Letter P — Brands

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Palmer is a German pro audio and musician equipment brand within the Adam Hall Group, based in Neu-Anspach. It began as a boutique amplifier builder and modification shop and grew into a broad line of stage and studio tools, best known for DI boxes, ...

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Panamax is an American maker of power protection and power management products for home AV systems, founded in 1975 and based in Petaluma, California. The company built its name on surge protection for consumer electronics and on being first to add a...

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Panasonic is a Japanese electronics group headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, founded by Konosuke Matsushita in 1918 and known for most of its history as Matsushita Electric. Audio is a small part of a business that also spans batteries, appliances, came...

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Pantheone Audio is a small Australian design company making sculptural wireless speakers, launched with the Pantheone I, its first product. The brand treats each speaker as an interior object as much as an audio device, and its range is limited to th...

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Paradigm is a speaker company from Canada, started in 1982 by Jerry VanderMarel and Scott Bagby and based in Mississauga, Ontario. The founders set out to design speakers on a scientific footing, drawing on audio research from the National Research C...

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Paradigm Electronics Inc. is the corporate name behind the Paradigm loudspeaker brand, a Canadian company set up in 1982 in Mississauga, Ontario, by Jerry VanderMarel and Scott Bagby. This entry lists products under the legal company name, and it ref...

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Parasound is an American electronics company founded by Richard Schram in September 1981 in the San Francisco Bay Area.It builds stereo and home theatre amplifiers, preamplifiers, processors and DACs, and its most prominent line is Halo, whose flagsh...

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Pass Labs, formally Pass Laboratories, is a US builder of solid-state amplifiers founded in 1991 by designer Nelson Pass in Auburn, California. The company is known for Class A power amplifiers and for its patented SuperSymmetry circuit, and it sells...

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Pathos Acoustics is an Italian maker of amplifiers and related electronics founded in 1994 in Vicenza, the city in northern Italy known for the buildings of Andrea Palladio. The company is recognised for its patented INPOL output circuit and for case...

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PBN Audio is a small American loudspeaker and electronics workshop founded in April 1992 by Danish-born engineer Peter Bichel Noerbaek. Based in El Cajon, near San Diego, California, it builds high-end loudspeakers, amplifiers, preamplifiers and turn...

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Peachtree Audio is an American electronics brand founded in 2007 by audio industry veterans Jim Spainhour and David Solomon, now based in Indian Trail, North Carolina. It builds integrated amplifiers, preamplifier DACs, power amplifiers and speakers ...

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Peak Consult is a Danish maker of ultra-high-end passive loudspeakers, hand-built in small numbers at its own factory in central Denmark. The company is a compact team of experienced specialists, and its range runs from the compact Sonora stand-mount...

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Pearl Acoustics is a small privately owned hi-fi company with British and Belgian roots, established in 2013 and focused on handmade equipment for home listening. It began with the Model One single-driver loudspeaker, formerly called the Sibelius, an...

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Perlisten Audio is an American loudspeaker and subwoofer maker founded in April 2016 and based in Verona, Wisconsin. It builds hi-fi and home theatre speakers, in-wall and in-ceiling models, subwoofers and amplifiers, and within its first four years ...

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Perreaux is a New Zealand maker of hi-fi amplifiers and related electronics, founded in 1974 in Napier by Peter Perreaux with an investment of about NZD 1,000. Its first product was the GS2002, a 20W integrated Class A transistor amplifier, and the f...

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Phasemation is the hi-fi brand of Kyodo Denshi Engineering Co., Ltd. of Yokohama, Japan, known for moving-coil phono cartridges, step-up transformers, phono stages and valve and solid-state amplification. The parent business started in 1970 as a make...

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Phaze Audio is a young Russian hi-fi brand that sells turntables, amplifiers, loudspeakers, cables and ready-made system sets under one name. Its products are aimed at people building a first separates system, and the company backs them with a three-...

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Philharmonic Audio is a speaker company from Vienna, Virginia, founded in 2012 by crossover designer Dennis Murphy. It sells monitors, towers and a centre channel directly, and its designs are built around Balanced Mode Radiator (BMR) drivers. Murphy...

