Markaudio is a audio speaker product design and manufacturing company based in Quandong Province, South China. Established for 11 years, it has progressed from supplying audio components for European audio brands to producing its own range of audio speaker drivers and accessories. Markaudio designs all its products "in house". All the major components for its speaker drivers are 100% custom made. The company philosophy is one of continuous improvement. Markaudio enjoys a world-wide leading reputation for high performance top quality Full-Range audio drivers.
Evan Yu: Developer for China
Evan Yu is a driver designer and production specialist with 16 years experience in the audio industry. He started as a technician for a Taiwanese manufacturer gaining promotion in the second year to a senior in charge of several large-scale development projects. Later, becoming head of project development and technical team leader. His work includes projects for JVC Japan, responsible for new product development, trial production and technical guidance.
In 1997 Evan transferred to a new company responsible for all engineering development work on Japanese products for Panasonic, JVC, SONY, Philips and Thomson. He was in charge of audio speaker, projects types for LCD TV,Computer, I-pod and Car audio. His development products were exports to Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Belgium, Hungary, Argentina, Brazil and other places. In 2007 Evan joined Markaudio as a consultant. He now works as the Leader for many of the production projects and is co-ordinating the development of audio speakers for China and other Asian customers.
Evan’s music choices are quite modern. His main passion is vocal music.
Mark Fenlon: Founder of Markaudio
Mark Fenlon is a mechanical design and applications engineer with 33 years of industrial experience. At 16 years old, Mark first started making his own speakers from kits while living in the UK. Since this age, he's worked for 3 multi national companies in the fields of pneumatics and the control of system critical resonance in applied industrial applications. Mark is a committed music concert attender.
His musical tastes range from Ambient (Art of Noise, Brian Eno), Jazz (Nina Simone PhD) to contemporary classical (Górecki, Arnold). He's fanatical about extending the acoustic performance of Full-Range speaker drivers, and the quality of recorded source music. (Ambient is modern easy listen music, Art of Noise is the name of the music band)
Matsubara san: Associate
Matsubara san majored in sound engineering at a university. He’s a senior acoustic engineer with 39 years of industrial experience in HiFi speaker, micro-speaker and headphone development design. More recently He’s worked as a production facility developer and a consultant designers for speaker systems. Matsubara san is a qualified member for ISO inspection standards.
Matsubara san enjoys most forms of music. But he does not like heavy metal music very much.
Taniguchi san: Associate
Taniguchi is a university graduate specialising in acoutics. After graduation, he became an OEM speaker systems designer and maker for 33 years. After having experienced one year quality control, he concentrated on speaker unit and system design, mostly producing for major Japanese and multi-national brands.
Taniguchi san likes most forms of music. Recently, he’s been spending time listening to jazz vocal.
Kitagawa san: Associate
Kitagawa graduated as an engineer, going directly into the audio speaker industry. He’s been working in this industry as an OEM speaker maker for 33 years. His specialty is quality control and a guarantee of quality. In addition, he makes a specialty of it about the setup of the new product.
Kitagawa san likes jazz, fusion and rock music. He’s a fan of Quincy Jones.