Northern California is an inspiring environment. The
wine, the food, the weather, even the music around here is full of a light
and life that's hard to find anywhere else. We like to think that a little bit
of that feeling makes its way into every loudspeaker that we design here
in Benicia.
One thing becomes immediately clear during a tour of the NHT offices: we're
music guys. Just about everyone involved in the design, marketing, and
support of our products plays an instrument or two. This constant exposure
to live music makes us unapologetic Perfectionists when it comes to speaker
design.
NHTPro recording
monitors have been used in numerous studio sessions that resulted in many
of your favorite records. It's one thing to build a speaker that sounds
nice. It's another thing entirely to build
a speaker that shows you what's really going on in a performance.
It's only thing to believe your own hype and think
you build a good product; it's quite another to have some of the most respected
names in the business say so. Since our founding in 1987, we've earned
a lobby full of product-of the-year awards, and accolades just keep on
coming. Please drop by our web site, or local newsstand to see who's talking
about us today.
NHT's first
family of product, a year and a half after the start of operations. The
Zero, Model 1 and Model 2 loudspeakers. These models stayed in the line
for many years. The larger rectangular box was the Octave, basically a
passive subwooofer designed for the Zero. Then there was the VA-1, NHT's
first attempt at an electronics product, but we don't like to talk about
it.
When NHT started,
our sales office was in Fullerton, CA in Chris's backyard. Ken's lab was
in San Francisco. This is our first production model 1. Serial number 00001.
It's like taking pictures of your kids, years later you wonder why you
took it.
The two founders
of NHT, Chris Byrne and Ken Kantor. This was our first real CES show, no
one knew about us, and we had a lot of space between visitors. Too much
down time always got us in trouble.
CES 1990. You
can tell we were in Las Vegas by the wonderful decor in the room. We were
full of passion, intending to save the world from bad sound. Should probably
be titled the "young and the stupid".
