Luxman
LUXMAN was founded inJapan on June 1925, by T. Hayakawa & his brother K. Yoshikawa, the year when the radio broadcasting started in Japan. The company called Kinsuido, a picture frame company in Osaka, made a radio department, which later became LUX. Kinsuido was the first company to display and sell radio receiving equipments at the stores. A lot of people stopped to listen to the beauty of the sound. This was the very beginning of LUXMAN’s long history of tonal quality pursuit.
Luxman began in the unlikeliest of places, the Kinsuido Picture Frame Store in Osaka, Japan. There, the Hayakawa brothers established a radio department in 1925, anticipating the birth of radio broadcasting in Japan. Kinsuido was the first company in Japan to display and sell radio receivers – astonishing visitors with the quality of sound. To fulfill an urgent need for a Japanese-language reference on radio technology, the company published the Kinsuido Radio Book, with the catch phrase, “Reading once makes you the radio expert.” Self-published at first, the book became a best seller, going through 14 editions and inspiring generations of audio engineers. To secure a supply chain, the brothers needed to make international connections and traveled outside Japan. The company quickly transitioned from simply importing radio parts and equipment to manufacturing parts and assembling its own products in-house, marking the birth of the Luxman brand.
