Letter S — Brands

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Salk Sound is an American loudspeaker company founded by Jim Salk in 2005 and based in Lake Orion, Michigan. It delivered speakers to customers worldwide for close to two decades and stopped accepting orders for new speakers on 15 September 2023, aft...

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Samsung Electronics is a South Korean technology company founded in January 1969 as Samsung Electric Industries and headquartered in Suwon. It is the electronics arm of the Samsung chaebol started by Lee Byung-chul, and in home audio its main product...

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Sanwa Supply is a Japanese maker of computer peripherals and accessories, based in Kita-ku, Okayama. Its roots go back to a small family factory, and the present business took shape in 1979 when the company opened Okayama's first microcomputer shop a...

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Saros Audio Systems is an American maker of tube headphone amplifiers based in Cary, North Carolina, launched in November 2025. It grew out of the headphone specialist Moon Audio and is named after the saros, the 18-year cycle that governs eclipses. ...

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SAT, short for Swedish Analog Technologies, is a small maker of tonearms and a turntable founded by engineer Marc Gomez and now based on Fuerteventura. It builds a very limited number of hand-made record playback instruments at the top end of the mar...

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Scansonic HD makes loudspeakers in Pandrup, northern Jutland, Denmark, under Dantax Radio A/S, the company behind the high-end Raidho range. Designed by Michael Børresen after more than 12 years of work on Raidho, it applies ribbon-tweeter and driver...

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Scansonic HD is a speaker label from Pandrup in northern Jutland under DANTAX Radio A/S, the Danish group that also runs Raidho Acoustics. It brings ribbon tweeters, carbon fibre and Kevlar drivers from the Raidho side of the house into stand-mount a...

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Scheu Analog is a German turntable and tonearm manufacturer whose story begins in 1985, when Thomas Scheu, a trained toolmaker and musician, built his first record player. The small company now produces mass turntables, separate motor units, single-p...

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Scheu Analogue is the alternative spelling of Scheu Analog, a German turntable workshop that goes back to 1985, when toolmaker and musician Thomas Scheu built his first record player. Today the company offers mass turntables with belt or string drive...

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Schiit Audio was started in June 2010 in the United States by Jason Stoddard and Mike Moffat. It started with two headphone amplifiers and now builds dozens of products, from headphone amplifiers and DACs to preamps, phono stages, equalizers and powe...

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SeeAudio is a Chinese maker of multi-driver in-ear monitors, set up as a branch of Hangzhou Xinyi Technologies. Its team includes engineers who previously worked for other in-ear brands, and the Yume, Neo and Kaguya were the models that opened its in...

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Seefluth Audio is a German one-man loudspeaker maker based in Bühl, Baden, founded by Michael Seefluth, who develops and builds the Qlang series of active loudspeakers by hand in small production runs. Range & what it's known for The current focus ...

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Segno is a specialist maker of moving-coil phono cartridges, known for the Maya, a design built around hand-wound silver coils and a samarium cobalt magnet. The name comes from the notation sign in sheet music that tells a player where to return when...

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Semmaa Audio is a Dutch loudspeaker maker based in Haarlem that hand-cuts and assembles its speakers in its own workshop after eight years of development. Range & what it's known for The range has three models. The entry model is a compact two-way ...

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Sendy Audio is a Chinese headphone brand founded in 2015 in Dongguan, Guangdong, as a sub-brand of Sivga Electronic Technology, and it is known for planar-magnetic headphones with handcrafted solid-wood housings. Range & what it's known for The ove...

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Senna Sound is a young Serbian audio maker focused on Class A headphone amplifiers and phono preamplifiers, best known for the Sunstone, a fully discrete headphone amplifier aimed at demanding planar-magnetic and high-impedance dynamic headphones. R...

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Sennheiser is a family-owned German audio technology company founded on 1 June 1945 by Fritz Sennheiser together with seven engineers from the University of Hannover. Based in Wedemark near Hannover, it is known for professional microphones, wireless...

