From hiring out sound to making it.

K-array began as a sound-hire business. Its website says that in 1990 Alessandro Tatini, together with his father Carlo and Massimo Ferrati, founded “an audio and lighting service company” — HP Sound Equipment — and that the K-ARRAY company followed in 2005. Powersoft’s announcement of its purchase gives the same 2005 date.

It is based at Scarperia e San Piero, on Via P. Romagnoli, in the Mugello valley north of Florence. Its new majority owner, Powersoft, founded in 1995 by Luca and Claudio Lastrucci and Antonio Peruch, is based at Scandicci, on the other side of the city. Alessandro Tatini is its chairman and chief executive; Massimo Ferrati is described as chief executive and co-founder in Powersoft’s announcement.

Its founding idea, as the company tells it, was “Less is more”: making loudspeakers small and slim enough to cut the cost of loading and moving heavy systems We give that as the company’s origin story.

Slim columns and a group of brands.

K-array’s products are thin, metal-bodied loudspeakers. The company says “all K-ARRAY products feature a stainless steel and aluminum structure,” with gold finishes for its premium range and any colour in the European RAL standard to order. English Wikipedia names product lines including the Mugello and Firenze — the names of the company’s home valley and of Florence — and the Owl, Mastiff, Anakonda, Kobra and Python, and Kommander amplifiers, and records that the Anakonda KAN200 won awards at InAVation and InfoComm in 2014 that the company equipped Lincoln Financial Field, the Philadelphia Eagles’ stadium, in 2017, and that the K-Scape line arrived in 2020; those details rest on Wikipedia.

The business now has several brands. Powersoft’s announcement describes three: K-Array, for audio professionals; K-Gear, offering “traditional and more affordable audio solutions”; and K-Scape, combining audio and lighting. The company’s website also lists K-ACADEMY, K-EXPERIENCE, K-HALL and Beyond Sound under the K-Group name. The kgear.com address leads to an unrelated company, and we do not link it.

Its figures are known because of the sale. K-array’s revenue was €18.989 million in 2023 and, on preliminary figures, €22.117 million in 2024, up 16.5 per cent, with EBITDA rising from €3.743 million to €6.584 million, a margin of 29.8 per cent; Tatini, quoted in the announcement, said growth in recent years had been “in double digits.” The company had more than 100 staff, Powersoft said.

The groups.

Italian professional audio has been consolidating into groups. RCF Group of Reggio Emilia, which also owns dBTechnologies, bought the American loudspeaker maker EAW and the Danish microphone maker DPA in 2018–19 and the Italian PA brand Montarbo in 2019; in 2019, according to Il Sole 24 Ore, it had about 700 staff, exported 87 per cent of its sales and planned a stock-market listing it later withdrew.

A second cluster has formed around Florence. The amplifier maker Powersoft of Scandicci, listed in Milan since December 2018, bought 51 per cent of the loudspeaker maker K-array of Scarperia in 2025, on an enterprise value of €50 million, with the deal announcement stressing the two companies’ “territorial proximity.” Nearby, the listed transducer maker B&C Speakers, founded in Florence in 1946, reported revenue of €100.4 million in 2024 and has bought Eighteen Sound of Reggio Emilia and Eminence of Kentucky, according to Italian Wikipedia.

The groups reach well beyond Italy. RCF Group’s EAW is American and DPA Danish; Powersoft has a subsidiary in New Jersey and earned 44.2 per cent of its 2025 revenue in North America; and B&C Speakers, listed in Milan since 2007, bought Eminence Speaker of Kentucky in September 2023 and its operations in Dongguan, China, that December, according to Italian Wikipedia.

Ownership has moved between these firms as well as into them. Montarbo, the Bologna PA maker, was controlled by Eko Music Group of Montelupone, in the Marche, by 2012, and passed to RCF Group’s AEB Industriale in January 2020. FBT of Recanati, founded in 1963, is controlled by a holding company that bears the name of Vinicio Tanoni, and Proel of the Abruzzo was founded in 1991 by Fabrizio Sorbi, who started with cables. Each company describes where its products are designed and made in its own words, and the guides below quote them.

K-array is the bought half of the second group: a Mugello speaker maker now majority-owned by a Florence amplifier company.

“Less is more.”

Powersoft, listed in Milan since December 2018, stressed the two companies’ “territorial proximity” in announcing the deal. Before it, H.P. Sound Equipment owned all of K-array, and was itself owned 53.7 per cent by Gioia S.r.l. and 28.3 per cent by Massimo Ferrati; the announcement does not say who owns Gioia. In 2025 Powersoft bought 51 per cent from H.P. Sound for about €22.3 million, on an enterprise value of €50 million, with options on the rest after the 2030 accounts and half of K-Array USA LLC included; H.P. Sound received 300,000 new Powersoft shares, about 2.4 per cent of the company, as part of the price, and appears on Powersoft’s register with 2.34 per cent. With nine months of K-array included, Powersoft’s 2025 revenue reached €94.4 million. English Wikipedia describes K-array as a public company; it is a private limited company, majority-owned by a listed one.

On manufacturing, Powersoft’s announcement calls K-array a company “specialized in the design and manufacture” of its products and speaks of “the enhancement of MADE IN ITALY TECHNOLOGY”; K-array’s own about page makes no specific claim about where its products are made. The company calls itself one of the world’s most innovative professional speaker makers, a claim we give as its own.

Its website uses a variable display typeface, HeadingNow, black and white with greys, and an orange, #EA571D, for the K-Gear brand; the wordmark is set in capitals as K-ARRAY. For a design guide, K-array shows how a product idea — slimness — can become the whole identity. Compare Powersoft, its new majority owner, and RCF. For this guide we use black, steel and teal with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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