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Defunct Audio Companies :
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H to L - M - N & O - P & Q
R - S - T - U to 9

Record labels :
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H to N - O to S - T to 9
Defunct Record Labels

Jargon/Glossary :
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About Audiotools.com

Record Players - Tonearms
Discontinued Turntables
Pickups - Discontinued Arms
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Manufacturers links - Pi to P9
Pi tp P9.
Links on Grey sidebar :
Retailers, Used Gear Retailers, General Hi-Fi repairs, Hi-Fi Magazines, Mailing lists & forums, Hi-Fi Clubs, Link Pages, Generic Hi-fi Webpages, Equipment "tuners", Cleaning Chemicals, Hi-Fi Shows, DIY Links, Hobbyist links.

Pickering See --> Stanton Magnetics

Pied Piper
Dutch loudspeaker manufacturer. Official homepage.

Piega
High end loudspeaker manufacturer based in Switzerland. Official homepage.
Distributed in Cyprus by P. Nikitas and in Taiwan by Taisheng Trading.

Pierre Lurne See --> Audiomeca

Pioneer
Big Japanese manufacturer of home and car audio and video products, traditionally strong with recording devices. Also owns the TAD brand although it's only being used currently in Japan for high end loudspeaker products. Originally founded in 1938 as a radio workshop and while most people associate the company with quality audio products they have been heavily into AV products for a long while, the first modern cable TV system was designed by them in the early 1970's and they where the main backer of the Laserdisc system and they are the current owner of Discovision Associates. Pioneer Electronic (Taiwan) also known as PTW is a manufacturer of loudspeaker parts and drivers. Official homepage. - Pioneer Europe - Pioneer North America - Pioneer Central Asia - Pioneer Electronic (PTW).
Distribution in Iceland by Bræðurnir Ormsson

Pipedreams See --> Nearfield Acoustics

Placette
US based manufacturer of high end preamplifiers. Official homepage.

Plinius See --> Audible Technologies Ltd.

Plintron
Canadian manufacturer that specialises in the manufacture of thorodial transformers, what makes them interesting from an audio standpoint is the fact that they manufacture amplifier modules and specialised signal, matching and for audio usage designed by Menno Vanderveen. Official homepage.

Pluto
Dutch turntable specialist, makes arms and carts in addition to decks, run by the legendary Eddy Driessen. Official homepage.

PMC See --> PMC

Polk
US manufacturer of low to mid end loudspeakers for home, car audio and computer/multimedia use. Official homepage.
Distributed in Holland by ASN Technologies

Polyconcept USA
USA based CE marketing company, amongst other products it sells vintage styled turntables, radios and boomboxes under licensed brand names such as RCA, Coca-Cola, Magnavox and others, the company has a number of brands that it own that have a variety of nostalgically themed products like US Basic and Spirit of St.Louis, furthermore it has in the recent past sold audio products under other licensed brandnames such as Philco. Official homepage.
Polyconcept USA, 69 Jefferson Street, Stamford, CT 06902, USA.
Tel : +(203) 358 8100. Fax : +(203) 358 8366..

Polyfusion
USA based manufacturer of high end amplifiers, D/A converters, CD players and similar products. Company was started by ex-Moog Music engineers in the early 70's and for the first few years made only modular music synthesisers, when that market bombed in the early 80's the company started making professional audio products mostly intended for the broadcast market but appears to have exited that market segment as well. Official homepage.

Portal Audio
USA based manufacturer of high end amplifiers, also acts as the USA importer of Penaudio loudspekaers. Official homepage.
Distributed in Singapore by Audio Note Singapore
Tel : +1 888 737 4434. Fax : +704 543 0207. E-Mail : equusaudio at aol.com.

Poshing See --> Guangzhou HuiYing Electronics

Power Company See --> Richard Grey's Power Company

Power Snakes See --> Shunyata Research

Power Technik
German manufacturer of sound reinforcement loudspeakers, monitors and microphone amplifiers. Official homepage.

Powerworks See --> HK Audio

Precide
Swiss high end manufacturer, makes headphones using the trademarks Ergo and Jenklin Float, and loudspeakers under the Heil and Oskar trademarks. Also acts at the Swiss distributor of Garrott Brothers. Official homepage. Distributed in the UK by Audio Synergy and in Canada by Tri-Cell.

Precision Power
US maker of high end car audio amps and speakers. Part of the ADS group. Official homepage.

Prefer - Ummels
Dutch manufacturer of professional audio products. Official homepage.
Prefer-Ummels, Hofdwarsweg 57, 6161DE Geleen, PO BOX 1002 6161BA Geleen, The Netherlands.
Phone : +31 464747373. Fax : +31 464755100
Ummels GmbH, Waldweg 1, 52525 Waldfeucht-Haaren, Germany.
Phone : +02455 930015, Fax : +02455 930025.

Distributed in France by Hamy Sound.

Premier See --> Paradigm

Prestige See --> Audiovox

Prima
UK based brand of budget hifi (and other white and Brown Goods), the AV products are sold under the Prima Electronic brand, also acts as the UK distributor for Akai Electric Co. and Finlux. Official homepage.
Prima Electronics, Prima House, Premier Park, Oulton, Leeds LS26 8ZA, England.
Phone : +44 (0) 113 251 1500. Fax : +44 (0) 113 251 1515.

Primare
Danish company with an unusually full line of high end hi-fi seperates, also manufatures the Swedish Audio Technology (SAT= line of products. Official homepage.
Distributed in Poland by Audio Klan, in Spain by Mallorca High-End and in the USA by Sumiko.

