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Audioplan was founded in 1980 as an alternative high-end studio by my parents, Volker and Renate Kühn. True to their chosen motto, “It’s all about the sound”, all products in the catalog are selected only after they have been compared in numerous and auditions that often last for hours. A good school for listening, concentration and patience for me, son Thomas Kühn, who accompanied the enterprise from the beginning with interest and commitment. A school that gained importance when I began my own development and basic research into cables and audio power supply and helps me even today to overcome difficult hurdles in new developments.

But first came the development and experimental designs of my first own loudspeaker, the Kontrast I, in 1981. The motivation arose from the desire to bring the superior sound quality of our reference speakers at the time to a more affordable product. The result was a compact 2-way loudspeaker with high-quality drivers, crossovers with foil capacitors and air cores carefully matched by ear and a complex sandwich box that was introduced to the market in 1982. The loudspeaker, which came with custom-designed, free-standing pedestals, optically contrasted to the usual design of the time with its slender front and extended depth. The typical speaker during this period in Germany was a flat and relatively wide three-way system, which could be integrated into a shelf or wall unit in the living room.

The loudspeaker was successful, however, and has remained to this day a standard for the typical design with a narrow and relatively deep enclosure.


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