Moving, inspiring, busy and full of pleasure – just like life itself, that is the story of the AARON High End range. It gives us great pleasure to be able to show you some of the excerpts and milestones from over a decade of “living music” and work.

Enjoy your “stroll” through the company history.

Here, you can see:

Or you can choose to simply start at the beginning.

 

No.1 * 1989 - 2002

The classic! AARON No.1 integrated amplifier 1989 > 2002

 

 

The High End consumer electronics sales company (High End Unterhaltungselektronik Vertriebs GmbH) was founded in 1985 by the music-loving couple Marita and Thomas Hoehne. The stated company aim was: the production of hi-fi devices to meet the highest demands of serious music-lovers like the Hoehne family themselves – and thus the perfect reproduction of music. It was at that early stage, that it was decided to call these devices, which meet such high demands, SOVEREIGN. Yet it would be years before the first SOVEREIGN amplifier came out under the current technical reference – AARON products.

 
Neumann Audiotechnik A 300. M

Monaural power amplifiers  A 300.M

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first amplifiers by the High End consumer electronics sales company were introduced to leading specialist traders and hi-fi specialist magazines in late 1985. They were named after the developer Markus Neumann, who, at that time, was working for the Hoehne family.

Neumann Audiotechnik

NEUMANN AUDIOTECHNIK quickly became known amongst hi-fi fans and it stood for sound quality and excellent design. The legendary A300.M mono power amplifiers are still envied collectors items today, nearly 20 years later.

 

 
SOVEREIGN The First

SOVEREIGN The First, Stereo high power amplifier

 

 In the late 80s, the Hoehne family employed several developers from both at home and abroad, to implement their “SOVEREIGN” project. Amongst these were the brothers Andreas and Dr. Bernhard Fuss, as well as the Dutchman Lion Kwaytaal who lived in the USA. The first results which matched the high demands of the Hoehne family emerged in 1988. Even the prototype of the later stereo high power amplifier – named SOVEREIGN THE FIRST – impressed expert circles. Many music lovers quickly became interested in these products, even abroad. This huge attention also encouraged company expansion in big steps.

 

 

 

 

 

 In 1989, the Hoehne family made the decision to transfer production and development to the Dutch town of Hertogenbosch, and to put the operation management in the experienced hands of the committed Dutchman, Lion Kwaytaal. Since then, all High End sales company products are finished in the “High End Halls “in Hertogenbosch. Based on the collective experience and internal SOVEREIGN technology, a further production line would be created, and the amplifiers – which, up until then, were finished under the trademark

NEUMANN AUDIOTECHNIK became:

 

 

 

high-grade AARON series construction elements

 

 A range which satisfies the high demands of sound quality, but which can be finished less costly than the  SOVEREIGN amplifiers. A range which impresses its future owners and convinces them with an unbeatable price-sound ratio. 

That is how AARON amplifiers were meant to be – and that is what they have become

 

 

 

 
The AARON No.1 integrated amplifier was the first device in this range and it quickly became the number 1 High End amplifier. Highly praised in the expert press and deeply loved by its owners. As far back as 1989, No.1 set standards in the construction of amplifiers and it became one of the longest made High End amplifiers ever. No. 1 was, with several updates, produced for over a decade. An almost unique production span for a hi-fi device, but one which convincingly documents the superiority of AARON amplifiers. It was this integrated amplifier which made the name AARON known internationally amongst music lovers, and which today still gives its owners fun and pleasure listening to music – in Europe, in North and South America and in Asia.
 

Integrated Amplifier  No.1 

Some AARON fans still strongly suspect, even today, that the name "AARON" was taken from the Old Testament, or even that it might be a reference to Elvis Presley’s middle name. None of these are right. The Trademark AARON – now protected by patent rights – was chosen because, in Thomas Hoehne’s opinion, this range should appear in every alphabetical listing in the same place as it would when classified by sound quality:

In first place!

 

 

Click here to see a list of all AARON devices since 1989

 

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