Any hi-fi buffs among The Engineer's readers may well have come across MonoPulse, a loudspeaker company that is attracting rave reviews from the critics. MonoPulse's range of unusual-looking speakers have won praise from the notoriously pedantic hi-fi press for delivering excellent sound quality at budget prices (£500-£1,400 is a snip to serious audiophiles). So what sort of company is MonoPulse? A consortium of German PhDs perhaps, based in a lab in Bavaria. Or maybe a slick design and manufacturing operation in the US mid-West. In fact, the question should be who is MonoPulse, and the answer is Allan Hendry, retired engineering manager turned hi-fi entrepreneur. MonoPulse's founder and still its sole employee, Hendry assembles each pair of speakers in his workshop in the New Forest, using components sourced from a variety of suppliers, to his own exacting designs. With more than 500 pairs sold in the UK and around the world, MonoPulse shows every sign of turning into a significant business.
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