Letter V — Brands

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V-MODA is a headphone brand founded in 2004 by Val Kolton and headquartered in Hollywood, California. It was one of the first makers to treat high-fidelity headphones as a fashion object, and since 2019 it has been fully owned by the Japanese instrum...

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VAC, short for Valve Amplification Company, is a tube electronics company from the United States, started in 1990 by Kevin Hayes and his father Channing W. Hayes in Sarasota, Florida. The company builds preamplifiers, power amplifiers and integrated ...

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VAF Research is an Australian loudspeaker maker founded in 1978 by entrepreneur Philip Vafiadis and based in Adelaide, South Australia. It designs and builds its own bookshelf, floorstanding and centre speakers along with subwoofers, and sells them l...

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Valco is a Finnish headphone company founded in 2018 by Henri Heikkinen and Jani Rajaniemi. It makes noise-cancelling wireless headphones, earbuds and Bluetooth speakers that are designed to be repaired rather than replaced. The name is borrowed from...

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Vanatoo is an American maker of powered stereo speakers based in the Seattle area and founded by Gary Gesellchen and Rick Kernen. It sells direct to buyers and offers a small range of active bookshelf and desktop speaker pairs that act as complete sy...

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Vandersteen Audio is an American loudspeaker and electronics maker based in Hanford, California, run by designer Richard Vandersteen. Its Model 2, in continuous production since 1977, has sold well over 100,000 pairs, and the Model 1 has stayed in th...

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Velodyne Acoustics is a subwoofer specialist founded by David Hall in Silicon Valley in 1983 and based in Hamburg, Germany, since its 2019 sale. Its breakthrough was the ULD-18, a servo-controlled subwoofer launched in 1983 that used an accelerometer...

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Venture Audio is a high-end loudspeaker maker founded in 1986 by physicist Njoo Hoo Kong, known as Didi, with offices in Brasschaat, Belgium, and in Singapore. Its passive and active speakers are built around first-order crossovers and drivers the co...

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Verity Audio is a small loudspeaker company from Quebec City, Canada, set up by engineers Bruno Bouchard and Julien Pelchat after both had worked in research and development at Oracle. Its first model, the Parsifal, has been used in recording and mas...

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Vertere Acoustics is a London analogue specialist founded by engineer Touraj Moghaddam, who earlier worked at Roksan. It builds turntables, tonearms, motor drives, phono cartridges, phono preamplifiers and cables, and also handles UK distribution of ...

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Vestlyd is a Danish loudspeaker and turntable brand launched in 2021 and engineered on the west coast of Denmark. The name joins the Danish words for west (vest) and sound (lyd). It was created around the idea of old-school monitor-type speakers that...

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Vicoustic is a Portuguese maker of acoustic treatment and sound insulation products, founded in 2007 with the aim of combining acoustic performance with interior design. Its panels, bass traps, diffusers and booths are sold in more than 70 countries ...

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JVC is a Japanese electronics brand founded on 13 September 1927 as the Victor Talking Machine Company of Japan, a subsidiary of the American Victor Talking Machine Company. It developed the VHS video format, introducing the first consumer VHS record...

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Victrola is an American consumer audio brand based in Denver, Colorado, best known today for affordable record players, all-in-one music centres and Bluetooth speakers. The name goes back to the phonographs sold by the Victor Talking Machine Company,...

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Vienna Acoustics is an Austrian loudspeaker manufacturer founded in Vienna in 1989 by Peter Gansterer, who studied acoustical engineering in the city and remains its chief designer. The company has hand-built loudspeakers in Vienna for more than thir...

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Vimberg is a German high-end loudspeaker brand created by Jörn Janczak, founder, owner and chief designer of Tidal Audio, as a more affordable line built on Tidal know-how. Its speakers are designed and built by TIDAL Audio GmbH in Hürth near Cologne...

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Vincent is a German hi-fi brand registered in 1995 by Sintron Vertriebs GmbH, now Sintron Distribution GmbH, of Iffezheim in Baden. Its signature product type is the hybrid amplifier that pairs a valve input or driver stage with a transistor output s...

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Vinnie Rossi is an American amplifier company headed by the engineer whose name it carries, based in Massachusetts. Rossi first traded as Red Wine Audio, a one-man venture started at age 24 with USD 10,000 of savings, whose first product was a small ...

