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Royal Philips Electronics N.V. |
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics Inc.), most commonly known as Philips, (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is a Dutch electronics company.
Philips is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. In 2007, its sales...
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Sony Corporation (commonly referred to as Sony) (Japanese: ソニー株式会社, Sonī Kabushiki Kaisha) (TYO: 6758) is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue...
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USB |
USB (Universal Serial Bus) is a specification to establish communication between devices and a host controller (usually personal computers). USB is intended to replace many varieties of serial and parallel ports. USB can connect computer peripherals...
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A loudspeaker (or "speaker") is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical signal into sound. The speaker pulses in accordance with the variations of an electrical signal and causes sound waves to propagate through a medium such as...
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Coaxial cable, or coax, is an electrical cable with an inner conductor surrounded by a tubular insulating layer typically of a flexible material with a high dielectric constant, all of which are surrounded by a conductive layer called the shield ...
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The Mitsubishi Group (三菱グループ, Mitsubishi Gurūpu), Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies is a Japanese conglomerate consisting of a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark and legacy. The Mitsubishi...
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Fujitsu Ltd |
Fujitsu Limited (富士通株式会社, Fujitsū Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese multinational computer hardware and IT services company headquartered in the Shiodome City Center complex in Minato, Tokyo.. Fujitsu's central focus is on providing IT-driven business...
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Toshiba Corporation |
Toshiba Corporation (Japanese: 株式会社東芝, Kabushiki-gaisha Tōshiba) (TYO: 6502) (pronounced: Toe-SHE-buh; Japanese pronunciation closer to: TOH-she-bah) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The...
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| BNC connector |
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The BNC (Bayonet Neill-Concelman) connector is a very common type of RF connector used for terminating coaxial cable.
The BNC connector is used for RF signal connections, for analog and Serial Digital Interface video signals, amateur radio antenna...
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| Panasonic |
Panasonic (パナソニック Panasonikku) is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Panasonic Corporation (formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.) Under this brand the company sells plasma and LCD display...
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Panasonic Corporation (パナソニック株式会社, Panasonikku Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6752 NYSE: PC), formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (松下電器産業株式会社, Matsushita Denki Kabushiki-gaisha), is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered...
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S/PDIF specifies a Data Link Layer protocol and choice of Physical Layer specifications for carrying digital audio signals between devices and stereo components over either optical or electrical cable. The name stands for Sony/Philips Digital...
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An RCA connector, sometimes called cinch plug or lotus plug, is a type of electrical connector that is commonly used in the audio/video market. The name "RCA" derives from the Radio Corporation of America, which introduced the design by the early...
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Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (日本ビクター株式会社, Nippon Bikutā Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6792), usually referred to as JVC, is a Japanese international consumer and professional electronics corporation based in Yokohama, Japan which was founded in 1927. The...
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The digital audio standard frequently called AES/EBU, officially known as AES3, is used for carrying digital audio signals between various devices. It was developed by the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and...
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TOSLINK or Optical Cable is a standardized optical fiber connection system. Its most common use is in consumer audio equipment (via a "digital optical" socket), where it carries a digital audio stream between components such as MiniDisc and CD...
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| Hitachi, Ltd. |
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Hitachi Ltd. (株式会社日立製作所, Kabushiki-gaisha Hitachi Seisakusho) (TYO: 6501, NYSE: HIT) is a Japanese multinational corporation specializing in high-technology and services headquartered in Marunouchi Itchome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the...
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Tandberg (OSE: TAA) is a manufacturer of videoconferencing systems, located in Oslo, Norway (product development, sales and distribution) and New York City, USA (sales and distribution). The company's main competitor is Polycom and other competitors...
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Tannoy Ltd is an English manufacturer of loudspeakers and public-address (PA) systems. The company was founded as Tulsemere Manufacturing Company in London in 1926.
The name Tannoy is a syllabic abbreviation of tantalum alloy, which was the material...
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Samsung |
Samsung Electronics (SEC, Korean: 삼성전자, KRX: 005930, KRX: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is the world's largest electronics company, headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is the largest South Korean company and the flagship subsidiary...
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Technics is a brand name of the Panasonic Corporation, a company that produces a variety of electronic products.
Technics is a term for the useful arts in general, distinct from that of the performing and fine arts. The name is often mispronounced...
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| Sennheiser |
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Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG is a private German company that makes high end microphones, headphones, telephony accessories, and avionics headsets for consumer, professional, and business applications.
Sennheiser is privately owned by the...
