Finnish Music Industry

Anssi Hyvönen grew up in Finland where he developed a great love of recorded music and the gear to play it on. This gradually led to establishing Amphion as a hifi company in 1998. As an audiophile the playback side of the music chain was always familiar to him. To understand  the whole recording – playback chain, he started learning about the role of loudspeakers in audio engineering. As his interest and knowledge in loudspeakers grew, Anssi and his team outlined ideas for improving the existing products. 2014 Amphion started offering a series of power amplifiers and loudspeakers

Juha Ruokangas is a luthier from Finland who set out to create a community of builders within Europe thus establishing the European Guitar Builders Association (EGB).  Juha designed his own series of guitars in 1997, beginning with the Duke model, which was the first instrument of his own company, Ruokangas Guitars.  Soon he followed up with other models including the Unicorn and the Aeon.  In 2011, he introduced his first electric bass, which he named the Steambass.  While exhibiting at the NAMM Show in 2016, Juha took time out for his NAMM Oral History interview to help us docum