SpeakerComponents.com.au is a wholly owned division of Major Music Wholesale offering a range of specialist and professional speaker components as well as kits and plans for DIY enthusiasts and audiophiles. Our primary range of products is from the well established lineup of innovative speaker designs manufactured by Fostex.
The Fostex Company was founded in July 1973 by Foster Electric Co.,Ltd. (founded 1949), one of the world's largest developers of OEM speaker and transducer products, employing over 20,000 people in nine countries/territories.
Fostex Speakers - A brief history
Fostex was established to brand high quality speaker components from Foster and sell them direct to consumers and dealers in the Japanese marketplace. This area of the speaker component business is still something unique to Japan where there continues to be a high number of individuals designing and building their own speaker units at home, some for sale but many just for personal use.
Fostex speaker components initially won acclaim because they were an early developer of RP (Regular Phase) technology which provides for a very clear sound with high sensitivity and wide dynamic range. Today RP technology is well known worldwide not just for speakers but also microphones and headphones, with the Fostex T20RP being one of the most popular studio monitoring headphones in the United States.
In 1978 Fostex started to developed speakers units for professional use and with these products Fostex began to export worldwide causing the brand to became very well known with both hi-fi and professional manufacturers and users. The world's best selling small powered monitor speaker for broadcast and professional use continues to be the Fostex 6301B, still going strong after twenty years.
Through utilising Foster's China facility, following remarkable success in the Japanese market of the NF-1A and NF01A in 2000, which feature patented Hyperbolic Paraboloid (HP) diaphragm engineering, Fostex released the PM-1 speaker in 2002 which has now grown to be a range of three models including the PM-.5 and PM-2, offering budget conscious studios and musicians excellent audio monitoring at excellent price points. For more information on the Fostex range of monitor speakers click here.
Major Music Wholesale - Company Profile
Based in Sydney, Australia, Major Music Wholesale have been supplying professional recording solutions and hi-tech music and audio production solutions since 1995. Major Music represent a wide range of respected names in the audio & music industries and offer solutions including: location recorders, digital multi-track recorders, microphones, headphones, audio editing and production software, virtual instruments, acoustic control and audio PCs.
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