Primedisc
German manufacturer of blank MO, CDR and MD disks. Official homepage.

Prism Sound
Maker of professional audio products such as converters, eq's and mic amps. Official homepage.

Proac
English high end loudspeaker manufacturer. Official homepage.
Distributed in Belgium by Hi-Fi Corner, in Hungary by Penna Poor, in Poland by Audio Klan and in Thailand by 4D Digital Land.

Proart See --> Taiwan Timing Electronics

Proceed See --> Mardigal

Pro-Ject Audio Systems
Austrian/Czech manufacturer of turntables, audio electronics and related products, the manufacturing side is what used to be the turntable manufacturing arm of the old Tesla company but the marketing side is actually Audio Tuning. For background information on the company you can take a look at the following page on the history of Pro-ject. Official homepage.

Distribution : Europe In Andorra by Ischia Major, in Austria by Audio Tuning, in Belgium, Holland and Luxembourgh by Ascon, in Bulgaria by Balkan Audio, in Croatia by Media Audio, in Cyprus by P K Digital Hi-Fi, in the Czech Republic by SEV Litovel, in Denmark by Tekni-Fi, in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by Elkor, in Finland by AH Hifisystems, in France by Audio Marketing Services, in Germany by Audio Trade, in Greece by Orpheus Audio, in Hungary by Audio Tuning, in Iceland by I. D. Electronic, in Italy by Audio Gamma, in Macedonia by D. T. Kodi, in Norway by Ljudtema/Norge, in Poland by Voice, in Portugal by Corel 2, in Romania by Valimpex, in Slovakia by Ketos, in Spain by Sarte Audio Elite, in Sweden by Ljudtema, in Switzerland by Marlex and in the UK and Ireland by Henley Designs. Asia & Australasia In Australia by International Dynamics, in Hong Kong by First Impression Marketing, in India by Nova Audio Private, in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore by Norman, in Japan by Ortofon Japan, in New Zealand by International Dynamics NZ, in the Philippines by Audio Den, in South Korea by Solomon Marketing, in Sri Lanka by The Listening Room, in Taiwan by Audio Vertex, in Thailand by General Express International and in Vietnam by Nghe Thinh. America, West Indies & the Pacific In Argentina by Star Audio, in Brazil by Som Maior, in Canada by Essential Audio, in Chile by AVTec, in Reunion by A. V. I. and in the USA by Sumiko . Africa and the Middle East In Iran by Khalij Hi-Fi, in Israel by Audio Fidelity, in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria by Triangle Sound & Vision, in South Africa by High End Audio Video and in Turkey by Actual Power.

Projectiondesign
USA based company that makes video projectors. Official homepage.
Distributed in Cyprus by P. Nikitas.

Professional Sound Corporation (PSC)
Manufactures pro and semi pro audio products for sound reinforcement and broadcast usage. Official homepage.

Professional Monitor Company (PMC)
UK based company that has been making TLA monitors for quite some time but is moving into the high end loudspeaker market space, makes both passive and active models. Also acts as the UK distributor for Bryston. Official homepage.
Distributed in Thailand by 4D Digital Land.

Proson See --> JWS International

Proton
Large Taiwanese manufacturer of consumer electronics, in the AV field it's mostly supplying home theatre amplifiers and TV's but was a large supplier of hi-fi particularly in the 80's both using it's own name and as an OEM. Better known in the new world than the old one and sometimes uses the Saga brandname. Official homepage. USA Homepage.

Proxima See --> ASK Proxima

PS Audio
Manufactures power conditioners and amplifiers, for background information on the company take a look at this interview. Official homepage. Distributed in Denmark and Norway by Golden Age Music, in Finland by Audist Oy., in Sweden by Audioprophile and in the UK by Ultimate Sonics.

PSB
Canadian loudspeaker manufacturer, part of the Lenbrook Industries group. Official homepage.
PSB Speakers International, 633 Granite Court, Pickering, Ontario Canada L1W 3K1.
Phone : +(905) 831 6555. Fax : +(905) 837 6357. Email : psb at mcn.org

Distributed in Canada and the USA by Lenbrook Industries, in the Chezh Republic by T/A Hi-Fi Store,in Switzerland by Dynavox SA and in the UK by Lenbrook UK.

PSC Audio
Australian manufacturer of cables, interconnects and power conditioning products. Official homepage.
Distributed in the USA by CC Audio

Pure
British company that manufactures a range of high tech multimedia, AV and Audio products. Started life in the 80's as a manufacturer of computer video cards called Videologic, facing demising returns and increasing competition it diversified by introducing a DAB decoding chip and had a hit on their hand when they introduced the Pure Evoke DAB radio in or around the turn of the millennium. To emphasise their increasingly diversified product lineup the company was renamed Pure although a number of multimedia products have been seen using the original name until recently. Official homepage. - Videologic homepage

Pure Silver Connection
Australian maker of high end cables. Official homepage.
Pure Silver Connection, Unit 1/121 Old Pitwater Road, Brookvale, NSW 2100 Australia.
Phone :+61 (2) 99711125. Fax : +61 (2) 99714372. Email : pscstell at idx.com.au

Purist Audio Design
USA based maker of cables and interconnects. Official homepage.

Pye See --> Philips

Pyle Audio
USA based company that sells Chinese sourced car audio products and AV accessories alongside semi-professional audio products under the Pyle Pro brand. Official homepage.
Pyle Audio INC., 1600 63rd.Street, Brooklyn N.Y. 11204, USA.
Tel : +718 236 8000. Fax : +718 236 2400. Email : sales at pyleaudio.com.

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