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System Audio








It was the year 1984. At that time loudspeakers had to be gigantic and technically complicated. This was when System Audio introduced its first loudspeaker, and the press was amazed and wrote: ”This loudspeaker sets new standards”. But this loudspeaker was not like all the others, because it was a compact speaker with big sound. A loudspeaker that was created in fascination of excellent sound – and not just technology. A loudspeaker that showed a new way. 
a company with soul

It was Ole Witthøft, who founded System Audio A/S back in 1984. For a long time he had been looking for some really good loudspeakers and as a musician he knew how music should sound. Ole explains: ”There were no loudspeakers that could reproduce the music in a live way. Most of them sounded boring. If you do not hear the details of the sound or sense the feeling because the reproduction is too poor, then you will never experience how exciting music can be. I wondered why the loudspeakers were competing about the best technical specifications when it is the sound that matters”. 


Therefore he decided to build his own loudspeakers. Within a few years the demand for Ole Witthøft’s loudspeakers increased and in 1984 System Audio A/S was a reality.
Today Ole Witthøft is the leader of the R/D department at System Audio A/S. Millions have been invested in product development and a team of experts are constantly working to ensure that System Audio loudspeakers will keep on showing new ways. 

System Audio´s first loudspeaker model


the difference is clear to anyone

System Audio loudspeakers are sold almost worldwide. Our customers are people that love excellent sound for music and movies, but also recording studios, TV stations and musicians of all ages. Ole Witthøft explains: ”We do not only make loudspeakers for experts, everybody is able to appreciate good sound. Our aim is to make the difference so big that anyone can hear it.” 

a company with attitudes

System Audio does not ask what the market expects from us because the whole idea of our company was formed in 1984 as Ole Witthøft discovered that the loudspeakers of the market were not good enough. System Audio sets its own standards because our products start with an idea. We will not contribute to the confusion that loudspeakers are just about technology. To System Audio it is absolutely clear that the quality comes from the sound and the loudspeakers being able to be a natural piece of furniture in the living room. 

a confusing industry

When meeting the audio industry most people will tell you that your hi-fi system must have been produced in the Far East. Loudspeakers in plastic are included almost for free and the price for such a system corresponds to the price for a pair of good shoes. Others will tell you that you should listen to the music on your computer because that is “good enough”. Some will tell you that a loudspeaker is about design because you cannot hear the difference anyway. You will be recommended to read hi-fi magazines where the ”journalists” magnify their personal ideas into truth. They will tell you that sound is a very complicated thing and in order to understand the subject, you have to read a hi-fi magazine. Some will tell you that loudspeakers cost yearly pay and require that you re-arrange your living room or your house. Almost everybody will tell you that you must be interested in technology because this is where the real difference in loudspeakers is to be found.
System Audio does not agree to any of those attitudes. We are a different company that has no original roots within the audio industry. We do not want to contribute to the confusion. We rather want to contribute to understanding. 


sound is a universal language

We know that all people have the ability of appreciating good sound. This is a human quality. Small children enjoy good music before they can read and write! You only need to listen to an orchestra for very few seconds before you can judge whether the musicians like to play today or whether the spirit is missing. Music follows us through all of our lives, intensifies and emphasises feelings and keeps memories. Music is understood and used by all people and can describe meanings and feelings where words alone are not enough. And if you have tried just once to see a movie without sound, then you know that the sound is at least half of a movie experience. 

sound is a universal language

We know that all people have the ability of appreciating good sound. This is a human quality. Small children enjoy good music before they can read and write! You only need to listen to an orchestra for very few seconds before you can judge whether the musicians like to play today or whether the spirit is missing. Music follows us through all of our lives, intensifies and emphasises feelings and keeps memories. Music is understood and used by all people and can describe meanings and feelings where words alone are not enough. And if you have tried just once to see a movie without sound, then you know that the sound is at least half of a movie experience. 

design is a universal language

It is wrong to think that design is just a way of “wrapping” a product. It is not that simple. System Audio sees the design as the ability of the product to function in the real world. When we realise that it is the acoustics in most living rooms that is the biggest hindrance to obtain good sound, it is the design in our loudspeakers that makes them less sensitive to the acoustics of the living room than conventional speakers. It is an electro-acoustic design, but it is still design. If we were not interested in electro-acoustic design, we would just expect you to change your living room when you buy loudspeakers. It is also design when we think of the way the loudspeaker co-operates with the amplifier, and makes the loudspeaker a so-called “easy load”. System Audio does not produce amplifiers so who could accuse us if we said that it is the amplifier producers’ responsibility to adjust their products to our loudspeakers? Because we do not want to require that you buy a new hi-fi system, when you buy new loudspeakers. Design is to think of how the product functions in the best possible way. And System Audio sees it as a task that includes all the technical disciplines at the same time as form and colours.
This makes our idea of design incontrovertible and universal as you cannot discuss whether a loudspeaker should function in the acoustics of a room, because it must. Or if the loudspeaker has to co-operate with an amplifier, because it must. You cannot either talk about whether a loudspeaker sounds better, when it is placed visibly in the living room or as a central piece of furniture, because it does. 

This is the task: to make the loudspeaker beautiful enough to deserve a placement among the other furniture. In other words you cannot help designing a product, but you can make it difficult for the product to function in the real world, and this is poor design. Design is a language. It is not spoken by those who do not have anything on their minds. 

we do not believe in analyses

In modern business people speak proudly about market surveys, statistics, opinion polls and other methods of letting the attitudes of the consumer guide a company. Companies almost magnifies the analyses into a holy status because the only thing that matters is to satisfy the customers, as they want to be satisfied. One day a company speaks well for one case and when the consumers have forgotten it, it speaks well for another. The companies’ products and opinion of quality only change when the opinion of the customers changes.
System Audio is a different kind of company because we do not work with consumer surveys. We think it is our own responsibility to run our business. It is not enough to satisfy the customers, we want to surprise them. And we want to satisfy ourselves by producing products we would like to own ourselves. Most products in the shops look the same and function in almost the same way because they are made based on consumer surveys. Therefore, it almost does not make any difference what you buy. Consumers who fill out questionnaires will always relate to the world they already know and naturally, they do not know which new technologies exist. Manufacturers that do not know which way to go, rather ask the consumers what they want. But the consumers want what they always get, maybe a little cheaper, maybe another colour and the manufacturers take this as a sign that there is no need for development. System Audio dares to take a stand, because this is the basis of our company. 

 

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