Our specific interest and appreciation tribe for Funktion One loudspeakers, the only large format touring-quality point-source cabinets engineered for the clarity and demands of electronic music reproduction. Transparent, clear, and effortless, Funktion One loudspeakers can now be seen at the top world-wide musical events. Most recently; the Boom festival in Portugal (Aug06) and the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (May07).

"Tony Andrews together with John Newsham founded Turbosound in the mid 1970s and brought that company to prominence through several generations of revolutionary loudspeaker designs. Notable examples include the TMS-3, Flashlight and Floodlight systems. During the period of Tony and John's ownership of Turbosound they pioneered and established many of the principles which subsequently became standard audio industry practice. Whilst often imitated, their designs have not been surpassed and have been the first choice of many permanent and touring sound applications around the world.

Following a period of growing unrest and the purchase of Turbosound by AKG, Tony and John leapt at an opportunity to sever their ties, feeling that Turbosound was no longer an avenue of creative expression for them. Upon leaving Turbosound in 1992 they formed Funktion One along with several other members of the original Turbosound R & D team.

Funktion One's plan focussed around us having the time and resource to properly investigate areas of sonic importance in the achievement of a serious leap forward in performance, by building on the strengths of our innovative past. In other words, continuing our evolution. This means more clarity and intelligibility, more conversion of amplifier energy into acoustic energy, more clean SPL and more controlled dispersion with less size, less weight and less distortion. The last ten years development programme has now culminated in our Resolution Series of loudspeaker designs."

" The purity of the Funktion One design approach completely avoids the usual pitfalls of system EQ with its associated phase problems. This purity leads to incredible transient delivery which, combined with the sheer physicality and lack of distortion of these systems, provides the listener with totally involving and pain-free musical experiences."

"Conceived and built unlike any other loudspeaker range in the world, the award-winning, patented technology embodied by these striking Funktion-one cabinets is a world away from any conventional system, with a combination of clarity, power and audio precision that belies their compact size."

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