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Shanling is a Chinese hi-fi manufacturer founded in 1988, with main offices in Shenzhen and its own factory in Dongguan. It began with a stereo amplifier and later became known internationally for portable digital audio players, portable DAC/amps and...

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Sharp Corporation is a Japanese electronics company founded in 1912 by Tokuji Hayakawa in Honjo, Tokyo, now headquartered in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. Its main business is televisions and displays, and it employs about 46,000 people worldwide. Audio f...

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Shelter, a Japanese phono cartridge specialist, was founded in 1986 by audio engineer Yasuo Ozawa. Every cartridge is made by hand in the company workshop northeast of Tokyo, and Ozawa personally inspects each unit before it leaves. The firm is a sma...

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Shindo Laboratory is a family business in Japan that hand-builds vacuum-tube amplifiers and preamplifiers, founded in Tokyo in 1977 by Ken Shindo, a former design engineer at Matsushita. The company works with new-old-stock and vintage parts, gives i...

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Shinjitsu Audio is a small American workshop that builds horn loudspeakers and separate horn engines by hand, with many pairs commissioned to order in a choice of wood finishes. It is a niche maker with a short catalogue rather than a volume brand. ...

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Shokz is a Chinese maker of open-ear headphones, best known for bone-conduction sports models that leave the ear canal uncovered. The company was established in 2004, entered the headphone business in October 2011 under the AfterShokz name and filed ...

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Shunyata Research is an American designer and manufacturer of power distributors, power cables and signal cables, founded in 1997 by Caelin Gabriel and based near Seattle, Washington. Its products go into home audio and video systems, recording and m...

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Shure is a Chicago-born microphone and headphone maker, established on 25 April 1925 by Sidney N. Shure, originally as The Shure Radio Company. It became a major microphone maker after building its first microphone in 1931, and its SM57 and SM58 from...

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Sigberg Audio is a small Norwegian maker of active loudspeaker systems and subwoofers, founded in April 2020 by Thorbjorn Sigberg. Every system is DSP-driven, reaches full-range bass down to 20 Hz and is sold with setup help from the designer himself...

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Silent Angel is a digital streaming brand founded in 2014 and run by Thunder Data Co., Ltd. It builds the parts of a home hi-fi network that sit before the DAC - music servers, streamers, audio-grade Ethernet switches, master clocks and linear power ...

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Silent Pound is a boutique loudspeaker maker based in Kaunas, Lithuania, founded in 2022. It builds just two passive models, the stand-mounted Silent Pound Bloom and the floor-standing Challenger II, both designed around controlled directivity - shap...

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SilentPower is a British sub-brand of iFi audio that makes noise-reduction products for power, network, USB and HDMI connections. Its range runs from small plug-in filters to rack-sized optically isolated switches, aimed at home audio, recording stud...

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Simaudio is an independent Canadian maker of high-end audio electronics, founded in 1980 and based in Boucherville, Quebec. Its products carry the MOON name, and the company sells them as MOON by Simaudio through authorised retailers. The range cover...

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SINE is a Hong Kong maker of power products for hi-fi and home cinema, operating under MIC Audio Group from Mong Kok. The brand began when a Hong Kong audiophile set out to share his own approach to system power, and its catalogue now covers power co...

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SIVGA is a Chinese headphone company founded in 2016 and based in Dongguan, best known for over-ear headphones with wooden housings made by hand. The firm describes itself as an enterprise that combines research and development, production and custom...

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Skullcandy is an American lifestyle audio brand founded in 2003 by Rick Alden and Cris Williams in Park City, Utah, where it is still headquartered. The company says it was born on a chairlift, and its headphones, earbuds and speakers were aimed from...

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Small Green Computer is an American maker of dedicated music servers and network streamers based in New Hampshire. Its owner and CEO Andrew Gillis says the company has been building and selling music servers for about a decade, and it focuses on sile...

