Onkyo

The Onkyo Corporation is a manufacturer of consumer electronics, based in Osaka ( Japan).

History

The company was founded in 1946 by Osaka Denki Onkyo KK as Osaka Denki founded and initially limited to the production of tone arms for record players. In the years that followed, inter alia, also stereos joined the product range. In 1981, the first double cassette player for end users with features such as copying in high speed and simultaneous mixing on the market. Four years later developed the first Onkyo CD player with an optical data transfer. Onkyo means " sound harmony ". Still today there is an unwritten law in Onkyo that the staff in the development can play at least one instrument must.

Current Development

Onkyo is now next to Denon, Pioneer, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sony and Yamaha one of the largest manufacturer of entertainment and audio electronics. Instrumental in the are stereo and multi- channel amplifier, A / V receiver and DVD player. In this area, Onkyo introduced new technologies such as WRAT (Wide Range Amplifier Technology ) and a well-established standards such as the Ethernet interface in its AV and stereo receivers and amplifiers, eg for access to Internet radio channels or DLNA server. Onkyo offers for the latter an Android app to, with the audio files on your smartphone via WLAN / Ethernet decoded by the amplifier and can be issued.

The previous high-end models of Onkyo 's labeled " Integra" and especially the THX -certified receivers were pioneering.