Digital

Digital Links

• Parasound California-built high-end products featuring designer John Curl.
  
• TAG McLaren TAG Heuer watches and McLaren car racing picked up British builder Audiolab and have a full line. IE-oriented web site.
  
• Goldmund Extremely-high-end components from Geneva.
  
• Madrigal/Mark Levinson Amps, some remarkably large, digital gear, accessories. Since creating this company, Levinson went on to found Cello and Red Rose.
  
• Quad Funky British high-end electronics, and probably the best-loved electrostatic speakers ever built anywhere.
  
• Lehmann Formerly known as Entec - German suppliers of the Black Box phono stage and DAC+ digital preamp.
  
• Gryphon Audio Designs High-end electronics, well-reviewed, with remarkable heat-sink fins.
  
• Monarchy Audio San-Francisco maker of zero-feedback amps and other audio products.
  
• Boulder Amplifiers, some immense, and D/A; from Colorado.
  
• Lexicon Wide range of digital audio/video products, mostly for the pro market.
  
• Fase Evoluzione Audio Attractive handcrafted Italian audio.
  
• Electrocompaniet Well-regarded Norwegian high-ender. Full product line.
  
• Cyrus Stylish British electronics.
  
• Thule Audio Visually appealing electronics (some balanced) from Denmark.
  
• Onkyo Japanese mass-market audio.
  
• Birdland French/Californian digital gear and amplifiers.
  
• Hegel Stylish Norwegian electronics.
  
• Muse Preamps and DVD gear from Kevin Halverson.
  
• Spectral Audio Well-regarded US-built high-end electronics since 1977, masterminded by Keith Johnson.
  
• Resolution Audio Leading-edge CD and DVD technology, originally an MIT spinoff.
  
• Musical Fidelity Full line of British-built amplification products; including the first based on Nuvistors.
  
• North Star Design Italian maker of digital audio gear.
  
• California Audio Labs Wide range of digital audio and video products.
  
• mbl Akustikgeräte GmbH A wide range from Germany. Unusual-looking even by the standards of high-end speakers.
  
• Sonneteer Audiophile Very elegant British electronics.
  
• Enlightened Audio Designs Electronics from Iowa, formerly famous for high-end CD, now mostly home theater.
  
• Kora Electronic Concept Sleek high-end gear from Toulouse, France.
  
• Nakamichi Used to own the high-end of cassette technology (which was amazingly good) - now mass-market, home-theater-oriented.
  
• Creek Audio Minimalist British electronics, very well-regarded.
  
• NAD British full-line manufacturer, famous for outstanding value-for-money in amps, receivers, and CD players.
  
• Cary Audio Design Retro-styled high-end tubed electronics with fanatical devotees.
  
• Information and Control Laboratory Japanese tubed electronics.
  
• Jadis French maker of expensive tubed electronics and dramatically different-looking speakers; all well-reviewed.
  
• Oracle The exravagantly-styled "CD Turntable" from long-time maker of vinyl gear.
  
• Conrad-Johnson Wide range of (mostly tubed) electronics from long-time industry leader.
  
• Harman/Kardon Famous old-time hifi name, complete line of products.
  
• Trichord Research From Britain, wide range of digital mods and components, amps, accessories, partners with J.A. Michell on some.
  
• MSB Technology Another digital-audio pioneer gone mostly home theater.
  
• Taddeo Digital Antidote Electronic device claims to correct phase errors introduced by DAC circuitry.
  
• Cello Ultra-ULTRA high end, including some of the very few EQ products high-enders like.
  
• Rotel Full range of Japanese audio electronics - some components regarded as high-end quality for mass-market price.
  
• Primare Complete line of high-end products boasts of Scandinavian design values.
  
• Wadia Digital High performance digital home entertainment; make heavy use of programmed DSP chips, not just hardwired DACs.
  
• Samuel Johnson Audio Elegantly curvy front-panel decoration.
  
• Roksan Stylish Persian-motif British high-ender, originally famous for analog, now with a complete line.
  
• Myryad Suave-looking British electronics.
  
• Marantz America Famous hi-fi name, mostly mass market, some high-end gear.
  
• Rega 25-year-old British manufacturer of well-loved turntables (hundreds of thousands sold) now make CD players and integrated amps.
  
• Meridian UK high-end manufacturer at the leading edge of digital technology - well-reviewed products.
  
• Phlox/YBA YBA is Yves-Bernard André, French audio designer - the products are loved by some audiophiles, others allege techno-mysticism.
  
• Krell American maker of very high end electronics.
  
• Daniels Audio Factory-direct high-end audio, including the "Guppy" and "Mud Puppy" speakers.
  
• Classé Audio Quebec-based maker of a wide line of high-end electronics.
  
• Camelot British digital-audio products with Arthurian-motif marketing.
  
• Audio Logic 34 All-tube DAC.
  
• netDrives The Brujo CD/MP3 player for home stereo systems.
  
• Theta Digital DVD and CD players, DACs; in the high-end digital field since the early days.