Joan Amate's Contact Details

Joan Amate's Company Details

Amate Audio

Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain • 18 Employees
Electrical/electronic Manufacturing

Amate Audio is the brand name of Amate Audio S.L. (previously Amate Electroacústica S.L.), a manufacturer of advanced professional speaker systems, head quartered in Terrassa, just outside of Barcelona, Spain. Juan Amate founded the company in 1972 when, as a young man, he began designing and building innovative power amplifiers and PA speaker cabinets. Today, as CEO, he leads a company that is driven by creative engineering and invested heavily in research and development, ensuring its distinct competitive edge.Amate Audio is now a second generation family company. As Director of R&D, Juan's son, Joan heads a division of young engineers and technicians, that is 20 percent of the total workforce. Their collective endeavour is the design and development of speaker systems that exceed normal performance expectations, meticulously matching the specifications and characteristics of acoustic components with advanced integrated digital amplification and signal processing technologies. The company's tightly controlled manufacturing and R&D facilities – with two large anechoic chambers for development and quality control – are sited together, operating interdependently, and enabling Amate Audio to compete as a specialist manufacturer in the mass market.Great sound from Barcelona since 1972