Loudspeakers

Not many start-up hi-fi companies begin business with two centuries of experience behind them, but that's what Fyne Audio can claim for its seven-strong core team. After a couple of takeovers of Tannoy – being first swallowed up by Danish speaker company TC, itself later acquired by Uli Behringer's Music Group – that team, formerly running the famous Coatbridge factory, found itself with not much to manage. So, moving on, it founded Fyne Audio with investment from overseas, as well as significant funding from Scottish Enterprise. It designs and engineers its products at its HQ in Lanarkshire, with a technical team led by Dr Paul Mills, a Tannoy veteran of almost 27 years, and formerly that company's Director of Research and Engineering for domestic products. Incidentally, the Tannoy name lives on as part of Music Group, alongside brands such as Midas, Lake and Turbosound, but its main focus these days is on the pro audio sector.