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28-580: Neutrik was founded in 1975 by Bernhard Weingartner, a former AKG engineer. It has subsidiaries (collectively called the Neutrik Group) in the United States , Great Britain , Switzerland , France , Japan , China and Germany and distributors in more than 80 countries. The corporate headquarters is located at Schaan in the Principality of Liechtenstein . This Liechtenstein -related article

56-515: A detachable cable and comes in three color variants: white, black, and a lime green. All three models are still in production. The K701s have been largely used by professional musicians and technicians in recording studios. Many top recording studios use AKG K240 headphones as a solution for best general use for both monitor and playback. They received particular notoriety from their prominent display in Eddie Murphy 's 1985 music video for " Party All

84-546: A range of high-specification headphones. The K50 model, introduced in 1959 were the world's first supra-aural and open-back headphones. The K1000 was the flagship model, but is no longer being produced. It was a unique fully open headphone. The current flagship model for the AKG headphone line-up is the K812. The K702 features a removable cord and is black, the K701 is white. The Q701 also has

112-502: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This European corporation or company article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . AKG (company) AKG Acoustics (originally Akustische und Kino-Geräte Gesellschaft m.b.H. , English: Acoustic and Cinema Equipment L.L.C. ) is an acoustics engineering and manufacturing company. It was founded in 1947 by Rudolf Görike and Ernest Plass in Vienna , Austria . It

140-500: Is a part of Harman International Industries , a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics since 2017. The products currently marketed under the AKG brand mostly consist of microphones , headphones , wireless audio systems and related accessories for professional and consumer markets. The company was founded in Vienna, Austria in 1947 by two Viennese scientists: physicist Rudolf Görike and engineer Ernst Pless. Originally, its main business

168-456: Is the first C 12 (introduced in 1953) and its successors and alternate versions, which include the Telefunken Ela M 250 and M 251 (1960), the C 24 stereo microphone, the C 412, and over a dozen different models which have carried the designation "C 414" in various forms. Those microphones are equipped with the famous CK12 large diaphragm capsule designed by AKG's engineer Konrad Wolf. The CK12

196-813: The Mediterranean Sea during the war. Therefore, Hass rented a ship in Piraeus and sailed for several months in the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Crete in 1942. Before the war, this ship had been owned by the University of Vienna . During this expedition he filmed and took photos underwater. Hass had read the book Die Raubfischer in Hellas (The Pirate Fishers in Greece) written in 1939 by Werner Helwig. Hass found this group near Skiathos and

224-738: The Red Sea and by the BBC . Hass's marriage to Hannelore Schroth produced a son, Hans Hass, Jr. The marriage ended in 1950 and he married his second wife, Lotte Baierl , that same year. Hass produced 105 commercial films, many featuring himself and his second wife, who was an expert diver. In 1951, Hass's film Under the Red Sea was awarded the first prize at the Venice Film Festival . After expeditions in East Africa and South Asia , his first TV series

252-589: The Seeteufel was lost when the Soviets captured Königsberg . In 1947 his film Menschen unter Haien had its world premiere in Zürich , and his most popular book with a very similar title was released in 1948. As a consequence, he got contracts with Herzog-Film ( Munich ) and Sascha-Film (Vienna). He also went on his first expedition with his new research ship named 'Xarifa', which was mostly financed through photo safaris in

280-445: The 1970s he addressed environmental and commercial themes and was appointed to a professorship by the University of Vienna . In 1983, he started long term studies and tutorials about predatory instincts in profession. Hass consolidated marine biology , behaviour research and management theories under one umbrella. He believed that his energon theory could not be disproved. In 1989, he addressed himself to environmental themes. After

308-555: The American diver Guy Gilpatric while on a Riviera holiday in 1938 which included underwater hunting and photography. After making expeditions to the Caribbean Sea and writing his first professional articles in 1938-39, in 1940 Hass switched from reading law to studying zoology and graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1943 at the Faculty of Biology. His thesis was

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336-535: The Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared in the waters of Cheviot Beach at Portsea , Victoria on 17 December 1967, Hass visited Australia and explored the area where Holt disappeared for his 1971 film documentary Das Geheimnis der Cheviot Bay ( The Secret of Cheviot Bay ). In an interview with Harry Martin for the ABC's current affairs programme "A.M" Hass said that having observed

364-671: The Galaxy S8, S8+ to Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra, the stereo speakers as of the Galaxy S9, S9+, S10E, S10+, Note 9, and the Note 10 (USB Type-C connector). In 2017, the Y50 model was awarded Product of the Year for on-ear headphones by What Hi-Fi? magazine. Hans Hass Hans Hass (23 January 1919 – 16 June 2013) was an Austrian biologist and underwater diving pioneer. He was known mainly for being among

392-673: The P25 in 1982. In 1984, AKG became a public company, listed on the Vienna stock exchange. As a blue chip company , it was one of the most traded stocks. The company was acquired by the American company Harman International Industries in 1994. By this time, AKG's United States subsidiary had been established (in Los Angeles in 1985). AKG Acoustics USA, still headquartered in the San Fernando Valley , also houses regional offices for Crown Audio , another Harman Industries subsidiary. In 2010,