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Philips is a Dutch technology company founded in Eindhoven in 1891 by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik to make light bulbs. In audio it introduced the Compact Cassette recorder in 1963, a format that became a world standard, and it developed an...

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Philips Fidelio is the higher-end audio line of the Philips brand, covering open-back and wireless headphones, soundbars and, from 2026, a turntable and active speakers. Since 2018 it has been developed by TP Vision, the Amsterdam company that holds ...

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Piega is a Swiss loudspeaker manufacturer founded in 1986 by Leo Greiner, Kurt Scheuch and Christian Schmid and based in Horgen near Zurich. The company is known for ribbon tweeters with very light aluminium foil membranes and for speakers in extrude...

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Pier Audio is a French maker of valve and hybrid amplifiers based near Vendôme in the Loir-et-Cher department. It was set up by three people with long experience in distributing and optimising audio brands, and the name was registered with the French...

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Pilium Audio is a Greek maker of high-power amplification founded in 2014 by Konstantinos Pilios and based in Glyfada, on the southern edge of Athens. The company builds preamplifiers, stereo and mono power amplifiers, an integrated amplifier and a D...

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Pilot is an American tube electronics brand with roots in the Pilot Electric Manufacturing Company, founded by Isidor Goldberg in Brooklyn, New York, in 1919. The original firm made radios, shortwave receivers, televisions and cinema electronics, tur...

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Pink Faun is a Dutch maker of music servers, streamers and digital output cards, based in Wageningen. The name began in the 1990s with designer Mattijs de Vries as a product line of the Triple M audio shop, and became a company in its own right in 20...

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Pioneer DJ is a Japanese brand of professional DJ equipment, run by AlphaTheta Corporation from Yokohama. The business was spun out of Pioneer Corporation in 2014 and is estimated to hold around 60 percent of the DJ market. Its CDJ media players and ...

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Pitt & Giblin is a small Australian loudspeaker workshop in Hobart, Tasmania, run by Jack Pitt and Ross Giblin. The pair have worked together for close to twenty years and build speakers in small batches, pairing their own acoustic designs with moder...

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Pivetta is the work of Andrea Pivetta, an Italian designer and inventor based in Vicenza who builds audio equipment as one-off collectible pieces. He has worked on audio design for more than four decades, and his amplifiers and loudspeakers are made ...

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Playback Designs is a high-end digital source specialist from the United States, based in Alamo, California, founded in 2008 by Andreas Koch. Koch was closely involved in the development of DSD and the Super Audio CD, and his name appears on a 1984 p...

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PMC, the Professional Monitor Company, is a British loudspeaker manufacturer established in 1991 by Peter Thomas and Adrian Loader. It builds monitors for recording and broadcast studios as well as speakers for home hi-fi and home cinema, all based o...

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Polk Audio is a US speaker company started in 1972 in Baltimore by Matthew Polk, George Klopfer and Sandy Gross, who met as students at Johns Hopkins University. Now headquartered in Carlsbad, California, it makes hi-fi and home theatre speakers, sub...

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Popori Acoustics is a Hungarian maker of full-range electrostatic loudspeakers, set up as a limited company in 2021 by designer Otto Popori and industrial designer Gábor Markó. The brand is young, yet the electrostatic know-how behind it goes back to...

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PranaFidelity is a small American audio company based in Denver, Colorado, founded and run by designer Steven Norber. It builds loudspeakers, plus a power amplifier and a preamplifier, and is essentially a one-designer operation that has shown its sy...

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Premiera is a Russian audio brand whose trademark belongs to AO Firma MMS. Under this name the company sells budget hi-fi equipment, including vinyl turntables, stereo amplifiers and loudspeakers for music and home theatre, with the Ultra series of b...

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PreSonus is an American maker of recording and live-sound gear, founded in 1995 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by Louisiana State University electrical engineering graduates Jim Odom and Brian Smith. It started in Odom's garage and grew into a broad supp...

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Primacoustic is a Canadian maker of acoustic treatment, launched in 2000 as a division of Radial Engineering Ltd. of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. It began by serving the growing home recording market and now supplies panels, clouds, baffles and ...

