YAMAHA
Hi-fi since 1954 · a company born in 1887
- Founded
- 1887
- Landmark product
- The NS-1000M of 1974, with its beryllium diaphragms
- Official site
- yamaha.com ↗(opens in a new tab)
- Company founded in 1887 — pianos and organs before anything else
- Hi-fi begins in 1954, with the Yamaha HiFi Player, presented by the brand as the first audio device to carry the name “HiFi”
- Milestones: NS-20 Natural Sound in 1958 · first Pure Class A amplifier in 1973 · NS-1000M with beryllium diaphragms and B-1 amplifier in 1974 · CT-7000 tuner in 1975
Recognisable without a logo
The white and pale wood of the Natural Sound line, and the idea that a musical instrument and a machine for reproducing music belong to the same trade. Yamaha is the only audio manufacturer of this size that also builds the instruments it reproduces.
What we made of it
Hors-série no. 1 — seventy years of high fidelity, counted from 1954 — and a pair in production on an Onitsuka Tiger.
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