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SME is a British maker of precision tonearms and turntables based in Steyning, West Sussex, founded in 1946 by Alastair Robertson-Aikman It began as the Scale Model Equipment Company, producing scale models and engineering parts, and moved into audio...

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SMSL is a Chinese electronics company founded in 2009, trading as S.M.S.L and registered as Foshan Shuangmusanlin Technology, that specialises in DACs, headphone amplifiers and power amplifiers. It started in Shenzhen, opened a Hong Kong branch in 20...

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Sonance is a California company that has built architectural loudspeakers since 1983, when it began shipping in-wall models and introduced what it describes as the first in-wall loudspeaker. Based in San Clemente, it designs speakers meant to disappe...

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Songer Audio is a small Oregon workshop that builds field coil loudspeakers and valve amplifiers by hand. Founded by Ken Songer it is based in Portland and makes every product in the USA. Its speakers use a single full-range electromagnetic driver wi...

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Sonner Audio is a small high-end loudspeaker maker led by designer Gunawan Surya, known as Gunny. It builds two-way and 2.5-way ported speakers with ring radiator tweeters and curved cabinets, and sells them in North America and through overseas dist...

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Sonore is an American specialist in network audio, trading under Simple Design, LLC. It builds small streaming endpoints, the Rendu series, that take music from a home network and pass it to a DAC over USB. The company says it started from one questi...

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Sonoro is a German audio company from Neuss on the Lower Rhine, founded in 2006 by Marcell Faller. It designs compact music systems, hi-fi receivers and loudspeakers under the tagline German Audio Design, and employs about 60 people. Its products pai...

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Sonos is an American maker of wireless home audio, founded in 2002 by John MacFarlane, Craig Shelburne, Tom Cullen and Trung Mai and based in Santa Barbara, California. It builds networked speakers, soundbars, subwoofers, amplifiers and headphones th...

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Sonus faber is an Italian loudspeaker maker founded by Franco Serblin and based in Arcugnano, near Vicenza, where it has handcrafted speakers for more than 40 years. Its name is tied to wooden cabinets shaped and finished like furniture, and its rang...

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Sonus Victor is a small Italian loudspeaker workshop founded in Verona by Viktor Porkalov, who works there as engineer, designer, cabinetmaker and sales manager at once. Every system is built to order, with close to 90 percent of the work done by han...

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Sony is a Japanese technology and entertainment group founded on 7 May 1946 by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, now headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. In audio it gave the world the Walkman personal stereo in 1979 and co-developed th...

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Sota is an American turntable maker founded in 1980 by David Fletcher and Robert Becker, now based in Delavan, Wisconsin. The name is an acronym of an English phrase for the newest technology of its day and was once written in capitals. The company b...

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SOtM, short for Soul Of the Music, is a Korean maker of digital audio source and infrastructure equipment, run by SOtM, Inc. from Cheonan in Chungcheongnam-do province. Its catalog covers network players and servers, audio-grade network switches, USB...

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Soulines is a Serbian turntable maker based in Belgrade, set up by a small team of trained musicians with recording, mixing and restoration experience and mechanical engineers. It grew out of tt recycled, a turntable upgrade and redesign service the ...

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SOULNOTE is a Japanese high-end audio brand from Sagamihara in Kanagawa prefecture, owned by CSR, Inc., a company formed in 2004 when it took over the wireless communications division of Nihon Marantz in a management buyout. The brand covers integrat...

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Soulution is a Swiss high-end electronics brand made by Spemot AG in Dulliken, canton of Solothurn, a firm that also designs and builds electronic devices and electric motors for the automotive industry and professional catering equipment. The brand ...

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Soulution Audio is the name under which the Swiss electronics of Spemot AG are sold, and this entry covers the same Dulliken-made products as the Soulution page in this catalog. The brand was started by Cyrill Hammer and Roland Manz, the two managing...

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Soundcore is the audio brand of Anker Innovations, the Chinese consumer-electronics group founded in 2011 by Steven Yang. Set up as a separate sub-brand on 25 April 2018, it gathers Anker's true-wireless earbuds, over-ear headphones, sleep earbuds an...

