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Type | Private |
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Industry | Consumer electronics |
Founded | 1983 |
Headquarters | Hemel Hempstead, Britain |
Products | Hi-Fi and Home cinema Loudspeakers |
Website | Epos |
Epos Ltd is a British loudspeaker company that specialises in home cinema and hi-fi speakers.
Epos was founded in 1983 by Robin Marshall. In 1988 Epos was sold to Mordaunt-Short who had been bought by the TGI PLC group in 1987. When the TGI PLC group decided to close the Epos/Mordaunt-Short operations in 1999, the Epos part was sold to Michael Creek, the owner and managing director of Creek Audio Ltd.
In 2020 Creek sold the Epos operation to Karl-Heinz Fink, founder of German speaker designer firm FinkTeam. [1]
Current Epos speakers are split into two ranges, the budget ELS series and the high end Mi series.
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