Playback Designs is a company that imagines, designs and manufactures the highest quality audio products for the professional audio recording industry and audiophile community.
Playback Designs has it's roots in a relationship with Sony, when it designed products for the conversion of analog audio to digital formats and back again to analog.
Initially these products have been used by Sony and Philips as the key enabling technology in their strategy to launch a new and improved consumer audio format (SACD) of similar scope as the all familiar CD-Audio format in terms of expected market penetration.