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Explore four exceptional analogue audio brands, each with a dedicated profile and contact details. Discover their craftsmanship and the machines that define their design philosophy.
Contemporary German precision open-reel recorder engineering. Ballfinger is a high-end German design and precision engineering brand renowned for reviving ultra-premium, old-school analog audio equipment. Based in Krefeld, Germany, the company operates under Roland Schneider Precision Engineering and made global headlines by introducing the first newly developed commercial analog reel-to-reel tape recorder in over two decades.
Metaxas & Sins BV is an ultra-luxury European audio brand renowned for creating high-end audio sculptures and kinetic art objects that merge absolute high-fidelity engineering with avant-garde aesthetics. Founded in 1981 by recording engineer and artist Kostas Metaxas, the company operates as a boutique family collective and hand-crafts limited-edition pieces in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Modern high-end open-reel tape players and recorders, including the AAD TP-1100 and AAD TR-1100. Analog Audio Design is a French audio manufacturer based in Pleumeur-Bodou, Brittany, that specializes in modern, high-end reel-to-reel magnetic tape machines.
Thorens GmbH is a historically renowned German-based manufacturer of high-end audio equipment, globally celebrated for its legendary turntables. Originally founded in Switzerland in 1883, the brand has spent over 140 years engineering premium analogue playback equipment, operating as a benchmark for precise hi-fi sound across 70 countries.