Apogee Electronics is a manufacturer of digital audio

Digital audio

Digital audio is sound reproduction using pulse-code modulation and digital signals. Digital audio systems include analog-to-digital conversion , digital-to-analog conversion , digital storage, processing and transmission components...

 interfaces and audio converters (analog-to-digital converter

Analog-to-digital converter

An analog-to-digital converter is a device that converts a continuous quantity to a discrete time digital representation. An ADC may also provide an isolated measurement...

s, digital-to-analog converter

Digital-to-analog converter

In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter is a device that converts a digital code to an analog signal . An analog-to-digital converter performs the reverse operation...

s) based in Santa Monica, CA.

Company Information

Founded in December 1985 by audio engineer Bruce Jackson

Bruce Jackson (audio engineer)

Bruce Jackson was an Australian audio engineer who co-founded JANDS, an Australian audio, lighting and staging company. He joined American touring audio engineer Roy Clair and mixed concert stage monitors for Elvis Presley in the 1970s. With Clair Brothers, a concert sound company, Jackson...

, digital electronics designer Christof Heidelberger and Soundcraft

Soundcraft

Soundcraft is a British manufacturer of mixing consoles and other professional audio equipment. It was founded by sound engineer Phil Dudderidge and electronics designer Graham Blyth in 1973.-History:...

 USA president Betty Bennett, Apogee initially made its name designing anti-aliasing filter

Anti-aliasing filter

An anti-aliasing filter is a filter used before a signal sampler, to restrict the bandwidth of a signal to approximately satisfy the sampling theorem....

s that solved many of the early problems associated with digital audio. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Apogee is now a manufacturer of digital audio converters and digital audio interfaces; dithering, limiting and filtering technologies; digital clocking technologies and all-in-one digital recording solutions.

Philanthropy

Apogee Electronics has supported many non-profit organizations worldwide including Amnesty International, Corazon de Vida, The ONE Campaign, Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, Care and Conservation International.

Audio Interfaces & Converters

• Big Ben
• Duet 2
• Ensemble
• GiO
• JAM
• Mic
• ONE
• Rosetta 200
• Symphony 64 PCI
• Symphony I/O
• X-HD
• X-Symphony

Legacy Products

• 944 Filter
• AD-16
• AD-16X
• AD-500
• AD-1000
• AD-8000
• AMBus FireWire
• AMBus HD
• CD-R Recordable Media
• DA-16
• DA-16X
• DA-1000
• Duet
• FC-8
• Mini-DAC
• Mini-Me
• Mini-MP
• PSX-100
• Rosetta 800
• Rosetta AD
• Symphony 32 PCI
• Symphony Mobile
• Trak2
• X-Digi-Mix
• X-FireWire
• X-Video

TEC Awards

2009 – Symphony 64 PCIe

2008 – Duet

2007 – Symphony

2007 – Ensemble

2005 – ROSETTA 200

2004 – BIG BEN

2003 – Mini-Me

2002 – AD-16 / DA-16

2001 – Trak 2

1999 – PSX-100

1998 – AD-8000

1997 – FC-8

1996 – AD-1000

1994 – UV-1000 Super CD Encoding

1992 – AD-500

1988 – 944S and 944G Digital Filters