For hundreds of years, Sheffield has rung out with the sound of industry and building; sitting in the natural crucible of the pennines and the confluence of five rivers, its name is synonymous with steel and the coal that powered it. And for the past 30 years, high-end audio company Wilson Benesch has been building a new sound for that city, and the world, making speakers and turntables that are an instantiation of that very spirit of innovation and industry.
Sheffield’s industry has never gone away: its name is still etched in steel that finds a home across the world. The city actually produces more now than it did in its supposed golden age, though it’s more specialist and automated, the metal no longer clattering from a crucible and guided by human hands, but instead finely and precisely manufactured for global industry.
