I have a small list of some brands that I think make great products, who am I missing and who doesn’t deserve there spot?
I think the top ones are Bowsers & Wilkins Klipsch Polk PMC KEF Harman Bang & Olufsen
And some other good ones are JL Sonos Hegel McIntosh PMC Pioneer Paradigm KEF PSB Focal
B&o is designer shit.
Have you heard the Beolab 90?
Hardly what most people consider when mentioning b&o. But yes, we have bespoked b&o store where I live. They sound good, but not 800.000kr great. For that sum I’d get a set of r8 arrete and an aavik amp. Even cheaper speakers leave it far behind in terms of sound quality. It’s purely a design feature for people pretending to care about sound quality.
Have you heard their stuff in person?
Focal make mediocre quality products, their headphones are too cheaply made to ever make it onto a list like this.
Are you talking about just their headphone? Because I’ve only had good experiences with their speakers
Bose 🙃🤭
In short, every wel known brand
Can’t wait for the flaming comments
Lol i saw it coming, just as a side note im not an audiophile im actually just looking for speakers for christmas so i tried to seem like an uninformed audiophile
You nailed it…
Those brands you mentioned aren’t bad, just not “highest quality“ as you said in the title. Most people would be perfectly happy with B&W, PMC and Kef. Even Klipsch make some good speakers. It was the fact you said highest quality which made it amusing.
Ohhh i get it, i just see them as well-known brands that make really good speakers. My original categorization had people very upset (b&o top tier, pmc as an other)
As a former Harman fan, I’m really not sure that makes the “audiophile” tier. It’s pretty solid and precise sound wise, but not exactly lively (logic 7 d**ital excluded from my experience)
Rythmik makes the best home theater subs today thanks to their proprietary tech that absolutely annihilates everyone else’s subs and their ancient designs.
Agreed.
Sennheiser has never let me down
Boulder, Gryphon, Wilson, Borrensen, Constellation, CH Precision, MBL, MSB, dCs…. And so many more
Best list so far.
lol polk
Huh?
Canton !
Aerial Acoustics, Totem, Parasound, Luxman, Wadia.
The companies that focus on the science and engineering are the ones that make the highest quality products. The ones that don’t are just selling a dream and an aesthetic.
What are some that focus on science and engineering, i really wouldnt be one to know
PSAudio. Plus good value. Schiit ditto. Benchmark. VTL. Plunius.
Rega, Naim, Linn, Atoll, Kudos, Lyra, Ortofon…