Letter W — Brands

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Wadax is a Madrid-based Spanish maker of digital source components, founded by engineer Javier Guadalajara and built around a proprietary error-correction chip called musIC. Its first product, the Pre1 Phono, appeared in 2011, and the brand now conce...

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Walker Audio is a small American turntable maker from Audubon, Pennsylvania, founded by Lloyd Walker with his partner Fred Law and associated above all with one product, the Proscenium turntable. Work began in a garage with the goal of building the b...

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Warwick Acoustics is a British maker of electrostatic headphone systems, incorporated in 2002 and based at MIRA Technology Park in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. It developed the High-Precision Electrostatic Laminate (HPEL) transducer, and its Sonoma Model ...

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Wattson Audio is a Swiss maker of compact streaming components based in Préverenges near Lausanne and owned by CH Precision. The company began by providing design consultancy on digital audio and streaming to other high-end manufacturers before launc...

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WAVAC Audio Lab builds valve amplification in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, operating since 1996. Its best-known products are triode monoblocks rated at 150 W, a high figure for that topology. The founder started the company after more than 20 years...

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Wave Kinetics is a small American turntable company founded in 2009 by Jonathan Tinn and based in Anaheim Hills, California. It builds one product family, the NVS Reference direct-drive turntable, which draws on physics and engineering experience gai...

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We Are Rewind is a French company founded in Paris in 2016 by Romain Boudruche to design a new portable cassette player for today's listeners. Its WE-001 player was the first portable cassette player with a rechargeable lithium battery and Bluetooth,...

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Weiss Engineering is a Swiss digital audio specialist set up in 1985 in Uster near Zurich by electronics engineer Daniel Weiss. It began with converters and processors for mastering studios and since 2000 has also built DACs and streaming products fo...

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Well Tempered Lab is a small turntable maker built around the designs of William Firebaugh, whose tonearm has no conventional bearing. The arm hangs from a golf ball partly immersed in high-viscosity silicone fluid, held in place by a plastic thread,...

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Westend Audio Systems is a small German maker of tube electronics based in Munich, run by managing director Stefan Trog with developer Günter Mania. It is known mainly for the Monaco, a heavy push-pull valve integrated, and a short list of hand-built...

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Western Electric is an American maker of vacuum tubes and tube audio equipment based in Rossville, Georgia. The name dates to 1869 and the Bell System era, while today's company was re-established in 1996 solely to build electron tubes and high-fidel...

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Westlake Audio is an American loudspeaker company in Newbury Park, California, known for large studio reference monitors since the early 1970s. It opened in 1971 on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, initially as a supplier of complete recording stud...

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Westone makes in-ear monitors in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with roots in a hearing healthcare business founded in 1959. Its music division, Westone Audio, builds custom and universal-fit earphones for stage and home use, and the parent company is c...

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Wharfedale is a loudspeaker brand from Britain, started in 1932 by Gilbert Arthur Briggs in Idle, a district of Bradford in West Yorkshire, under the name Wharfedale Wireless Works. Today it is based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, and builds passive ...

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Wharfedale is a loudspeaker company from England, started in 1932 by Gilbert Briggs as Wharfedale Wireless Works in Idle, Bradford, West Yorkshire. Now based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, it builds passive speakers from compact bookshelf pairs to la...

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Whest Audio is a small London company founded in 2003 by James Henriot, who still runs it. It makes Class-A phono preamplifiers for vinyl playback, hand-built in-house, and covers both moving magnet and moving coil cartridges. Alongside the phono sta...

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Whizzer is an earphone brand from China, set up in 2013 and headquartered in Shenzhen. It describes itself as a design-driven maker of hi-fi earphones, and most of its range is wired in-ear monitors with a strong visual identity, sold at modest price...

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WiiM is the consumer audio brand of Linkplay Technology Inc, a company founded in 2014 by engineers with backgrounds at Google, Broadcom, InterVideo and Harman. Linkplay first built wireless audio platforms for other companies and now develops WiiM a...

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Wilson Audio Specialties is an American high-end loudspeaker company founded in 1974 in Novato, California, by David A. Wilson and Sheryl Lee Wilson. It is now based in Provo, Utah, employs around 60 people and is known for some of the most expensive...

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Wilson Benesch is a loudspeaker and turntable maker from Sheffield, England, founded in 1989 and best known for building speaker cabinets, tonearms and turntable parts from carbon fibre composites. It is a privately held firm that works out of Falcon...

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Wireworld Cable Technology is a cable company headquartered in the Fort Lauderdale area of Florida, founded in 1992 by industrial designer David Salz. It covers almost every connection in a home or studio system, from analog interconnects and speaker...

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WLM, short for Wiener Lautsprecher Manufaktur, is a small Austrian loudspeaker workshop founded in 2003. It builds high-efficiency speakers intended to run from low-powered tube amplifiers, and its name has been tied from the start to the Diva, the m...

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Wolf von Langa is a small German loudspeaker maker based in Neunkirchen am Brand in Bavaria, built entirely around field coil drivers. In these drivers an electromagnet powered by an electric current produces the magnetic field, replacing the permane...

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Woo Audio is a family-run maker of tube headphone amplifiers from New York, started by Wei Wu and his sons Jack and Zhidong in a small apartment in Queens. It grew out of an amplifier Wei Wu built for his own Sennheiser headphones after finding the c...