# European Hi-Fi & audio

> Ten European Hi-Fi brands: Linn, Naim, Rega, Cambridge Audio, Chord, dCS, Cyrus, Meridian, plus Devialet (FR) and T+A (DE). British dominance from £400 to £100k+.

European Hi-Fi and audio brands worth knowing | Euronomy

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High-end Hi-Fi is one of the very few large global product categories where Britain still genuinely dominates. Of the world's most respected high-end audio brands (turntables, amplifiers, DACs, network streamers), most are based in a roughly 200-mile arc of southern and central England plus one major Scottish maker. Linn (Glasgow), Naim (Salisbury), Rega (Essex), Cambridge Audio (London), Chord Electronics (Kent), dCS (Cambridge), Cyrus (Huntingdon), Meridian (Huntingdon). Between them they cover almost every price point from £400 to £100,000+ per component.

The British dominance has structural roots: small specialist engineering firms protected by enthusiast magazines (What Hi-Fi?, Hi-Fi News, Stereophile-UK) and a dealer network that took the category seriously through the 1970s-90s when American Hi-Fi mostly collapsed into mass-market consumer electronics. Plus one French outlier (Devialet) and a serious German high-end maker (T+A) that together round out the list.

Below: ten European Hi-Fi brands worth knowing. Note: Bowers & Wilkins (UK) and KEF (UK) are listed separately under Headphones since their wireless-and-headphone ranges are where most customers encounter them now. Both are equally serious Hi-Fi makers in their loudspeaker divisions.