420-644: The Time " (which features the K240 Monitor). Another notable, yet short-lived, model was the K280 Parabolic, a multi-driver headphone which focused compression waves to a central point in the earcup. As well as studio headphones, AKG also manufactures a range of Hi-Fi headphones and earphones for domestic use. One notable use includes Samsung, their parent company, using AKG to tune their headphones that come equipped with Samsung's most-recent flagship devices, starting with

448-656: The company received the prestigious Technical Grammy award. In 2016 it was announced that the AKG Vienna facilities (headquarters, manufacturing, and engineering) would be shut down in 2017, with a transfer of brand headquarters to California, USA. Most current AKG-branded products are made in Harman's overseas production facilities. In 2017, a group of former AKG engineers based in Austria formed Austrian Audio , competing with AKG. Among its professional products especially noteworthy

476-494: The creation of the D12 microphone in 1953, AKG achieved international fame, setting the standard for voice transmissions. It possessed excellent sonic qualities for that time, making its way into radio stations and recording studios from across the world. The product was improved through subsequent upgrades, spanning the famous C414 and C12 microphones. By the end of the 1970s and into the 1980s magnetic cartridges were produced, such as

504-475: The expedition in the Aegean Sea. This 84 minute underwater film, Menschen unter Haien (Men among Sharks), was released in 1947. It shows marine life including wrasse, jellyfish, sponges, sea anemones and rays. The highlights of this film include dynamite fishing and interaction of divers with sharks. In Babelsberg he met Hannelore Schroth , a famous German actress. Hans and Hannelore married in 1945. In 1945

532-502: The first scientific research project that used an autonomous rebreather diving equipment. In his early diving he used rebreathers , which he had made for him by the German diving gear makers Dräger : he had these sets made with the breathing bag on his back, as he did not like the bag-on-chest " frogman look". Hass and his team of researchers logged over 2000 dives utilising oxygen rebreathers from 1942 to 1953. Although Don Stewart, one of

560-421: The first scientists to popularise coral reefs , stingrays , octopuses and sharks . He pioneered the making of documentaries filmed underwater and led the development of a type of rebreather . He is also known for his energon theory and his commitment to protecting the environment. Hass was born in Vienna; his father was an attorney and Hass initially pursued law. However, Hass had a formative encounter with

588-627: The first scuba operators on the Caribbean island of Bonaire , blames Hass for single-handedly hunting the Atlantic goliath grouper to local extinction in a book by Callum Roberts , the author clearly refutes that claim later in the same paragraph. Hass published "Diving to Adventure," his first book of underwater photographs, in 1939 and some credit him with developing one of the first underwater cameras. Hass completed his first underwater film called Pirsch unter Wasser ( Stalking under Water ) in 1940. It

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616-555: The underwater conditions of the area with its sharp and jagged rocks, he was convinced that Holt had been trapped in the structure of one of these rocks and his body considerably torn by the nature of the forces of the sea and the sharp rocks. Hass acknowledged a rivalry with the better-known French scientist Jacques Cousteau ; according to the New York Times obituary, Hass told historian Tim Ecott that "For Cousteau there exists only Cousteau. He never acknowledged others or corrected

644-500: Was a milestone in transducer technology and the first to offer constant frequency response and sensitivity for all polar patterns (omni to figure eight). AKG microphones have been used for shooting Hans Hass 's film Adventures in the Red Sea and were installed on the MIR space station . They are also mentioned by Dan Brown in his novels The Da Vinci Code and Deception Point . Some microphone models include: AKG also manufactures

672-655: Was able to film their dynamite fishing under water. In spring and summer of 1943, Hass stayed for several months at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples and Capri to study and collect Bryozoa , aquatic invertebrate animals, for his doctoral thesis in zoology. In February 1944, he completed the thesis to become a Doctor of Science . Until the end of the war Hass lived and worked in the film studios of Universum Film AG in Babelsberg near Berlin to cut and finish his film about

700-484: Was developed in 1959, in 1961 for the first time about creatures outside the water. This was followed by behavioural research and the 'energon theory' from 1963 to 1966. From his behavioural research, Hass formed his energon hypothesis, the focus of his work in later years. It posits that the behaviours of all life-forms — human, nonhuman animal and plant — have common origins. Combined with management strategies, Hass published about commonalities with evolution in 1969. In

728-471: Was excused from serving in the German military during the Second World War because of poor circulation in his feet caused by Raynaud's disease . From the proceeds of his hundreds of lectures, Hass was able to buy the sailing ship Seeteufel in 1942. However, he was not able to use the ship for his planned expedition because the ship was in the harbour of Stettin and it was not possible to bring it to

756-523: Was published by the Universum Film AG , originally lasting only 16 minutes and was shown in cinemas before the main film, but would eventually be extended by additional filming done in the Adriatic Sea close to Dubrovnik . Hass moved from Vienna to Berlin in 1941, where he founded the tax privileged society Expedition für biologische Meereskunde ( Expedition for biological oceanography ). Hass

784-452: Was to provide technical equipment for cinemas: loudspeakers , film projectors and light meters . The business slowly expanded and AKG started selling car horns, door intercoms, carbon microphone capsules for telephones, headsets and cushion speakers. About this time, the company developed its first patents, the moving coil technology and the principle of mass load membranes, allowing its products to have extended frequency ranges. With

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