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Magnum Semiconductor
USA based semiconductor manufacturer, makes media encoding, decoding and transcoding chips and unlike most such not only chips intended for consumer level devices but also for professional broadcast applications. -- Official homepage.
Magnum Semiconductor, 591 Yosemite Drive, Milpitas, California 95035, USA.
Tel: +1 408 934 3700. Fax: +1 408 719 9251. E-Mail: sales ((at)) magnumsemi.com.
Manger (Loudspeaker drivers) See --> Manger
Minneapolis Speaker Company (MISCO)
USA based manufacturer of loudspeaker drivers, primarily an OEM and you are most likely to see their products in car audioand PA applications but they make anything from multimedia speakers to hifi speakers. Company originally founded in 1949 as the Minneapolis Speaker Reconing Company. -- Official homepage.
MISCO., 2637 32nd Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406-1641, USA.
Tel : +612 825 1010. Fax : +612 825 7010. E-Mail : info at miscospeakers.com.
Mitsumi
Japanese manufacturer of electronics and computer parts and assemblies, these days largely occupied with manufacturing antenna and radio submodules for sale in the West but in the East they actually supply parts for anything from fax machines to high end DVD players. -- Official homepage. - European and USA homepage
Mullard (USA/Canada only) See --> New Sensor Corporation
Mundorf
German manufacturer of passive electronic parts such as coils and capacitors intended for use in both hi-fi and car audio products but they have also more recently introduced a line of loudspeaker tweeters intended for high end hi-fi applications. -- Official homepage.
Distributed in Russsia by Audiomania and in Spain by Audiohum
MuRata Manufacturing
Japanese manufacturer of wide range of mostly passive electronic parts but is best known in the audio world for their "Super" tweeters and their ceramic filters. The quality of the passive components such as capacitors and resistors that MuRata makes has seen them increasingly popular in mid and high end designs, this is perhaps not a surprise since they are interestingly enough part owner of Onkyo. -- Official homepage.
Distributed in China, Hong Kong and Macau by Radar Audio
Neutrik
Manufactures high end connectors for hi-fi, pro-video, data and pro audio in addition to test equipment and patchbays, company based in Liechtenstein. Also bought out Re-An a few years back and now manufactures a cheaper line of connectors, stage boxes and patchbays under the Rean name. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : In France by Sennheiser France and Algam, in Ecuador by Banlow S. A., in Sweden by POL Teknik and in Taiwan by Taisheng Trading. Non-exclusive distribution/wholesaling in Latin America by Tropical Music Export Enterprises and in the UK, Holland, France and Belgum by Electrovision
Neutrik AG, Im alten Riet 143, 9494 Schaan, Principality of Liechtenstein.
Tel : +423 2372424. Fax : +423 2325393. E-Mail : neutrik at neutrik.com
Next Experience (NXP)
Dutch semiconductor manufacturer that has a huge range of CE related products including specialised audio and video IC's. This company used to be the semiconductor division of Philips but was spun off in 2006 and the majority of shares was bought by venture capitalists. -- Official homepage.
North Creek Music Systems
USA based manufacturer of loudspeaker components including drivers and a variety of passive electronic components such as resistors, capacitors and inductors to the trade in addition to manufacturing loudspeakers ans an OEM. The company was originally founded in 1991 by George E. Short (ex-Teledyne and Apogee Acoustics) to supply loudspeaker kits and parts directly to the public but stopped the manufacture and sales of these on Sept. 30, 2006. They do however supply some upgrade kits still. -- Official homepage.
Norsorex See --> Astrotech Advanced Elastomerproducts GmbH
Nucore See --> Nucore Technologies (High power audio inductors & solenoids)
NXP (Semiconductors) See --> NXP
NXT (Loudspeaker drivers & seimiconductors) See --> HiWave
OBO (Speaker and headphone drivers, mic inserts etc.) See --> OBO Pro.2
Omyang
Korean producer of loudspeakers and drivers mostly for the OEM market, partially owned by Onkyo. -- Official homepage.
