Home Audio Brands We Partner With
McIntosh – Reference Platinum Dealer
Our flagship brand is McIntosh. It’s the brand we grew up with and it represents a level of quality and a purity of sound that no other brand can match at any price. Your ears may prefer other loud speakers but McIntosh is known for the cleanest power amplification, hand-made craftsmanship, and manufacturing in the same U.S. plant since their inception. We’re told that our reference room for McIntosh actually demos more of their line than their own factory reference room.
Focal
Focal has been creating benchmark acoustic equipment since 1979, specializing in drivers for home and car audio. Focal products offer unrivaled sound quality and have the looks to match; The finish on the speakers is unsurpassed in the industry.
As part of JMlabs, Focal employs some of the best drivers in the business. The drivers are so good in fact that other loud speaker manufacturers use JMlab drivers in their lines.
Sonus faber
Sonus Fabertranslated from Latin means “handmade sound.” These Italian-designed speakers are as amazing to hear as to look at – and they’rebuilt for long-term listenability.Handmade Italian qualityis put into each speaker, which takes its styling and design cues from actual instruments. The sound produced immerses you in an experience of being live in front of the artist. From the top of the line to entry level speakers, the speakers won’t disappoint.
T+A
A German company known for their high-end audio equipment from Amplifiers, Receivers, Turntables, Loudspeakers to Headphones. The quality, style and performance is ahead of its pack as a whole that provides everything you need for your hi-fi experience.
Klipsch – Heritage Dealer
Shortly after finishing his service in WW II, Paul W. Klipsch designed and hand-built the legendary Klipschorn® speaker in a tiny tin shed in Hope, Arkansas in 1946. From these all-American roots he went on to become an American audio pioneer and a proud member of the engineering and science hall of fame. He gave rise to speaker technologies that would forever impact generations of music lovers.
NOT AT THE BIG BOX STORES
Klipsch speakers have become legendary and being the Heritage Dealer for South Texas, we carry the TOP Klipsch lines that you can’t buy at the big box stores.
VPI Industries – Reference Dealer
VPI Industries Inc. is owned by a family of audiophiles and offers products made in the USA. VPI makesultrahigh-end turntablesthat are not only fantastic to listen to but also have high aesthetic appeal. They are truly functional works of art.
Isotek
Shortly after finishing his service in WW II, Paul W. Klipsch designed and hand-built the legendary Klipschorn® speaker in a tiny tin shed in Hope, Arkansas in 1946. From these all-American roots he went on to become an American audio pioneer and a proud member of the engineering and science hall of fame. He gave rise to speaker technologies that would forever impact generations of music lovers.
NOT AT THE BIG BOX STORES
Klipsch speakers have become legendary and being the Heritage Dealer for South Texas, we carry the TOP Klipsch lines that you can’t buy at the big box stores.
PrimaLuna
Since 2003, PrimaLuna has created tube amplifiers with a unique construction found nowhere else. Their look is unrivaled and their amps are a combination of parts made in-house and “best-of-breed” parts from manufacturing stalwarts like Germany and Switzerland. Combine that with the warm sound they produce and nothing else comes close in their respective price ranges. They continue to impress the audiophile media with their sound.
PrimaLuna has changed the way we think about tube amplification, from increasing reliability and tube life to the way they sound. Products come in both an integrated amplifier or separate preamplifier and power amplifiers.
Marantz
Marantz is the industry standard for theater processing. This includes Dolby Atmos, TrueHD, ProLogic llz, Surround, DTS HD master, X, Neutral: X, Neo: X Virtual: X, Auro 3D, and DSX. In fact, McIntosh utilizes Marantz components in their multi-channel theater products. Marantz’s philosophy is “Because Music Matters.” We share the same belief here at Houston Audio. The Marantz product line includes CD players, receivers, amplifiers, turntables and headphones.
Pro-Ject
Pro-Ject offers the best in analog and digital reproduction in a small footprint. That includes turntables, tone arms, DAC’s, CD transports and related hardware. They maintain their outstanding quality with European manufacturing (Austria). They are a part of the McIntosh family of products.
Naim Audio
Every Naim product is designed to produce pure sound, revealing a musical experience that brings the listener as close as possible to its original live source material. Every component used by Naim systems is chosen to create silence around the sound. The goal? You only hear the music. It gets rid of any interference introduced by you and puts you closer to the artist. Naim manufactures streamers, cd players, digital to analog converters, integrated or all in one amplifiers and separate preamplifiers and power amplifiers.
Clarus Cables
The Clarus Audiophile Collection of cables is truly in a class by itself. Engineered by celebrated cable designer Jay Victor, each of their cables utilize numerous patented and patent-pending technologies. Manufactured with gold-plated connectors and single crystal and impurity free OFC, Clarus takes the time to produce quality interconnects. This is the reference level cable for Tributaries. No magic cables needed.
Tributaries Cables
Tributaries offers one of the widest ranges of high quality cables and accessories available. They manufacture all of McIntosh’s power cables, speaker cables and interconnects. Whatever your system requires, from a reel of speaker cable to high-performance interconnects, they have the products you need. High-end quality at real-world prices.
Synergistic Research
Houston Audio is only 1 of 5 Galileo-level dealers in the entire country for Synergistic Research.
The Galileo SX line is a top brand for hand-crafted hi-fidelity audio cabling and power conditioning with innovative shielding and EM absorption to lower noise and allow you to actually tune your cables to your system.
Meze Audio
Meze Audio’s top headphones, the Empyrean, are available at GridHiFi.
Sumiko
Sumiko is a leader in phonograph cartridges and a legendary line of sub woofers. They are another brand under the McIntosh umbrella because of their excellence.