Denon
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha |
| founding | 1910 |
| Seat | Kawasaki , Japan |
| Website | www.denon.de |
Denon is a manufacturer of hi-fi and home theater products. The company was founded in 1910 and introduced, among other things, digital pulse code modulation audio technology (PCM) to the mass market, which is seen as the basis for the creation of the compact disc . Denon is part of D & M Holdings Inc .
Company history
In 1910 the American entrepreneur Frederick Whitney Horn founded the Nippon Chikuonki Shoukai (Japan Recorders Corporation). Together with Japanese trading partners, he introduced the new company's first products. It was a single-sided long-playing record and a gramophone . The current brand name Denon was introduced in the 1930s.
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Denon introduced a number of innovations, including the first professional vinyl recorder (1939), the first stereo records and stereos in Japan (1951) and the first PCM recorder, which is the technological basis of today's CD (1970). In 1982 Denon released the first CD player for home use (type DCD-2000). When it came to introducing home theater technology, Denon was the first to introduce an A / V amplifier with Dolby Digital support, and in 2009 the first universal disc player for Blu-ray Disc technology.
In 2002 Denon merged with competitor Marantz to form D&M Holdings Inc. , a merger of Denon, Marantz, McIntosh , Boston Acoustics, Snell, Escient, Denon DJ, Calrec, D&M Professional and D&M Premium Sound Solutions, which was later renamed the D + M Group has been.
In 2011 the American company Sound United took over the D + M Group.
Denon as a record label
Denon was since 1969 for several decades a label for records and CD releases of the Nippon Columbia , especially in the field of jazz and classical music. The label was established to publish Japanese folk and pop music . In 1971 the first recording was published that was digitally recorded using the PCM process, from 1972 works of classical music with European interpreters followed ( Mozart's string quartets KV 421 and 458 with the Smetana Quartet .) 1974 followed with Bach's musical sacrifice ( Paillard Chamber Orchestra ) the first PCM production in Europe. From 1976 jazz recordings were added that were mainly recorded in New York City , such as One Tuesday in New York by Takashi Mizuhashi / Herbie Hancock as the first production or The Art of the Saxophone (1987) by Bennie Wallace . Numerous recordings were initially produced by Reggie Workman , such as Archie Shepp , Tommy Flanagan , Jo Jones and Billy Harper . When the CD was launched in 1982 , Denon already had 400 digital recordings available. The label was not economically successful in the beginning. That changed after Sonny Lester became the producer in 1986. His first production was Long Live the Chief with the Count Basie Orchestra ( Ghost Band under the direction of Frank Foster ). More than 50 jazz recordings had been released by 1996, including those with Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus , Abdullah Ibrahim , Count Basie and Carmen McRae , but also newcomers such as Bob Berg and the vocal band Ritz . The label later also bought the catalog from Savoy Records and released its material. The catalog has been kept by the Savoy Label Group since 2001.
literature
- The History of Nippon Columbia. The 80th Anniversary. Tokyo 1990
- John Shepherd (Ed.) Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Volume 1. 2003, pp. 708f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ vinylengine.com 2002-2020, Denon DP-3000 , accessed on May 23, 2020th
- ↑ Sound United takes over the DM Group , musikmedia.de , accessed July 2, 2019
- ↑ a b Thomas Fine: The Dawn of Commercial Digital Recording , in ARSC Journal XXXIX, 2008 (PDF, 1.33 MB)