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    HALCRO: NEW OWNERS, NEW MODELS

    Sep 01, 2019 5 minutes

    AUDIO ESOTERICA: Back in the day, Halcro was probably the most famous high-end amplifier brand in the world, but then it just vanished off the face of the earth. What happened?

    MIKE KIRKHAM: Halcro was owned by a company called MineLab, which manufactured metal detectors designed by Bruce Candy, who also designed the Halcro amplifiers. When MineLab was acquired by Codan, Codan simply decided to shelve the Halcro operation because it didn’t regard it as the core business.

    AE: Surely it would have made more commercial sense to sell off Halcro rather than just shelve it?

    The problem with Codan selling off Halcro was that the main reason they purchased MineLab in the first place was so they could keep Bruce Candy designing metal detectors — he was more valuable to

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