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Akai (traditional Chinese: 雅佳; pinyin: Yǎjiā, Japanese: AKAI in rōmaji) is a consumer electronics brand, founded by Saburo Akai (who died in 1973) as Akai Electric Company Ltd. (赤井電機株式会社, Akai Denki Kabushiki-gaisha), a Japanese manufacturer in 1929...
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Nakamichi is a historic Japanese high end audio company most famous for its innovative and very high quality cassette decks.
In 1972, Nakamichi launched its first Nakamichi-brand products, home audio gear that included the world's first three-head...
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Aiwa (アイワ) was a Japanese consumer electronics company, founded in 1951. It experienced considerable success in the 1970s and 1980s producing audio and video equipment that was sold around the world.
Aiwa had a number of electronics 'firsts'...
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Yamaha Corporation |
The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社, Yamaha Kabushiki Gaisha) (TYO: 7951) is a multinational corporation and conglomerate based in Japan with a wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments, motorcycles, power sports equipment,...
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| XLR connector |
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The XLR connector is an electrical connector design. XLR plugs and sockets are used mostly in professional audio and video electronics cabling applications, often for microphones. Home audio and video electronics normally use RCA connectors for line...
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| NEC |
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NEC Corporation |
NEC Corporation (日本電気株式会社, Nippon Denki Kabushiki Gaisha, TYO: 6701), a Japanese multinational IT company, has its headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. NEC, part of the Sumitomo Group, provides information technology (IT) and network solutions to...
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| Dbx, Inc. |
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dbx, Inc. is a producer of professional audio recording equipment. It was founded by David E. Blackmer in 1971. The original company goal was: "To get closer to the realism of a live performance." Its early products were based on the concept of...
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| Bose |
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Bose Corporation (pronounced /boʊz/) is a privately-held, American company, based in Framingham, Massachusetts, that specializes in audio equipment. Bose products can be found in Olympics stadiums, The Broadway Theatre, the Sistine Chapel and the...
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KEF is a British-based loudspeaker manufacturer with international distribution. It was founded in 1961 by electrical engineer Raymond Cooke and named after Kent Engineering & Foundry. In 1991, the New York Times characterized it as a "leading"...
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Kyocera Corporation (京セラ株式会社, Kyōsera Kabushiki-gaisha) is a multinational manufacturer based in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd. (京都セラミツク株式会社, Kyōto Seramikku Kabushiki-gaisha) in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982....
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| ViewSonic |
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ViewSonic Corporation is a manufacturer and provider of visual technology, specifically CRT monitors, liquid crystal displays, projectors, plasma displays, HDTV technology, and mobile products, including Mini & All in One PCs and wireless monitors....
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| Telefunken |
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Telefunken is a German radio and television company, founded in 1903, in Berlin, as a joint venture of two large companies, Siemens & Halske (S & H) and the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (General Electricity Company). The name "Telefunken"...
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| Sharp Corporation |
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Sharp Corporation (シャープ株式会社, Shāpu Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6753, LuxSE: SRP) is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products. Headquartered in Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan, Sharp employs more than 54,144 people...
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| Linn Products |
Linn Products is a Scottish company, based in Glasgow, that manufactures hi-fi, home theatre, and multi-room audio systems. It is the manufacturer of the renowned Linn Sondek LP12 turntable.
Linn began as an offshoot of Castle Precision Engineering ...
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| Zenith Electronics |
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Zenith Electronics Corporation is a former American manufacturer of televisions headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois. It was the inventor of the modern remote control, and it introduced HDTV in North America. Zenith is now a member of the South...
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| Krell Industries Inc. |
Krell Industries Inc., founded by its C.E.O. and chief designer Dan D'Agostino, is one of America's largest manufacturers of high-end audio systems. While most of their acclaim has come from their power amplifiers and CD players (their flagship...
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| Electrocompaniet |
Electrocompaniet is a Norwegian manufacturer of high-end audio products. Their philosophy of the perfect sound has been controversial over their 30 years of history. They base their ideal sound not on technical measurements and theory but rather on...
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| Pioneer Corporation |
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Pioneer Corporation (パイオニア株式会社, Paionia Kabushiki-kaisha) (TYO: 6773) is a multinational corporation that specializes in digital entertainment products, based in Tokyo, Japan. The company was founded in 1938 in Tokyo as a radio and speaker repair...
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| Behringer |
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Behringer Holdings Ltd (Behringer) is an audio equipment company founded by Uli Behringer in 1989, in Willich, Germany. Today, Behringer is a multi-national group of companies, with its headquarters in Monaco, a direct marketing presence in 10...
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| Onkyo |
Onkyo Corporation (オンキヨー株式会社, Onkyō Kabushiki-gaisha) (JASDAQ: 6729) is a Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer, specializing in home cinema and audio equipment including receivers and surround sound speakers. The word Onkyo translates as ...
