History
In 2001, Song Audio was established by its eponymous founder, Song Kim, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Song Audio was one of the first to import and distribute single-driver crossover-less high sensitivity loudspeakers from Asia (Loth-X from Singapore). Though the renaissance of low power triode output vacuum tube amplifiers and single-driver loudspeakers is more established in Asian and European markets, interest has been developing in North America. In Canada, Song Audio remains the only importer to source manufacture of high-end products from Thailand (particularly, Vasant_K).
Song Audio produces its products in limited quantities and distributes primarily in North America. The Company is non-mainstream in the high-end community; for example, it avoids parallel design in output tubes in purist grounds and does not provide remote control handsets in its products. The Company adopts a legacy approach to its products by not phasing any out of production (its earliest products are still in production) and supports their usage worldwide by having a user-adjustable internal voltage switch between 120V/60Hz (North America) and 220V/50Hz (Europe and Asia).
The Company is based in north-central Toronto (near Steeles Avenue and Yonge Street). In Toronto, its products are represented by Audio Empire (north-west Toronto) and Executive Stereo (central uptown Toronto).
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