of phono cartridges, replacement styli and record accessories, established in 1940 as a supplier of precision parts for the watch and clock industry under the name Nagaoka Clock Parts Manufacturing. Experience with tiny je...

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Nagra is a Swiss audio brand from the Lake Geneva region, introduced in 1951 when the Polish-born inventor Stefan Kudelski created the portable audio recorder that carried the name. Nagra tape machines became standard tools for location sound, and in...

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Naim Audio is an English manufacturer of amplifiers, streamers and connected speakers, based in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Julian Vereker started Naim Audio Visual in 1969, formally incorporated it as Naim Audio in 1973 and ran the company until his death...

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Naim Audio is a British electronics company based in Salisbury, Wiltshire, whose roots go back to 1969, when founder Julian Vereker started a firm called Naim Audio Visual making sound-to-light equipment. The business took the Naim Audio name in 1973...

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NAT Audio, short for Nikic Audio Team, builds vacuum tube and hybrid amplification in Serbia. It was, founded in 1993 by Dejan Nikic in Kragujevac. The company builds phono stages, line stages, power amplifiers, integrated amplifiers and mains condit...

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Neat Acoustics is an English loudspeaker maker founded in 1989 by Bob Surgeoner, a former performing and recording musician. It began as a small hi-fi shop in Darlington, County Durham, trading as North Eastern Audio Traders, and had moved to full-ti...

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Neodio is a French hi-fi maker based in Bordeaux, founded in 2002 by Stephane Even. The company set out to design products that minimise interference inside and outside the audio component, and it has since produced around 30 designs spanning CD play...

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Network Acoustics is a British company that makes products for streaming audio systems, set up by two audio engineers including co-founder Richard Trussell. Its products aim to reduce electrical interference travelling into hi-fi equipment through Et...

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Neumann, formally Georg Neumann GmbH, is a German maker of professional audio equipment founded in Berlin in 1928 by Georg Neumann and Erich Rickmann. The name is tied above all to condenser microphones such as the U 47 and U 87, and today the compan...

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Neurable is an American neurotechnology company based in Boston, founded in 2015 by Ramses Alcaide and Adam Molnar. Its work grew out of signal processing research at the University of Michigan in 2011, and the company builds non-invasive EEG brain-c...

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Nime Audio Design, also written NIME Audiodesign, is an Italian loudspeaker maker whose speakers are designed and built in Italy. This compact Italian outfit is recognised for sculptural cabinets in steel, aluminium and HDF, ceramic drive units and f...

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Noble Audio is a US maker of in-ear monitors, formed on 15 April 2013 as Wizard Audio Industries, LLC by John Moulton, an audiologist known in the trade as the Wizard. It makes universal and custom IEMs, from wireless earbuds to multi-driver wired fl...

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Node Audio, styled NODE, is a Cambridge, England speaker brand founded in 2018 by industrial designers David Evans and Ashley May. Its first product, the Hylixa, launched in 2019, and the company is known for cabinets shaped with additive manufacturi...

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Nola is the loudspeaker brand of Accent Speaker Technology, a family firm in Holbrook, New York, set up in 2004 by Carl and Marilyn Marchisotto. It is known for open baffle dynamic speakers, from the compact Boxer up to the very large Grand Reference...

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Nord Acoustics is a British maker of Class D power amplifiers, based in Gloucester and building each unit by hand in the UK. The company works with modules from Hypex and Purifi, adding its own input buffers and casework, and sells mostly direct with...

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Nordost is a Massachusetts company making audio cables, power distribution and resonance control products, founded in 1991 by Joe Reynolds, Vincent Garino and Jeffrey Garino and based in Holliston. It is known for flat speaker cables and for conducto...

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Nothing is a London-based consumer technology company founded in October 2020 by Carl Pei, co-founder of OnePlus, together with Akis Evangelidis, David Sanmartin Garcia, Steven Gao and Levi Li. It is known for see-through product design on its phones...

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Nottingham Analogue Studio is a British maker of turntables and tonearms, with products made by hand in Sherwood Forest, England. It was created by designer Tom Fletcher, with roots going back to the 1960s, and is known for heavy turntables driven by...

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Nubert is a loudspeaker firm from Schwäbisch Gmünd in Germany, founded in 1975 by Günther Nubert as a one-man business after his electronics studies in Stuttgart. It is known for selling directly to customers online and through its own stores instead...

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NuPrime Audio is a hi-fi electronics brand started in 2014 by Jason Lim, who earlier co-founded the American company NuForce, together with a Taiwanese OEM manufacturer. The pair bought the assets of NuForce's high-end division after its consumer aud...

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NWM Audio is the consumer audio brand of NTT sonority, a Tokyo company set up in September 2021 inside Japan's NTT Group to turn the group's acoustic research into products. The brand was created in November 2022, and its products are sold under the ...