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Manufacturers
The range of products and companies that we deal with is vast and dynamic. To simplify your choice, we spend a great deal of time evaluating equipment from which we select the items that are available for demonstration. We take into account not only performance quality but also build quality, reliability and professional support.
Whatever type of product or system you are interested in, we would strongly encourage you to pay us a visit so we can make sure that it fully meets your expectations. Audio products in particular each have a distinctive sound and the only way to decide which sound is right is to listen.
The companies that we deal with are detailed below with a brief description of what they do. You can look at our suggested systems page and product gallery for descriptions and images of some of our more popular music and cinema systems. And you can look at a case study and sample installations of our custom services. |
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Anthony Gallo Acoustics
Anthony Gallo designed his first loudspeaker at the age of 14. The company was founded in the Bronx district of New York in 1994. Later that year they produced their first product - the acclaimed Nucleus reference speaker. Anthony Gallo designs his creations around spheres, eliminating internal resonance and external diffraction, the two main causes of loudspeaker distortion. They produce high-end loudspeakers that fit into the palm of your hand, designed to bring exceptional, expansive sound to living spaces large and small. Today, his Nucleus Micro and Due loudspeakers are sold in over 30 countries world wide. |
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Arcam
Established in Cambridge in 1976, Arcam's first product. the A60 amplifier, became hugely popular and established Arcam as the UK's leading manufacturer of value for money electronic goods. Arcam was also the first UK manufacturer to produce a DAB tuner. They currently produce a wide range of electronics covering both hi-fi and home cinema. Starting with the all-in-one music Solo and going up to the flagship AV9 cinema processor. |
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Audiophile
Based in East Sussex, Audiophile manufactures an advanced equipment isolation system called Base. Designed around a material called Sorbothane, the BASE system drastically improves the sound of audio equipment through isolating it from structure-borne vibration. |
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Bowers & Wilkins
B&W is the UK's largest audio company. It distributes its many Hi-Fi and home cinema speaker ranges across the globe, from its factory and offices in Worthing on the South Coast of England. Formed by John Bowers in 1966 as a result of his passion for classical music and its accurate reproduction, Bowers realised that pushing back the boundaries of speaker design required extensive research and development.
To achieve this, he invested all of the company's early profits in establishing an R&D department. That department is now housed in its own building and feels more like a speaker university than part of a corporate company. B&W make innovative speakers at all levels from the 600 series to the stunning Nautilus. |
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Classe
In the last quarter century, home entertainment has come of age. You can experience musical and theatrical events in the comfort of your own home, reproduced by systems that easily outperform commercial concert and movie venues. Alone, with family or when entertaining friends, high-end music and theater systems let you enjoy the luxury and convenience of private performances without leaving home. For those who invest in a Classe-based system, the experience can be truly breathtaking. |
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Creek Audio
Formed my Mike Creek in 1981, Creek took the hi-fi market by storm in 1982 when it launched the CAS4040 amplifier which, at £99, usurped the famous NAD 3020 and redefined the level of performance that was available at that price. Creek now produces a full range of electronics and is still the hot brand for inexpensive amplification. |
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Crestron
Based in New Jersey, for 25 years Crestron has designed and manufactured the world's most advanced remote control systems. These can be found in all sorts of applications from distance learning centres to, as we use them, in high-technology homes. Based around touch screen technology, a Creston controller will operate virtually any audio visual or environmental device. A Creston controller is fitted into our downstairs home cinema system where it seamlessly controls everything from the lights to the volume level even though the equipment is located in another room.
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Denon
Established in Japan in 1910, Denon is one of the more specialised of the Japanese electronic companies and does a very good job at staying one step ahead of the competition with products like micro systems, ideal for secondary systems. |
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Dynavector
Dynavector is one of the world's oldest manufacturers of moving coil cartridges. Founded by Dr Nobura Tominari - an academic from Tokyo University, Dynavector's range also consists of a high quality Moving Coil phono stage. |
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Imerge
Imerge - headquartered in Cambridge, UK - is a recognised leader in Internet-connected hard disk-based audio products and Media Appliances. Products include the XiVA™ Media Appliance Technology, XiVA-Net Entertainment Portal for music and video products and the revolutionary SoundServer range of hard disk audio devices.
