Daniel Hertz S.A.
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| Industry | High-end audio |
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| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | Mark Levinson |
| Products | Audio equipment |
Daniel Hertz S.A. is a high-performance audio company based in Switzerland. The company makes high-efficiency loudspeakers, power amplifiers, pre-amplifiers, integrated amplifiers, and audio processing software. Daniel Hertz provides consulting services to major companies like LG Electronics of Korea and semiconductor firm Intersil (Milpitas, CA, USA).
Daniel Hertz was founded in 2007 by audio industry legend Mark Levinson, a multi-instrumentalist, recording and mastering engineer, equipment designer and serial entrepreneur. Levinson previously founded Mark Levinson Audio Systems, Cello Ltd. and Red Rose Music. The company name combines the given name of Levinson's father with his mother's family name. His father Daniel Levinson was a professor of psychology at Yale University, his mother Maria is a grandniece of German physicist Heinrich Hertz, for whom the scientific unit for cycles-per-second is named. It can be said that Hertz demonstrations were the beginning of audio.
Loudspeakers from Daniel Hertz are noted for high sensitivity (the flagship bi-amplified M1 model is rated at 100 dB/1W/1M), natural sound and elegant design, with the ability to reproduce the recording as fully and faithfully as possible. Daniel Hertz amplifiers are similarly designed for natural sound and dynamics, with special attention paid to the milliwatt region, the power range where most of the music occurs in typical playback situations with high-sensitivity loudspeakers.
Daniel Hertz "Master Class" audio processing software (for use with Apple computers) provides more analog sound and feeling from digital sources, and allows the user to match the recordings to the system by a six-band equalizer (the digital version on the legendary Cello Audio Palette). Daniel Hertz position is that the recording is the most important part of the system and for the best result it should be fine tuned to play on the given playback system.
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