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SoundPEATS is a Chinese maker of wireless earbuds and headphones, established in Shenzhen in 2010. The brand concentrates on true-wireless earbuds sold at budget and mid-range prices, and its products now reach nearly 30 countries and regions. Its co...

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Soundsmith is an American phono cartridge maker and audio repair workshop based in Peekskill, New York, about an hour north of New York City. Established in 1972 and run for more than 50 years by owner and chief engineer Peter Ledermann, it designs f...

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Spatial Audio Lab is an American maker of open-baffle loudspeakers from Utah, founded in 2015 by designer Clayton Shaw. The company builds passive dipole speakers with no box behind the drivers and no reliance on DSP correction, and it has added tube...

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SpeakerCraft is an American brand of architectural loudspeakers, founded in 1976 by Edward Haase together with Ken and Eugene Humphreys. It is credited with pioneering the in-wall and in-ceiling speaker, which uses the building structure itself as th...

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SPEC Corporation is a Japanese audio company founded in 2010 by Shuzou Ishimi, a former director at the domestic sales subsidiary of Pioneer. It is known for Class D amplifiers built with a stated single aim, to bring the character of tube amplificat...

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Spectral Audio is a United States manufacturer of solid-state preamplifiers and power amplifiers, established in 1977 in Silicon Valley by Richard Fryer. The company is known for discrete, fully complementary, DC-coupled circuits designed for very hi...

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Spendor is a British loudspeaker manufacturer founded in 1969 by Spencer Hughes and his wife Dorothy, with the name formed from their two first names. The company grew out of BBC research into Bextrene polystyrene cones for midrange and bass drivers,...

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Sphinx is a Dutch loudspeaker brand revived by International Audio Holding, the Siltech group based in Elst in the Netherlands. The name was first acquired by Siltech in the 1980s and returned after decades of silence with two floorstanding models, E...

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Spiral Groove is an American turntable maker based in Berkeley, California, led by president and designer Allen Perkins. It builds a small range of high-end belt-drive record players and is distributed in the United States by Immedia, alongside Canal...

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Spirit Torino is an Italian headphone maker, co-founded in 2018 by engineer Andrea Ricci, that designs and builds high-end over-ear headphones in the Turin area. The brand is a small specialist working only in personal audio, and it presents itself a...

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Staccato Audio is a small Polish high-end audio company based in Szczecin, run by designer and owner Jakub Honkisz. It started with discrete operational amplifiers for upgrading existing equipment and has since moved on to complete electronics, with ...

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Starke Sound is an American loudspeaker and amplifier brand founded in Southern California in 2009 by a group of engineers, designers and audio enthusiasts. It started as a speaker company focused on multi-channel home theater and today sells passive...

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Status Audio is a New York City headphone company founded in 2014 by James Bertuzzi that now concentrates on true wireless earbuds. It sells mainly direct to customers, says more than one million people have bought its products, and designs its earbu...

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STAX is a Japanese maker of electrostatic headphones and the amplifiers that drive them, with roots going back to 1938. In 1960 it released the SR-1, the first electrostatic headphone, and it still calls its headphones earspeakers. Today it is a smal...

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SteelSeries is a Danish maker of gaming peripherals, founded in 2001 by Jacob Wolff-Petersen and based in Frederiksberg near Copenhagen. Its headsets, keyboards, mice and mouse pads are built for PC and console players, and the company has long worke...

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Steinmusic is a German high-end audio company from Mülheim an der Ruhr, founded in 1982 by Holger Stein, who started it in a workshop while studying physics and still leads development. The firm says its approach covers everything that affects music ...

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Steinway Lyngdorf is a Danish maker of luxury music and cinema systems, based in Skive in central Jutland. It grew out of the audio business Peter Lyngdorf set up in 2005, and in 2007 Steinway & Sons gave it the exclusive right to build audio product...

