Audio & Music

Scandinavian sustainability - TMA-2 Modular System enables repair and upgrade

Premium retro gaming hardware using FPGA - Analogue Pocket with 615ppi display

Century-old Danish luxury - Beosound A9 as world-class audio and sculptural statement

Organic digital - wooden enclosures and maple buttons, Organelle as standalone music computer

Audiophile IEMs with titanium drivers - Dream XLS as the reference for portable high-end listening

Swedish industrial design meets sequencing - Digitakt II, Digitone II

Ann Arbor record label with distinctive minimal aesthetic - vinyl, apparel, and design objects

Hand-built retro open-back headphones with mahogany and metal housings - family-owned since 1953

Democratized synthesis with Volca series

Modern thinking caps in lambskin, stainless steel, and aluminum from New York

Absurdist edge - nonsense machines as musical instruments, creators of the Otamatone

Grid interfaces and open platforms - the instrument as interface

Legendary status from Asheville - Grandmother semi-modular, Muse 8-voice analog poly

Transparent 'zero secrets' housing - founded with Teenage Engineering design partnership

Circuit Tracks and Launchpad - approachable grooveboxes bridging bedroom production and live performance

Deliberately lo-fi yellow handheld with hand crank - hardware by Teenage Engineering

Widest selection at various price points - Debut Carbon Evo with 10 color options

Minimalist industrial design headphone amps and DACs - Magni Unity fully discrete amp

Playful minimalism standard - OP-1 Field, EP-133 K.O. II, TX-6, Pocket Operators

Literal transparency with see-through glass panels and modular construction - Sonos compatible

Hand-assembled 'simple design, brilliant sound' turntables - Wirecutter's budget pick since 2019