M&K Sound

For more than four decades, M&K Sound has been highly regarded by the audio press, film and music industries, and home users looking for the best speakers for music and home theater. Building on a truly unique heritage and strong market presence that transcends the traditional boundaries between professional and consumer audio, M&K Sound is committed to continuing to offer performance, reliability and value for money that are second to none. M&K pioneered the future with the world's first satellite/subwoofer system, David & Goliath in 1976. The following year, M&K Sound introduced the Volkswoofer, the world's first subwoofer with an integrated and dedicated power amplifier. The journey began in 1973, when Steely Dan's Walter Becker commissioned M&K Sound to design a studio reference subwoofer and monitoring system for the Logic LP mixing sessions. The result was the first balanced dual-drive subwoofer, and Pretzel Logic became one of Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. M&K Sound combined its expertise in live music recording and loudspeaker design, drawing heavily on the research and acoustics of Dr. Lester Field, who had worked at Bell Telephone Research Laboratories and was a full professor at the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University, before retiring as chief scientist and vice president of research at Hughes Aircraft Corporation. Combining creativity, critical listening and extensive experience in live sound with scientific methodology and experience, the foundations for M&K Sound were laid. With word of mouth spreading rapidly throughout the music and motion picture industries, M&K Sound systems have been created for major movie studios, as well as home installations for producers, directors, actors and recording artists. M&K Sound loudspeakers have been chosen for the development and demonstration of the innovative Dolby Digital and surround format, for the first public demonstration of the high resolution Blu-ray format, for sound production on Star Wars episodes I-III and countless other award-winning music, film and TV productions.