A management team from the Coatbridge factory starts again.

Fyne Audio is a loudspeaker maker in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, and its story begins at Tannoy. When What Hi-Fi? reported its debut at the Munich High End show in May 2017, it called the company “the brainchild of a group of former Tannoy employees.” Stereophile named some of them in 2020: Gabriel O’Donohue, formerly Tannoy’s operations director; Stuart Wilkinson, its product development director; and Dr Paul Mills, who spent some 27 years at Tannoy, latterly as director of research and engineering, and became Fyne’s technical director. The managing director, Andrzej Sosna, described the team as “industry veterans” in a 2018 statement quoted by What Hi-Fi?.

The background is Tannoy’s own change of hands. Tannoy, whose factory moved to Coatbridge in the 1970s, was bought by TC Group in 2002, and TC Group by Music Group, Uli Behringer’s company, in 2015, English Wikipedia says. Hi-Fi News wrote in 2019 that after those takeovers the team “formerly running the famous Coatbridge factory, found itself with not much to manage,” and so founded Fyne Audio “with investment from overseas, as well as significant funding from Scottish Enterprise.” Tannoy itself carried on: the same review noted that the name lives on within Music Group, with its main focus on professional audio.

The paperwork starts before the launch. Companies House shows that the English company now called Fyne Audio Limited was incorporated in August 2016 as F-Audio Limited and took its present name in March 2018, with Mills, O’Donohue, Sosna and Wilkinson appointed directors in February 2017. The company says its first flagship, the F1-10, was “first conceived in 2016 and launched in 2017.” Its first website, archived in August 2017, described a “brand new” Scottish manufacturer whose seven-strong management team brought “over 200 years’ audio industry experience,” and gave an address in Coatbridge.

Three ranges at once, and a point-source driver.

Fyne did not start small. At Munich in 2017 it showed three ranges, What Hi-Fi? reported: the entry-level F300 series, the F500 series built around a coaxial driver, and the flagship F1 series of three floorstanders, the F1-8, F1-10 and F1-12, named after the size of their coaxial drivers. The first speakers were due on sale at the end of that year, and the company’s own news pages announced the UK launch of its “new British speaker brand” at the Bristol show in February 2018. In August 2018 What Hi-Fi? reported £850,000 of export finance from Bibby Financial Services, and in September 2019 a US distribution deal with The Sound Organisation.

The signature technology is the IsoFlare driver, which the company describes as a point-source system in which the bass and midrange driver “shares a common centre with the high frequency unit.” Stereophile noted that Tannoy is known for its coaxial drivers and that Fyne’s founders carry on that tradition. Other named features are BassTrax, a downward-firing port with a Tractrix-profile diffuser that spreads bass through 360 degrees, and FyneFlute, a fluted rubber surround intended to reduce colorations at the cone’s edge.

In 2022 Fyne added a retro line. What Hi-Fi? reported the launch of Fyne Vintage at that year’s High End show, then held in Munich, in two tiers: Vintage models in real wood throughout, and Vintage Classic models in MDF with real-wood veneer, both with large IsoFlare drivers, 75mm titanium-dome tweeters and analogue Presence and Energy controls. The company says the range is “hand crafted here in Scotland,” and that the Vintage Classic models wear a black baffle with Scottish-patterned grille cloth.

Where the speakers are made depends on the range. Stereophile reported in 2020 that the entry-level F301 was designed in Lanarkshire but “assembled and manufactured in China,” and that “upper-tier Fynes are manufactured in Scotland.” We found no more recent independent breakdown of which ranges are made where. The company’s news pages list What Hi-Fi? Awards for the F302 in 2019 and 2020 and for floorstanders in 2025.

Design and documentation.

Britain’s smaller loudspeaker makers draw on a tradition set by the BBC, whose Research Department at Kingswood Warren in Surrey designed monitors and licensed others to build them. Sound On Sound names the first three LS3/5A licensees as Rogers, Audiomaster and Chartwell; English Wikipedia says Falcon Acoustics now holds the licence for the 15-ohm version.

Their websites and Companies House place the makers in this guide across Britain: Kudos at Willington, County Durham; Acoustic Energy at Trull, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire; Fyne Audio at Bellshill, North Lanarkshire; Russell K at a registered address in Dunstable, Bedfordshire; Falcon Acoustics at Stanton St John, near Oxford; Stirling Broadcast near Carmarthen in Wales, though Stereophile listed it in Somerset in 2007; and the Chartwell name with Graham Audio in Newton Abbot, Devon.

Several have changed hands. Chartwell was sold from receivership to Rogers’ owner in 1978; Graham Audio revived the name by 2016. Falcon says its founder, Malcolm Jones, transferred the business to Jerry Bloomfield in 2009. Companies House shows Acoustic Energy’s original 1987 company, dissolved in 2022, was controlled by the Malaysian-listed Formosa Prosonic Industries; a Tetbury company that calls itself British owned and run now trades as Acoustic Energy.

On manufacturing, the makers speak for themselves. Kudos says each loudspeaker is assembled by hand in its factory in North East England; Fyne Audio says its F700 series is built in the UK; Graham Audio says its loudspeakers are hand-assembled on site.

This guide sets out what can be checked about each brand — who founded it, who owns it, and what it says about where its products are made — and marks clearly what rests only on the company’s own word.

A new factory in Bellshill.

Today the company gives its headquarters as No. 1 Cubitt Court, Bellshill, in North Lanarkshire. In a video tour published in September 2025, Sosna showed what he called a “brand new” 20,000-square-foot facility there, with almost 200 solar panels on the roof, a demonstration room used by Dr Mills’s team for product development, and assembly lines where staff build drive units by hand. “We build all our own crossovers,” he says, describing point-to-point wiring rather than circuit boards. Those are the company’s claims about its own factory. Its anniversary flagship, the F1-10 Anniversary, is described as “hand-built in Scotland” in a numbered limited run, with a curved birch-ply cabinet in burr walnut and walnut veneer and champagne-gold detailing, listed at £37,000 including VAT.

The company is privately held. Companies House lists Fyne Audio Limited as owned by Fyne Audio Systems and Technology Limited, a holding company registered in Glasgow in December 2017, whose register has named a US-based director, appointed in 2022, as its person with significant control. Mills, O’Donohue, Sosna and Wilkinson remain directors of both companies; Max Maud, the sales and marketing director quoted in 2019, resigned as a director in July 2025. We found no published brand colours or typeface; the name appears in capitals as FYNE AUDIO on the website, and the company has not explained where the name comes from.

For a design guide, Fyne Audio shows how a new brand can borrow credibility from the experience of the people behind it while building its own look of walnut veneers and gold detailing. Compare Tannoy, the company its founders came from, and Linn, another Scottish hi-fi maker. For this guide we use walnut, slate and a champagne gold with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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