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| Earthworks |
Earthworks is a professional audio equipment company founded by David E. Blackmer in the late 1980s after he left dbx to sell studio microphones, preamplifiers and studio reference monitors.
Their products are based on Blackmer's research into...
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| Klipsch |
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Klipsch Audio Technologies (pronounced /ˈklɪpʃ/) is a consumer and professional speaker company based in the United States. Founded in Hope, Arkansas in 1946 by Paul Klipsch as Klipsch and Associates, it produces loudspeaker drivers and enclosures,...
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| Kenwood Electronics |
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Kenwood Corporation (株式会社ケンウッド, Kabushiki-gaisha Ken'uddo) (TYO: 6765) is a Japanese manufacturer of amateur radio as well as Hi-Fi and portable audio equipment.
The company first started in 1946 as the Kasuga Radio Co. Ltd. In Komagane City, Nagano...
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| Sansui |
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Sansui Electric Co., Ltd. (山水電気株式会社, Sansui Denki Kabushiki-gaisha)) (TYO: 6793) is a Japanese manufacturer of audio and video equipment. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, it is part of Grande Holdings, a Chinese Hong Kong-based conglomerate, who also...
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| JBL |
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JBL is an American audio electronics company currently owned by Harman International. It was founded in 1946 by James Bullough Lansing. Their primary products are loudspeakers and associated electronics. There are two independent divisions within...
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| Yokogawa Electric |
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Yokogawa Electric Corporation (横河電機株式会社, Yokogawa-denki-kabushikigaisha) is a Japanese electrical engineering and software company, with businesses based on its technologies in measurement, control, and information. It has a workforce of over 19,000...
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| Accuphase |
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 late 1972. Kasuga was not happy with the views of Kenwood relating...
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| Bösendorfer |
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Bosendorfer |
Bösendorfer (L. Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik GmbH) is an Austrian piano manufacturer, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha. A Bösendorfer piano has a very rich, singing, and sustaining tone. Some Bösendorfer pianos are noted for their dark, full...
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| Marantz |
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Marantz is a company that develops and sells upper-mid range to high-end audio products.
The first Marantz audio product was designed and built by Saul B. Marantz in his home in Kew Gardens, New York. The company had a major influence in the...
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| Shure |
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Shure Incorporated is a consumer and professional audio electronics corporation. Shure Incorporated mainly produces microphones and other audio electronics, but also produces in-ear monitors (earphones) for a variety of audio applications including...
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| Revox |
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ReVox is a brand name of Swiss audio equipment created by Studer in the 1950s.
The ReVox brand name was spun off into Studer Revox AG in 1990. During Studer's acquisition by Harman International Industries, Revox was sold separately to a group of...
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| Teac |
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TEAC Corporation (pronounced "Tee-ack") TYO: 6803 is an electronics company based in Japan. TEAC was founded in 1956 as the Tokyo Electro Acoustic Company.
TEAC has four divisions:
TEAC is known for its audio equipment, and was a primary...
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| PSB Speakers |
PSB Speakers is a Canadian loudspeaker company founded in 1972 by Paul Barton. The company is named after Barton and his wife Sue. The company is headquartered in Pickering, Ontario and is now part of the Lenbrook Group.
PSB Speakers produces many...
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| Grado Labs |
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Grado Labs is a manufacturer of dynamic open-air headphones as well as phonograph cartridges.
Founded by Joseph Grado and based in Brooklyn, NY, Grado Labs specializes in dynamic open-air, supra-aural, high-fidelity headphones, which have won awards...
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| Martin-Logan |
MartinLogan is a North American company producing a variety of floor-standing hybrid, wall-mounted, and in-wall speakers using electrostatic loudspeaker and planar magnetic thin film loudspeaker technology, as well as conventional subwoofers....
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| Alesis |
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Alesis is a company that designs and markets electronic musical instruments, which it has manufactured primarily in China. Alesis is owned by Numark and based in Cumberland, Rhode Island.
The products manufactured by Alesis are mainly for studio and...
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| McIntosh Laboratory |
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McIntosh Laboratory is a manufacturer of high-end audio equipment based in Binghamton, New York. Founded in 1949 by Frank McIntosh, the company is noted for its extremely high build quality and excellent technical specifications. The "classic"...
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| Celestion |
Celestion is a British maker of loudspeakers.
The work of what would become Celestion started in Hampton Wick (suburban London) in 1924. Celestion Radio Company and Celestion Limited were formed in 1927, and two years later the company moved across...
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