List of phonograph manufacturers

An advertisement for Edison New Standard Phonograph, 1898

An advertisement for the Columbia Grafonola

This is a list of phonograph manufacturers. The phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone, record player or turntable, is a device introduced in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. Phonographs can also specifically refer to machines that only play Phonograph cylinders, the gramophone is an advanced version of the phonograph that only plays disc Phonograph records. Record players and turntables usually refer to more modern machines. ^[1]

Phonograph manufacturers

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

• Abbingdon Music Research
• Acoustic Research
• Acoustic Signature ^[2]
• Akai
• Alphason
• AnalogueWorks ^[3]
• Audio-Technica
• Bang & Olufsen
• Bergman
• Birmingham Sound Reproducers aka BSR
• Brinkmann Audio GmbH ^[4]
• Cambridge Audio
• Clearaudio Electronic
• Collaro
• Columbia Graphophone Company
• Columbia Gramophone Company ^{[5] [6]}
• Columbia Phonograph Company ^{[7] [8]}
• Connoisseur
• Crosley
• Dansette
• Denon
• Dohmann Audio ^[9]
• Dr. Feickert Analogue ^[10]
• Dual
• EMG
• Empire
• Garrard Engineering and Manufacturing Company
• Gemini Sound Products
• Goldring
• Gramophone Company
• Graphophone
• Grundig
• Harman Kardon
• Hitachi
• IGB Eletrônica
• JBL
• J.Sikora ^{[11] [12]}
• JVC
• Kimball Phonograph
• Kuzma ^[13]
• Kyocera
• Langer
• Lenco Turntables
• Linn Products
• Logic
• London Decca ^{[14] [15]}
• Luxman
• Luxor
• Lyric Phonograph Company ^[16]
• Magnavox
• Michell ^[17]
• Musical Fidelity
• NAD Electronics
• Maplenoll
• Marantz
• McIntosh Labs
• Mitsubishi
• Mofi Electronics (Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs)
• Nakamichi
• National Phonograph Company ^[18]
• North American Phonograph Company ^{[7] [19]}
• Nottingham Analogue Studio ^[20]
• Numark Industries
• Origin Live
• Ortofon
• Onkyo
• Pacific Phonograph Company
• Paillard
• Panasonic
• Philips
• Pink Triangle
• Pioneer Corporation
• Pro-Ject
• RCA
• Realistic
• Rega Research
• Roksan Audio
• Sansui Electric
• Sanyo
• Seka Phonograph Company ^[21]
• Silvertone Sold by Sears
• Simon Yorke
• SME Limited
• Sonora Phonograph Company ^[22]
• Sony Corporation
• Stanton Magnetics
• TEAC
• TechDAS ^[23]
• Technics
• Telefunken
• Tesla
• Thorens
• Transcriptors ^[24]
• Townshend Audio
• U-Turn Audio ^[25]
• Vestax
• Victor Talking Machine Company
• V-M Corporation - Voice of Music
• VPI Industries
• Webster-Chicago -Webcor
• Wagner Audio ^[26]
• Well Tempered Lab ^[27]
• Wilson Benesch
• Win Laboratories ^[28]
• Yamaha Corporation
• Yamaha Pro Audio

• 
  A Lyricera Phonograph Company phonograph
• 
  A Victor Talking Machine
• 
  An RCA Victor Special Portable Phonograph, c. 1935
• 
  Philips vintage turntable
• 
  A Dual P 53 record player with 1210 turntable
• 
  Arija 102 turntable (Soviet Union)
• 
  A Numark Industries TTX-1 turntable
• 
  A Technics turntable
• 
  A Pro-Ject 1xpression Comfort turntable
• 
  A Vestax PDX-3000 DJ turntable
• 
  McIntosh MT10 Precision Turntable

By region

United States

In 1890 in the United States, many phonograph companies existed that had state- and region-based names, such as Alabama Phonograph Company, Colorado and Utah Phonograph Company, Kansas Phonograph Company, New England Phonograph Company, etc. ^[29]

See also

• Phonograph record
• List of bass amplifier and loudspeaker manufacturers
• List of compact disc player manufacturers
• List of loudspeaker manufacturers
• List of microphone manufacturers
• List of record labels
• Nipper the dog

References

1. Williamson, James (2024-09-10). "Gramophone Vs Record Player (In-Depth Difference)". Turntable Wave. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
2. "Acoustic Signature". acoustic-signature.com/en/.
3. "AnalogueWorks – British Turntables". analogueworks.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
4. "Brinkmann Audio GmbH". www.brinkmann-audio.de/.
5. Meyer Brothers Druggist. C.F.G. Meyer. 1917. p. 118.
6. Mitchell, J.A. (1918). Life. Life. p. 4.
7. Gaudreault, A. (2009). American Cinema 1890–1909: Themes and Variations. Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema. Rutgers University Press. p. 29. ISBN   978-0-8135-4644-5.
8. Burgess, R.J. (2014). The History of Music Production. Oxford University Press. p. 13. ISBN   978-0-19-938501-0.
9. "Dohmann Audio". dohmannaudio.com.
10. "Dr. Feickert Analogue". www.feickert.org.
11. "J.Sikora - New generation turntables". Archived from the original on 2016-06-05. Retrieved 2025-03-26.
12. "Analog Corner #323: J.Sikora Reference turntable and KV12 VTA tonearm". Stereophile.com. June 21, 2022.
13. "Kuzma". kuzma.si.
14. London Decca Cartridges
15. "Welcome to Presence Audio". presenceaudio.com.
16. The Phonoscope. Phonoscope Publishing Company. 1899. p. 21.
17. The Absolute Sound. Absolute Sound, Limited. 1995.
18. Thomas A. Edison Inc; National Phonograph Co (1910). Edison Amberola Monthly. Pennant Litho, Incorporated. p. 14.
19. Kenney, William Howland (1999). Recorded Music in American Life : The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 24–25. ISBN   978-0-19-802604-4.
20. "Nottingham Analogue Studio". nottinghamanaloguestudio.co.uk.
21. "Discogs". Discogs .
22. Douglas, A. (1999). Radio Manufacturers of the 1920s, Volume 3. Sonoran Pub. pp. 106–107. ISBN   978-1-886606-04-3.
23. "TechDAS". techdas.jp.
24. Gramophone. General Gramophone Publications Limited. 1978.
25. "U-Turn Orbit: An audiophile-quality turntable for $179". 7 December 2013.
26. "Wagner Audio".
27. "Well Tempered Lab".
28. Bonnier Corporation (July 1978). Popular Science. Bonnier Corporation. pp. 50–. ISSN   0161-7370.
29. Proceedings of First Annual Convention of Local Phonograph Companies of the United States Held at Chicago, May 28 and 29, 1890. Phonograph Printing Company. 1890. p. 98.

Further reading

• Kennedy, R.; McNutt, R. (1999). Little Labels--big Sound: Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music . Indiana University Press. p.  25. ISBN   978-0-253-33548-7.