Electronics
Leema Acoustics
Wales isn't only known for it's delicious lamb chops and perhaps the odd drop of rain but is now home to Leema Acoustics.
Leema Acoustics was originally founded in 1998 by ex-BBC engineers Lee Taylor and Mallory Nicholls. Following the success of their first loudspeaker product, Mallory and Lee decided to turn their expertise to audio electronics. Their first product, the Tucana integrated amplifier, was released early in 2006, winning the distinguished Hi Fi News amplifier of the year award later that year. Shortly afterwards, the Antila CD player was introduced and once again, almost immediately won the prestigious What Hi-Fi? Sound & Vision best CD player award in 2007.
Since then, Leema’s portfolio of class leading products has expanded to include their Reference and Elements Ranges, and more recently the Essentials line. The new products continue to attract international acclaim, attracting many “best in class” reviews and numerous eminent awards.
Micromega
For over twenty years, Micromega has proudly designed and manufactured some of the world’s best-regarded digital and analogue audio ‘hi-fi’ equipment.
Combining the highest level of faithful music reproduction, revolutionary aesthetics, reliability and user friendliness, Micromega is one of just a few audio companies who have truly changed the world of high fidelity music reproduction by achieving a perfect balance of technical innovation and performance
In 2011, Micromega offers a new compact range of products at the forefront of technology that are designed and manufactured entirely in France. Best of all, they will be sold at extremely attractive prices! And so, the new "MY" range is born. The first product - MyDAC - was launched at the Munich High End show in May 2012. This new DAC with a revolutionary power supply, jitter-free performance and an attractive, innovative design that has extraordinary performance. In 2012, Micromega adds a headphone amp - MyZic - and a MM / MC phono preamp - MyGroov – to the "MY" range. In 2013, Micromega engineers develop a new Integrated - MyAMP – to add to the line.
ModWright Instruments
ModWright was founded in 2000 as a company producing modifications to digital products. The mods were cost-effective, yet high quality alternative to the audio enthusiast.
Born from this, their Truth series of modifications, utilising tube analog stages, won ModWright worldwide acclaim and led them to the next step: building own equipment.
The 9.0 series of preamplifiers was introduced in 2003, continuing the trend of high performance audio with an emphasis on quality and value. This included a phono preamplifier and later a balanced tube linestage, the LS 36.5. In 2009 ModWright proudly released the KWA 150 amplifier to round out a complete ModWright Electronics system.
ModWright have continued on this path of building high quality and high value audio equipment, designed to provide the most natural and satisfying musical experience.
Oppo
Founded in 2004 by Tony Chen, Oppo are best known for their high-end Blu-ray players and have recently entered in to the high-end headphone market. Oppo have received numerous awards and outstanding reviews for their products.
Oppo's Blu-ray players are not just another typical disc player, with the internal DAC, headphone input and streaming facilities, the audiophiles amongst us we be pleased at what this one box solution can acheive. We are blown away with the amount of features the BDP-105D has with no loss of quality.
Witch Hat Audio
Late 2012 Witch Hat Audio launched a range of cables to compliment their Service division and in early 2014 the Moonlight range of amplifiers was launched. Here at DB Hi-Fi, if we had to put what we hear in words, we would say 'It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog!'. Once you hear what these sleek and elegantly designed ampifiers have to offer, I think you would agree.