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Stenheim is a Swiss loudspeaker maker from the canton of Valais, founded in 2010 and now based in Vétroz in the Alpine Rhône valley. Its defining feature is the all-aluminium enclosure, which the company combines with high-efficiency drivers across e...

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Storgaard & Vestskov is a young Danish loudspeaker maker from Rønne on the island of Bornholm, founded in 2023 by Kim Storgaard and Casper Vestskov Poulsen. It is a small family-owned company that designs and builds high-end loudspeakers with all pro...

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StormAudio is a French maker of 3D surround processors, receivers and multichannel power amplifiers, based in Saint-Herblain on the edge of Nantes. It works almost entirely for the custom-installation home cinema market, where its processors handle u...

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Stratton Acoustics is a small British loudspeaker maker founded in 2019 by designer David Fowler, whose engineering consultancy Innovation Developments gave rise to the brand. Rather than coming from the audio trade, the team started as product desig...

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Studer is a Swiss professional audio brand founded in 1948 in Zurich by Willi Studer. It built oscilloscopes at first and turned to audio in 1949, going on to make multitrack tape recorders that became standard equipment in major studios and, from th...

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Sugden Audio is a British amplifier maker founded in 1967 by James Edward Sugden in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, and based in Heckmondwike since 1981. It is credited with pioneering class A amplification in domestic hi-fi. The Si 402 was built to avo...

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Sumiko is an American phono cartridge brand founded in 1972 by physicist David Fletcher, who had worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, together with two business partners. It began as an importer of audio products for the US market and...

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SUPATRAC is a British brand specializing in the manufacture of tonearms (special holders for pickup heads) for vinyl turntables. The company is known for its innovative approach to tonearm design, which has radically changed the way we think about an...

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Sutherland Engineering is an American maker of phono preamplifiers, founded by Ron Logan Sutherland, an electronics designer who earlier worked with Gayle Sanders on hybrid electrostatic loudspeakers under the Martin-Logan name. The company has spent...

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Sutherland Engineering, listed here under its full company name, is a small American workshop run by Ron Logan Sutherland that builds turntable preamplifiers and almost nothing else. Before starting it, Sutherland co-founded the Martin-Logan loudspea...

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SV-Audio is a small Danish loudspeaker maker based in Roenne on the island of Bornholm, trading as Storgaard & Vestskov ApS. It is a family-run company that designs, machines and builds all of its passive speakers in-house, and its range is limited t...

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SVEN is a consumer electronics brand registered to Oy SVEN Scandinavia Ltd in Finland, active since 1991. It started as a supplier of computer peripherals and is mainly associated with low-cost multimedia speakers, with the trademark registered in mo...

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SVS, a bass specialist from the USA, was founded in 1998 in Ohio and has its headquarters in Youngstown. It began by selling subwoofers directly to consumers online, without the traditional retail markup, and now operates across North America, Europe...

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SVS is an American subwoofer and loudspeaker company founded in 1998 in a garage in Youngstown, Ohio, by a group of audio engineers who were frustrated with the price and performance of the subwoofers they could buy. The plan from the start was to se...

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Syitren, a Chinese audio label set up in 2017, makes compact disc players, turntables and Bluetooth speakers with a strong focus on visual design. Its portable CD players, styled to appeal to younger listeners, are sold through online retail includin...

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Symposium Acoustics is an American maker of resonance control products for hi-fi systems, founded by designer Peter Bizlewicz and trading as Symposium USA, Inc. Its signature product is the Rollerblock, a ball bearing isolation footer the company int...

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Ole Witthøft founded System Audio in Roskilde, Denmark, in 1984, and the speaker company still works from that town. Witthøft started the company after asking why music at home could not come closer to the experience of a concert hall. Four decades l...

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Systemdek is a British turntable brand associated with Scotland and known since the late 1970s as one of the early makers of suspended subchassis record decks. Models such as the Systemdek IIX and the Systemdek III were big sellers in their day, offe...