Change of leadership with new CEOs at T+A and PMC
Both PMC (The Professional Monitor Company, Ltd) and T+A (T+A elektroakustik GmbH & Co. KG) are family-owned audio businesses with a long and famed history. Both have appointed younger family members as new CEO to lead the companies into the future.T+A is a German hi-fi electronics and speaker manufacturer established in 1978 by Siegfried Amft, […]
The brief history of Rekkord Audio, and what Dual turntables have to do with a company in Austria
While nowhere near the scale of recent acquisitions in the audio world (Beyerdynamic, Denon/Marantz/Bowers & Wilkins, Klipsch/Pioneer/Onkyo, Sonus Faber/McIntosh) there is another string of brands being consolidated — under the umbrella of Audio Tuning GmbH in Mistelbach, Austria.Audio Tuning Vertriebs GmbH, founded by Austrian businessman Heinrich ‘Heinz’ Lichtenegger in 1986, started as an audio distribution […]
Beyerdynamic sold to Cosonic, a Chinese corporate entity
According to reports both in East Asia and in Germany, Beyerdynamic, a privately owned German company, and one of the well-known headphone technology pioneers, is soon to be acquired by Cosonic Electronics Co, Ltd. Cosonic essentially is a brand name, and Cosonic Electronics is fully owned by Jiahe Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. of Dongguan, China.Jiahe […]
Harman buys Sound United audio brands
It was a question of time. When Massimo Corporation, a huge medical technology company, decided to buy a package of premium audio brands (Denon, Marantz, Bowers & Wilkins, Polk Audio and some less known others) owned by US company Sound United LLC, many in healthcare business raised eyebrows. It is widely reported that the then […]
Gryphon Audio Designs sells minority stake to Goer Dynamics
Goer Dynamics of Qingdao, Shandong, China announced the acqusition of a minority stake in Gryphon Audio Designs ApS of Ry, Midtjylland, Denmark.Gryphon Audio Designs, a privately owned company, is known for manufacturing high end amplifiers, source components and speakers. It was founded in 1985 by an industrial designer Fleming Rasmussen, who eventually retired in 2018 […]
Linn Records downloads to close, content moved to Qobuz
According to Linn statement digital download website linnrecords.com will be closing down on February 28th. Founded in 2007 to promote high resolution downloads, the website made Linn records catalogue available as high res audio files, PCM and DSD, while also selling music from selected other labels too. Linn Records audiophile music label, established in 1982, released […]
Marshall Group bought by Chinese investment fund for €1.1 billion
The story of Marshall, famous British guitar amplifier brand, born in West London in 1962 as a family business of Jim ‘The Father of Loud’ Marshall and his son Terry, takes another turn in 2025 as Chinese private equity fund HongShan Capital Group (HSG) announced purchase of the majority stake in Marshall Group AB.Marshall guitar […]
Samsung and Google promote Eclipsa 3D Audio
Open source immersive digital audio is taking shape now after CES 2025 announcement from YouTube owner Google and hardware manufacturer Samsung. Currently named Eclipsa Audio, new format is based on the open source royalty-free audio codec jointly conceived and promoted by Alliance Of Open Media, which connects software giants like Google, Apple and Microsoft, to […]
Klipsch and Onkyo change corporate ownership again
VOXX International Corporation, owner of Premium Audio Company (Onkyo, Integra and Klipsch brands), has announced that it will be sold to Gentex Corporation, which will be acquiring all the issued and outstanding shares of VOXX common stock not already owned by Gentex for a purchase price of $7.50 per share. The transaction is subject to […]
Headphone EQ pumped up with ROON OPRA
ROON labs, a provider of sophisticated music playback and management software, adds an open source equalisation plugin for headphone listening. Named OPRA, the plugin essentially is a repository of user collected EQ data for various headphones, which can be easily inserted and used inside ROON or ARC playback software. Headphone enthusiasts now can gather and […]