The Imerge S3000 is the most advanced audio server in the world. With a slick web interface, online upgradable software, support for WMA and a hundred more improvements. |
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Kaleidescape
Kaleidescape manufacture an entertainment server that has changed the way movies and music are collected and enjoyed in a home, yacht or private jet. The Kaleidescape System combines a compelling user interface, an outstanding industrial design, and services that set new standards in the consumer electronics industry. Kaleidescape was founded in 2001 and is privately held.
Kaleidescape's headquarters are located in Mountain View, California. Research and development are done by Kaleidescape Canada, Inc., based in Waterloo, Ontario. Their products are available through a network of custom-installation dealers and distributors throughout the world.
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Linn
Ivor Tiefunbrum founded Linn Products in 1972 with a belief that he could vastly improve the sound of his own hi-fi system. The famous Sondek LP12 record player was the first result of this belief and that product caused such a stir it launched Linn onto the international stage. In the 1980s Linn began moving into the electronics market which now forms the core of its business. Always innovative, Linn now produces three ranges of equipment: music systems, multi-channel cinema systems and the Knekt multi-room system. Its most ambitious product - the £12,000 CD12 CD player - has been recognised worldwide as offering the best sound possible from the CD medium.
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Loewe
Loewe is a German manufacturer of high-performance televisions. A medium size company, throughout its seventy-year history Loewe has consistently been the world's most innovative TV manufacturer. It manufactured the world's first TV in 1931, Europe's first stereo TV in 1981 and, the first digital TV with 100hz scanning in 1994. Loewe TV's are also some of the most stylish around.
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Lutron
In 1961, US-based Lutron introduced the world's first solid-state dimmer. Now with over 5,000 products, Lutron innovations have transformed the world of lighting controls. Lutron can provide systems that can control anything from the lights in a single room, to a complex system that can control a whole home. You can see a Lutron system in action in our home cinema rooms.
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Marantz
Saul Marantz first began designing hi-fi to play his own collection of 78s and established the company Marantz in the 1950s. Marantz is focussed on the performance end of the hi-fi and home cinema market. Their ranges of equipment offer the most varied number of features at this level.
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Meridian
Meridian was founded by Bob Stuart - an electronics graduate - and Allen Boothroyd- a design graduate. A shared interest in music and audio design led them to establish Meridian in 1977. This unusual pairing of designer and engineer has produced some of the most innovative products ever seen. Meridian's particular expertise is in digital products where they are recognised as the market driver. Meridian were the first company to produce a digital loudspeaker and also manufacture one of the most advanced digital processors on the market, the 861.
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Miller & Kreisel
(M&K) M&K is a Californian company set-up in 1974 by enthusiast Ken Kreisel. M&K's career began impressively when Kreisel was asked to design a monitoring system for mix-down of 1973 Steely Dan Classic, Pretzel Logic. its most recent coup was to become the supplier to Skywalker Ranch for the mastering of the latest Star Wars instalment, The Phantom Menace. This is the company for subwoofer and satellite packages that offer state-of -the-art quality with film and music sources. M&K speakers are permanently installed in our home theatre demonstration room.
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Naim
Founded in the early 1970s by the late Julian Vereker, Naim was one of the first specialist amplifier companies around. At that time, amplifier design was seen to be straightforward business, essentially defined by a small set of technical parameters. Naim began a revolution by insisting that its amplifiers actually sounded better than others as a result of a whole range of , then, ignored factors. Naim now manufacture and distribute (worldwide) a full range of electronics and loudspeakers and are one of the most successful of the UK hi-fi manufacturers. |
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Neat
Neat is a small, specialist loudspeaker company based in County Durham and founded in 1985 by musician and designer Bob Surgeoner. As a musician, Surgeoner pays special regard to the empirical part of the design process and his speakers are always carefully tuned for a musically convincing performance.