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PrimaLuna is a Dutch maker of vacuum-tube amplifiers, set up in 2000 by entrepreneur Herman van den Dungen with the aim of building affordable, reliable valve electronics backed by solid after-sales service. Its first products reached European buyers...

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Primare is a Scandinavian electronics brand founded in 1985 by Danish industrial designer Bo Christensen together with engineer Bent Nielsen, and now based in Sweden. Its first products, the 900 series of 1986, already paired a motorised volume contr...

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Prism Sound is a British audio engineering company founded in October 1987 in Cambridge by Graham Boswell and Ian Dennis, two electronics engineers who had met at Rupert Neve & Company. It began as a digital audio research and development consultancy...

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Pro-Ject Audio Systems is an Austrian turntable and electronics maker founded in 1991 by Heinz Lichtenegger and based in Mistelbach, Lower Austria. It started by betting on vinyl when compact disc dominated the market and grew into a record player br...

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Pro-Ject Audio is the trading name of Pro-Ject Audio Systems, the Austrian analogue specialist that Heinz Lichtenegger started in 1991. Headquartered in Mistelbach in Lower Austria, the firm launched at a moment when most of the industry had abandone...

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ProAc, from Brackley in Northamptonshire, is a British speaker company founded by Stewart Tyler in 1979, the same year its Tablette mini monitor first appeared. The company builds passive loudspeakers only, from compact stand-mounted boxes to large f...

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Prodigio Audio is a manufacturer of electrostatic loudspeaker systems. The company focuses on redefining the boundaries of electrostatic sound: its goal is to create speakers that reproduce music freely, in a balanced way, and without an imposed “cha...

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Prodigy Audio was founded by audio enthusiasts, for audio enthusiasts. With over 30 years of experience in the car audio field, our designs are all optimized through computer simulations as well as in field testing until we reach the goal that we are...

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Proficient Audio is an American speaker brand aimed at custom installation, owned by Nice North America LLC. It makes in-ceiling, in-wall and outdoor garden speakers together with powered subwoofers for home cinema and whole-house audio, and its curr...

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PS Audio, from Boulder, Colorado, is a US hi-fi manufacturer that Paul McGowan and Stan Warren founded in 1973. The company shipped its first products in 1974 and today makes amplifiers, preamplifiers, DACs, streamers, AC power regenerators and full-...

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PSB Speakers was founded in 1972 in St. Jacobs, Ontario, by Canadian Paul Barton, a classically trained violinist who taught himself acoustic design, together with friends from high school. The name joins the initials of Paul and his wife Sue. Now ba...

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PSB Speakers is a Canadian loudspeaker company started in 1972 by designer Paul Barton, and this catalog entry lists components sold under the full PSB Speakers name. The firm is headquartered in Pickering, Ontario, and belongs to Lenbrook, the Canad...

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Pula, often listed as Pula Audio, is a boutique maker of in-ear monitors that remains little known outside enthusiast circles. Its best-known model is the Unicrom, a single dynamic driver earphone that reached a wider public through a co-branded laun...

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Punch Audio is a young in-ear monitor brand that entered the market in June 2025 with the Martilo and has since added the Portazo and Patada. Every model so far is tuned around a strong sub-bass lift, and the brand reaches buyers mainly through onlin...

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Pure is a British audio brand founded in 2002 that made its name with DAB digital radios, starting with the Evoke-1. Launched on 31 July 2002 in a wood-effect MDF case with a 1960s-style grille, that radio sold out within three hours. It grew into a ...

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PureAudioProject is an Israeli maker of modular open-baffle loudspeakers, founded in 2013 by Ze'ev Schlik, with a US office in Iowa City. Its speakers ship flat-packed for home assembly, and the whole range is built on a semi-DIY idea in which driver...

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Purifi Audio is a Danish audio technology company founded in 2019 in Roskilde, near Copenhagen. Its name is mostly linked to the Eigentakt class D amplifier modules, which other manufacturers build into finished amplifiers, and it also designs loudsp...

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Pylon Audio is a Polish loudspeaker maker founded in 2011 and based in Jarocin, in the Greater Poland region. It grew out of a cabinet workshop into a complete speaker brand, and today it builds passive and active loudspeakers, home theater sets, sub...