WILSON BENESCH & NIRVANA SOUND

ilson Benesch recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, a significant achievement for any company, and especially for one which began its life bucking what appeared to be a clear market trend, and doing so with the highest of investment levels. This Sheffield-based UK company is renowned for its use of advanced materials at the cutting-edge of audio design, but back in 1989, when the compact disc was in clear ascendancy over vinyl records, some questioned the new company’s decision to develop as its first product not only a turntable, but one built from advanced engineering materials. ‘Yes, some of the first journalists who covered our products were in a word, a little sceptical!,’ says Craig Milnes, Wilson Benesch’s Design Director. ‘One influential journalist at the time suggested that “someone