Top Audiophile companies over the last 60, or so, years..your choices?


There are, thankfully, several great ones.  My first thoughts include:

Audio Research
Magnepan
Conrad Johnson
Vandersteen

And you can add others.  Some more "mainstream" companies that have added much:

Sony
Pioneer 

I am sure others will have much to add.  And these are a person's opinion, 
no wrong answers or posts to put down please. 


whatjd
Schubert, if we could only get our brains defragged. Roy Allison was a very gifted loudspeaker designer.
Top 11 since 1950 (60 years):

 

  • Acoustic Research
  • Audio Research
  • Conrad Johnson
  • Grado Laboratories
  • Great American Sound
  • Marantz
  • Mark Levinson Audio
  • Magnepan
  • McIntosh
  • Pass Labs (and previous iterations)
  • PS Audio

 

*Alpha order only, and in no way implied to be imperative or definitive…


Sadly, no audio company eliminated the coloration, glare, and veil from audio sound. And no company makes a natural sound. Only top audiophile company is Wavetouch audio which makes a cleanest fatigue free natural sound.

ML 23 was one of bests decades ago and still it is very good being closest to Wavetouch audio. Alex/Wavetouch

Wavetouch audio

Original music

Wilson Alexandria XLF, CH Precision, dCS Vivaldi One

YG Sonja 2.3

Harbeth 40.3, Accuphase E800

Mark Levinson 23, dCS Debussy