Yorkville Sound

Yorkville Sound is a Canadian manufacturer of audio amplifiers, speakers and audio equipment for professional use. The company is headquartered in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. It develops and manufactures its own components and can customize these in-house. In the import and export business for its audio products, the company is represented globally.

Yorkville Sound manages its own brands Traynor and Yorkville and sells other brands such as Apex and Applied Research and Technology (ART). It takes over sales in North America for the manufacturer Hughes & Kettner ( guitars and amplifiers ), Epiphone guitars, Gibson guitars, Garrison Guitars, Ritter bags, Beyerdynamic microphones and Gallien- Krueger amplifier.

History

Yorkville Sound was created in 1963 in a back room of the music business Long & McQuade in the Yonge Street in the Yorkville district. Peter Traynor worked as an electrical technician, repaired the amplifier and amplifier own self-developed, including new bass amp with the name Dynabass. These resistant and resilient devices he began to rent.

The end of 1963 Traynor began selling its Dynabass amplifier. He entered into a partnership with Jack Long, the partners of the music business, in order to sell his amp with the new business Yorkville Sound and the new Traynor logo. Long held a two-thirds majority in the new company, while Traynor has been involved to one-third of it. In 1965 the company was officially under the brand name Yorkville Sound Limited - Long as President and Traynor as Vice President. In the same year, the company moved to the Dundas Street in Toronto. 1966 other products were brought to market. The YVM -1 Voice Master was a portable 45 - watt amplifier, four-channel combined with a microphone mixer. The concept of the portable amplifier quickly became popular with musicians was and was also an inspiration for the competition, which introduced the Vocal Master line of Shure 1967. In 1972, the company expanded and opened offices in the UK and in Sweden. 1976 Peter Traynor left the company. The Traynor brand was slowly taken off the market and re-introduced only in 2000. The son of Jack Long took over in 1981 the shops of Yorkville Sound. 1981-1982 built Yorkville Sound loudspeakers for the North American market by Martin Audio. For Martin Audio saved the cost of shipping over the Atlantic Ocean. 1983 Yorkville Sound began with the development and construction of separate concert speakers, the sound crew model range. In 1985, the élite series of portable speakers and the audio application series were introduced by electronic amplifiers. A 1000 Watt subwoofer is placed in 1986 under the name of SW -1000 on the market.

In 1991 a new monitor speaker series has been developed. In 1996, Yorkville one the TX line of concert - tour - speakers. 2001 mandated the Yorkville designer Tom Danley to design the new Unity series of speakers and the 2003 came on the market. The Unity design has been licensed from Sound Physics Labs Inc..

Products and services

  • Professional loudspeaker systems ( concert speaker )
  • Amplifier
  • Passive Mixer
  • Powered Mixers
  • Instrumentation Amplifiers
  • Monitor speakers
  • Lighting systems
  • Sales to other manufacturers
Types of business entity Pickering (Ontario) Gibson Guitar Corporation
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