Quadral (company)
| quadral GmbH & Co. KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1972 |
| Seat |
Hanover Germany
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| management | Volker Schwerdtfeger |
| Branch | Consumer electronics |
| Website | www.quadral.com |
The quadral GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer and sales of hi - and high-end speakers and high-quality hi-fi components. The company is located in Hanover in the Herrenhausen district .
quadral is one of the largest German hi-fi speaker manufacturers. The company name is made up of the term Quadrofonie and the name of the original sales company, all-Akustik. The company sells its products worldwide. The range of speakers ranges from floorstanding and shelf boxes to various home theater and surround systems. In addition, quadral offers a series of high-quality speakers and high-end electronic components in the upper price segment under the name Aurum . quadral is a member of the High End Society marketing community.
history
In 1972 Hans-Dieter Hoffmann, Helmut Pabel, Horst Enders and Friedel Hofmann founded the company all-Akustik in Hanover for the distribution of consumer electronics. Companies such as Luxman and Sansui as hi-fi component manufacturers, Fujifilm with audio / video cassettes and camcorders, Citizen and the record player manufacturer Micro Seiki ensured that all-Akustik became one of the largest German hi-fi distributors. After own loudspeakers had already been marketed under the names all and quand , a new loudspeaker brand was introduced in 1973 with quadral. In 1981, the Titan I developed by Helmut Schaper was tested with outstanding results and held the top position in the specialist magazine Stereoplay as a reference model in its three stages of development for over eight years.
The Titan III was named Device of the Year 1987 by the readers of Hifi Vision magazine. In 1988 quadral developed and manufactured three loudspeaker models for Blaupunkt for their ArTech series. In the 1990s, LM traffic saw new product lines in the car hi-fi sector, in the multimedia and PC loudspeaker sector, as well as satellite receivers and antennas. Since 1992, sales have taken place uniformly under the name quadral, all-Akustik still serves as the parent company.
Schaper refined his development of the Titan until 1996 to the partially active version V. In 1998 Berndt Stark came from JBL and was in charge of loudspeaker development until he switched to Burmester Audiosysteme in 2005 . In 2000 quadral took over the German distribution of Nakamichi and Sherwood .
In 2006 quadral brought the Chinese manufacturer Hisense with flat screen televisions onto the German market. In 2009, Jürgen Brinkmann, Edmond Semmelhaack, Björn Semmelhaack and Stefan Eisenhardt, the second generation of shareholders, took over the management of the company.
In 2011, quadral started its own electronics series under the name Aurum, consisting of amplifiers and CD players handcrafted in Germany. At the same time, sales of the French hi-fi brand Advance Acoustic and the cable manufacturer Supra were taken over. The sound engineer Sascha Reckert , who previously worked for the company, became the chief developer .
Most models have their own loudspeaker chassis, which can be recognized by the brand-specific basket shape, e.g. B. ALTIMA membranes made of aluminum, titanium and magnesium, which have been tried and tested for many years. Also have ribbon speaker and magnetostats a long tradition at quadral and built since its establishment in various models.
Products
- 1981: Titan
- 1981: volcano
- 1983: Montan
- 1983: Amun
- 1983: Shogun
Sponsorship
quadral was a sponsor of the Hanover Indians ice sports club during the 2016/2017 season .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Schwerdtfeger takes over the quadral management from Edmond Semmelhaack CE & Trade digitalMarkt , December 22, 2015
- ^ Association members of the High End Society , accessed on October 13, 2018
- ↑ Company information on kompany.wiwo.de ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Quadral Program 1985 , accessed June 5, 2019,
- ^ All catalog 1975 , pages 18 & 19
- ↑ all-news , test edition 1978, page 27
- ↑ a b press kit of the company on German Pavilions . accessed on October 13, 2018
- ↑ Download the test report of the Titan I from Stereoplay from December 1981
- ↑ Brochure of the Titan V from 1995
- ^ Advertisement for readers' choice The devices of the year 1987 , Hifi Vision March 1988
- ↑ List of Blaupunkt Artech producers by model on New Hifi Classics , November 11, 2007
- ↑ Blaupunkt L-107 in the radiomuseum , accessed on October 13, 2018.
- ↑ Product archive of the manufacturer <- no longer available
- ↑ Picture gallery for the presentation of the Titan VIII Connect , October 26, 2011
- ↑ a b Test of the Titan VIII fairaudio.de August 2012
- ↑ In Dieter Burmester's factory, audio technology for discerning people is created Berliner Zeitung , November 20, 2009
- ^ Hisense: New flat TVs in the German market audiomap.de , March 31, 2006
- ↑ a b Quadral management team is now complete i-fidelity.net February 1st, 2013
- ↑ test the volcano VIII fairaudio.de, October 2014
- ↑ quadral - the new sound of the EC Hannover Indians , August 30, 2016
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 7.5 ″ N , 9 ° 41 ′ 7.5 ″ E