Mundorf EB GmbH

Mundorf. After reading just three hifi reviews, most will recognize the name. What maker of hifi parts is better known than that? Particularly with speaker crossovers the brand has become nearly omnipresent. Perhaps this perception is somewhat Germanic in that reviewers like to review domestic products and readers remember them better? Maybe. For sure 'Made in Germany' factors big with Mundorf. Employing 25 people, 24 of them work out of Köln and only one in China. That's Norbert Mundorf. But rather than oversee production, he manages Asian distribution. The Far East presently accounts for nearly a quarter of the firm's turnover and as such for only slightly less than their domestic sales. We thus didn't traipse to China but the Rhine region to chat with Raimund Mundorf, owner, operator and chief engineer of the company and Norbert's younger brother. Our talk didn't just cover coils and caps, cables and air-motion transformers but also the history of this family enterprise from Cologne.