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About AKG
Recording studios, radio and TV stations, opera houses and famous stages around the world count on AKG products. Internationally known musicians and performers have frequently been seen over the years using our high-quality microphones and headphones. Today AKG is one of the leading manufacturers of high-quality microphones, headphones and wireless equipment.
AKG, founded in Vienna in 1947 by Dr. Rudolf Goerike and Ernst Pless, soon became one of the biggest players in the world of sound. Within months of the company’s establishment, the first AKG microphones were already being used in radio stations, theatres and jazz clubs. The products (the AKG DYN Series) were at that time manufactured by hand by five workers.
In 1949, the first AKG headphones came on the market.
AKG microphones and headphones have a long history on tour and in the studio with international musicians such as Frank Sinatra, Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder, Aerosmith, the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, Anastacia, Eros Ramazzotti, Kanye West and Simply Red. Not only well-respected internationally, AKG has fans closer to home as well: Falco, Austria’s most famous pop-star, is an AKG user, as well as the upcoming Austrian star Christina Stürmer.
Some notable events
- 1955: The first postwar Salzburg Festival (Austria) uses AKG microphones. A unidirectional microphone is specifically designed for Herbert von Karajan.
- 1955: Hans Hass uses AKG products to shoot his first underwater sound movie, “Adventures in the Red Sea,” which won first prize at the “Biennale” biannual film festival in Venice, Italy.
- 1972: A special stamp is issued by the British Post Office commemorating the 50th anniversary of the BBC showing historical microphones, including several AKG models.
- 1991: AKG takes to the stars when the "Audimir" space project uses AKG products for room simulation in outer space (at the MIR space station).
- 1997: AKG wireless mics are used on the "Arctic Northeast" project for the Austrian Broadcasting Company, providing quality and reliable performance even at low arctic temperatures.
- 1999: Remix of Caruso's voice is completed with Hearo 777s.
- 2003: Leading novelist Dan Brown mentions AKG headphones in two of his best-selling novels, "The Da Vinci Code" and "Deception Point."
- 2006: AKG provides quality sound for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