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Vinshine Audio is a Singapore audio company founded in 2008 by Alvin Chee, an honours graduate in computer engineering from the National University of Singapore. It works as a curated retailer and representative for a short list of mostly Asian manuf...

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Violectric is a German brand of headphone amplifiers, preamplifiers and digital converters, launched in 2009 by Lake People electronic of Konstanz on Lake Constance. Lake People itself dates from 1986 and built its reputation on studio tools, startin...

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Virtual HiFi is a small audio company that sells its own loudspeakers, cables, op amps and accessories through its online shop, and presents its products through video tests rather than written claims. Its best-known product is the Viper, a very comp...

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Virtual HiFi is a Polish boutique Hi-Fi audio brand. It was founded in 2025 by acoustic engineer Grzegorz Rulka, who also continues to lead other Polish brands—Cube Audio and Qualio.

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Vision Ears is a Cologne-based German workshop producing moulded and universal-fit in-ear monitors, run by its two founders Marcel Schoenen and Amin Karimpour. The business in its current form dates from 2013, when the pair opened a small shop on Lux...

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Vitavox is a British loudspeaker and sound equipment company founded in London in 1931 by Len Young. From the start it built microphones, loudspeakers and horns for cinema, radio and public address use, and it soon became a supplier to the armed forc...

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Vitus Audio is a Danish high-end electronics maker based in Herning, founded by engineer Hans-Ole Vitus. The company traces its unofficial start to 1995 and made its public debut in 2003 at a Stockholm show with three products, the RP-100 phono stage...

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Viva Audio is an Italian maker of vacuum-tube electronics and horn loudspeakers, founded in 1996 by brothers Amedeo and Giampietro Schembri and based in Camisano near Padua. Each product is drawn up and hand-built in Italy and sold through distributo...

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Vivid Audio is a South African loudspeaker maker based in Durban, registered in 2004 and led on the engineering side by Laurence Dickie, who earlier designed the B&W Nautilus. Its first models, the B1 and K1, appeared in 2004, and production moved fr...

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Founded in South Africa, Vivid Audio is a speaker company started in 2004 by designer Laurence Dickie and engineer Philip Guttentag. It is known for curved composite enclosures and for drivers it designs and builds itself, and its catalogue runs from...

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Volti Audio is a small American maker of high-sensitivity horn loudspeakers, founded in 2010 by Greg Roberts. The company name translates as to move forward. Each speaker is built by hand in a woodworking shop rather than on a production line, and th...

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Volumio is an Italian music streaming company based in Florence, founded by its chief executive Michelangelo Guarise. It began with free playback software, Volumio OS, that runs on a Raspberry Pi, Tinker Board or an ordinary PC, and it now also sells...

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Von Schweikert Audio builds loudspeakers in Riverside, California, rooted in the work of designer Albert Von Schweikert (1945-2020). He founded Von Schweikert Research in 1994, launched the VR-4, and re-formed the business in southern California afte...

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Voxativ is a German maker of single-driver loudspeakers and full-range drive units, founded in Berlin by engineer Inès Adler and now based in Zossen, south of the city. Adler holds 14 patents from her earlier career at Mercedes-Benz, where she worked...

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VPI Industries is a privately held American maker of turntables, tonearms and record-care machines, based in Cliffwood, New Jersey. Harry and Sheila Weisfeld started it in 1978 in the basement of their home in Howard Beach, New York. Its first turnta...

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VPI Industries Inc. is a family-run American analogue specialist from Cliffwood, New Jersey, producing turntables, tonearms and machines for cleaning records. Founded in 1978 by Harry and Sheila Weisfeld, the firm began with accessories rather than r...

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VTL, short for Vacuum Tube Logic, is an American manufacturer of tube amplifiers and preamplifiers for home audio, based in Chino, California. David Manley first designed the circuits in South Africa in 1980, production started in Britain in 1983, an...

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VTV Amplifier is a small US workshop producing Class D amps, assembling its units in the USA around modules from Purifi Audio and Hypex. It works as a custom shop, adapting a design to the buyer's application rather than offering a fixed catalog of i...

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Vulkkano is a Spanish audio brand making powered speakers, subwoofers, turntables and headphones for home use. The company says it was born in Spain almost two decades ago, and it concentrates on all-in-one active speakers that connect directly to a ...