High end audio refers to audio equipment that is created to be the best, regardless of what it might turn out to cost in terms of price. High end audio equipment can be extremely expensive. People who buy this type of equipment are sometimes called An audiophile is one who is concerned with achieving high-quality results in the recording and playback of music. Audiophile values may be applied at all stages of the chain: the initial Audio recording, the production process, and the playback (usually in a home setting). The adjective high-end is... audiophiles.

High end audio can refer to the build quality of the components, but more specifically, refers to the ability to reproduce more accurate music. This can be judged on a variety of levels, from accuracy to warmth, thus fueling the ever expanding high end audio market. Audiophiles tend to look at high end audio as a hobby, rather than a product that they purchase. It involves the careful tuning of a series of components, including the room itself.

Internal Links to High End Audio Companies

(Alphabetical within category)

Electronics

• Accuphase DP-85 SACD player Accuphase Laboratories, Inc. (originally known as Kensonic Laboratories, Inc.) is a Japanese high_end audio equipment manufacturer founded by former Kenwood engineer Jiro Kasuga in 1972. Accuphase products are known for their extremely high build quality and distinctive champagne colored faceplates. Because of their similar warm... Accuphase

• Krell Industries Inc. is one of Americas largest manufacturers of high-end audio systems. While most of their acclaim has come from their power amplifiers and CD players they also make pre amplifiers, loudspeakers, subwoofers, SACD players, and more. Above is the Krell KAV 400xi integrated amplifier. External link... Krell_Industries_Inc. (Also recently introduced a line of speakers)

• Mark Levinson, now owned by Madrigal Audio Laboratories is a company specializing in high-end digital audio processors, integrated amplifiers, power amplifiers, pre amplifiers, and CD players. It was founded in 1972 as Mark Levinson Audio Systems (MLAS), and has since its birth focused on solid-stage equipment. Although their... Mark Levinson

• McIntosh Laboratory

Speakers and Headphones

• Klipsch Audio Technologies is a speaker company producing loudspeaker drivers and enclosures, as well as complete speaker sets for a variety of applications including computers. Most Klipsch systems use a horn for the mid and/or high frequencies, to have a controlled, dispersed sound. The side-effect is that the... Klipsch

• Stax Records was a Memphis, Tennessee based record label that existed from 1959 to 1976. It is known as a major factor in the creation of the Southern soul and Memphis soul music styles, and as a frequent recorder of early funk and 1960s Chicago blues. Stax is also well... Stax (Headphones, also Stax sold electronics in the '80's.)

• Grado (headphone manufacturer)

• Sennheiser is a German pro audio company founded in 1945 by Professor Dr. Fritz Sennheiser (b. 1912). In 1982 he handed the management over to his son, Jörg Sennheiser. Jörg Sennheiser is honorary professor (since 1991) and has held lectures about electro acoustics at the University of Hanover... Sennheiser

Historic High End Companies From the Past, Either Facing Difficulty in the Present or No Longer "High End."

• Bang & Olufsen

• Marantz is a company that develops and sells HiFi products. The first Marantz audio product was designed and built by Mr. Saul Marantz in the USA. Marantz the company had significant success in the 1970s with its high fidelity components. Later, the Marantz name was sold to Philips, first outside... Marantz

• Tokyo-based Nakamichi is a premium audio company. It is now owned by the Grande Group, a conglomerate based in Singapore. On February 19, 2002, Nakamichi Japan announced that they were filing for bankruptcy protection. External link http://www.nakamichi.com/ Categories: Stub ... Nakamichi

• Revox of Switzerland has made high quality audio equipment, especially open-reel tape recorders, since the 1950s. Many consider ReVox equipment to be high end audio equipment. External sites: ReVox Official Site Revox Fan Site A site devoted to ReVox (in German) Revox Tape Fan Site A site devoted to... Revox

• Tandburg

External Links

• Pictures of High End Equipment (http://www.exoticaudio.org/index.html) Contains accurate pictures and descriptions containing humor and Sarcasm is the making of remarks intended to mock the person referred to (who is normally the person addressed), a situation or thing. It is often used in a humorous manner and expressed through particular vocal intonations. This is often done by simply over-emphasizing the actual statement, or particular... sarcasm.
• Audio Club of Istanbul - Konstantinoupolis (http://aca.gr/system_ihifi.htm) Examples and pictures of High end systems.