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Philips
Gerard Philips established his company in The Netherlands in 1891 and by the turn of the century became Europe's largest producer of carbon-filament lamps. Now one of the largest electronics manufacturers in the world, Philip's activities range as wide as being the inventor of the compact cassette and compact disc to one of the largest producers of the electric shaver. A somewhat less known Philips product is called the Pronto: a touch-screen universal remote control which will learn the function of any remote controllable device and simplify its operation.
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Pioneer
Established in 1938, Pioneer is one of the smaller of the Japanese electronics giants. Although it manufactures a huge range of electronics, Pioneer's expertise is in optical systems and related devices. It has led the way with the development of the DVD format and produces a range of Plasma screens. We use their 60" HD plasma screen in our home cinema room.
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QED
QED was founded in England in 1973 by Bob Abraham and Ian Vine. its early products consisted merely of a series of audio switching boxes and a speaker cable called 79 strand. However, 79 stand cable became near-legendary and the company now produces a huge range of cables and switching boxes for every eventuality. QED has also entered the Custom Installation market with two distributed audio systems called Systemline and MusiQ.
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Quadraspire
Dutch born furniture designer Eduard Spruit, founded Quadraspire in 1995. His passions for contemporary furniture reflects both quality and ease of use. This design approach is carried throughout the range of equipment supports, which not only improve the look of equipment but also the sound too. A wide range of furniture is available, much of which is expandable according to needs or space. |
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Rega
Rega was formed in 1973 by Ford engineer Roy Gandy. Like many others, Gandy formed his company as a result of a desire to manufacture better equipment than was available at that time. His first, and for may years only, products became two of the longest living and best known ever, the Planar 2 and 3 turntables. Rega now produces a full system CD, amp, radio,speakers and the turntables are still the bench mark by which all budget turntables are judged. |
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Richard Hirschman
Hirschman was founded in Germany in 1924 and was the company that invented the ubiquitous banana plug. Hirschman operates in several diverse markets and is a market leader in advanced aerial and RF distribution technology.
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Sennheiser
Professor Dr.-Ing Fritz Sennheiser established his company in 1945. His expertise was miniaturised devices, and originally Sennheiser gained fame for its broadcast microphones. In 1968, Sennheiser produced its first headphone, the HD414, which is to date the biggest selling headphone ever. Grahams stocks a range of Sennheiser headphones.
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Shahinian
Dick Shahinian formed his company in 1977 as a result of his dissatisfaction with conventional loudspeaker designs. Shahinian speakers are omni-directional, the most advanced models actually radiate sound in a 360 degree plane. Many companies have tried this none have produced good results. Shahinian speakers are amongst our favourites and are also some of the most distinctive looking that we have seen. |
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Spendor
Originally founded in the 1960's by Spencer and Dorothy Hughes, Spendor grew out of the expertise gained in the BBC's sound engineering department. The original BC1 design became the studio monitor of choice and soon this and other designs were to be developed for the consumer market. For over 30 years a succession of distinctive and innovative products has set a reference standard for consumer and professional users. Many Spendor designs have earned international cult status amongst discerning audiophiles and sound engineers and the virtues of such classics as the Spendor BC1 and LS3/5a are embodied in today's products.
Having acquired Spendor at the beginning of 2001, Philip Swift, founder of the renowned Audiolab amplifier brand, has set about transforming Spendor into a progressive modern company. Building on the company's worldwide reputation for innovation, engineering, and natural sound is fundamental to this process.
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Stewart
The Stewart ranges of projector screens from the US are recognised world wide as the leading domestic and professional screen manufacturer. How good are they? Good enough that they've won two Academy Awards for science and technology!
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Yamaha
A truly unusual company, Yamaha was founded in Japan in 1887 where it began life as a producer of reed organs. Since then it has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of a full line of musical instruments and a very significant player in the audio world, particularly in home cinema where it is a market leader. Yamaha is probably the only company that can claim to cover the entire reproduction of sound, from the instrument to the loudspeaker. |
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