Korea Omyang Corporation, 371-41, Kasan-Dong, KumChun-Gu, Seoul, Korea.
Phone : +82 2 853 2701. Fax : +82 2 864 4940. Email : webmaster at omyang.com
PACT XPP Technologies
German company that makes DSP chips, these are available as chips that will fit into an intel Xeoon socket or as synthesisable cores and are highly parallel devices that see most use in servers that handle streaming etc.. -- Official homepage.
PACT XPP Technologies AG, Walter-Gropius-Str. 15, D-80807 Munich, Germany.
Tel: +49 89 35344 0. Fax: +49 89 35344 199. E-Mail: info (at_ pactxpp.com.
Peerless See --> Tymphany
Philips See --> NXP (Semiconductors, IC's etc.) or Stage Accompany (Leaf loudspeaker drivers/tweeters)
Parrot (Wireless modules) See --> Parrot
Plintron
Canadian manufacturer that specialises in the manufacture of thorodial transformers, that includes audio and valve amplifier models that are licesnsed Menno Vanderveen designs from Amplimo and the company also distribute specilaised Amplimo products in NA such as power modules. The company also sells end user products under the Torus Power brand. -- Official homepage.
Distribution : In Ireland by Walton Audio
Precision Devices
UK based company that manufactures loudspeaker drivers primarily intended for PA usage, the company also owns Fane International which they formed after they bought the remains of Fane Acoustics, althoug Fane is technically an idependent company they are run from the same premises and manufacture drivers for the same market segment. -- Official homepage. -- Fane International homepage
Precision Devices International, Sovereign House, Gilcar Way, Wakefield Europort, Castleford WF10 5QS, England.
Tel: +44 (0)1924 224610 (PD) or +44 (0)1924 224618 (Fane). Fax: +44 01924 899166. E-Mail: info (at) precision-devices.com.
Radia Pro See --> BG Radia (Ribbon planar drivers)
RAM Tube Works (USA, matched valves) See --> Roger A. Modjeski
RCF (Loudspeaker drivers, horns etc) See --> RCF
Realtek
Taiwanese company that manufactures silicon chips. Best known for their networking and communication chips but the company has also made audio chips for a number of years, these are more codecs (eg AC97) rather than proper soundcard chips per se and are thus mostly to be found in computers. Realtek has been expanding into the multimedia field and produces chips such as digital TV demodulators, but more interestingly they manufacture the RTD series of SoC chips that are basically an integrated HD media player. -- Official homepage.
Rean (Connectors) See --> Neutrik
Richard Jahre
A long running German manufacturer of high quality Mica capacitors and wound parts. Originally founded in Berlin in 1919 as "Radioapparatebau Richard Jahre". -- Official homepage.
Richard Jahre GmbH, Krabbenweg 14, 26388 Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Tel: +49 (0) 44 21 5 28 40. Fax: +49 (0) 44 21 5 20 15. E-Mail: info _at_ jahre.de.
RMJ Loudspeakers
British company that holds out a MI and pro-audio web store in addition to manufacturing loudspeaker drivers for PA usage under the Royal Loudspeakers name, the drivers are similar to the products shown by Fane Acoustics shortly before their demise and apparently designed by the same gent. -- Official homepage. -- Royal Loudspeakers homepage
RMJ Loudspeakers, 107 Goose Cote Lane, Keighley,BD22 7NQ, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)777 442 8670..
Rubycon
Japanese manufacturer of capacitors and power supplies, best known for their own line of high quality aluminium electrolytic capacitors although they also manufactured the Black Gate line of capacitors for Jelmax from 1988 to 2006. -- Official homepage.
Rubycon, 1938-1 Nishi-Minowa, Ina City, Nagano 399-4593, Japan.
Tel: +81 (0)265 72 7111. Fax: +81 (0)265 73 2914..
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