surrounTec™ introduces itself
The core of surrounTec™ GmbH are the founder Berthold (the senior, developer, Ingenieur, the creative one) and Philipp (the junior) Burkhardtsmaier. We are in charge of our little family business and develop, test, build and take care of the quality of our products. As Swabian loudspeaker manufactory we live and understand our work as continuous challenge against ourselves, our products and our customers. We build products for demanding professionals and audiophile connoisseurs and we see ourselves in the responsibility vis-à-vis our clients. After all their investment should be worthwhile! We are satisfied and sign off the delivery only after not only the technical parameter are met but also the clearances of the cabinets, the "blackness" of the coating and the whole monitor-sculpture as such reflects the musical aesthetics we desire.
Some say about us that we build the most consequent listening tools which one can buy for money. Please have a go at us. But please, please, very carefully. An encounter with a surrounTec™ product will (most likely) change your listening habit long lasting.
Quote from Celi: Musik ist nicht schön, Musik ist wahr.
The buddy-list of all surrounTec™ craftsmen:
- Bernhard ist Ingenieur und baut die Keramikchassis
- Reinhard ist Schreinermeister und baut das Gehäuse
- Raimund wickelt die Kondensatoren für die Frequenzweiche
- Andy ist Schlosser und baut das Stativ und die Stellschrauben
- Berndt ist Tuner und Tüfftler - er arbeitet mit Sand und Strom
- Karl ist ebenfalls Ingenieur und baut die Verstärkerelektronik
- Turan ist Klavierlackspezialist und lackiert/poliert die Gehäuse
- Silke dreht Schrauben aus Titan
- Mark macht die Kabel für den Signalpfad
- Werner fräst alles aus Aluminium und Stahl
- Berthold ist der Senior-Ingenieur und zuständig für die Montage, QM und Messtechnik
- Philipp ist der Kaufmann und Manager
Our founder and manager:
Actually he wanted to become a pianist or a conductor. Since his 7th birthday he took piano lessons with the pianist Schinghammer and violin lessons in the music school. He archived quite some praises and awards at school. During his teenage time he made money with his rolling discotheque – of course he did build the speakers himself! But as life is he started to study electro-technics with the focus on acoustics at the technical University in Munich. There he made his diploma with the title “Influence of the cabinet material on loudspeaker building” with professor Zwicker. The rolling discotheque converted into a private DJ for Käfer and the US military, the speaker building yielded developments for well known discotheques like the M1 in Munich or the Sugar Shack. And through the piano playing the got to know his love to music production. Under the influence of Mack (Queen, ELO, etc), at that time sound engineer in the Musicland Munich, Berthold made his hobby his career: he became product manager for JBL and Shure at Harman Deutschland in Heilbronn. The first monitor development under his hands was the ZDF-Monitor JBL 5646, besides others. After Harman he went to the Shure Bros. and became responsible for the establishment of the communications section. 1991 he founded the Shure GmbH, today a flourishing company in Heilbronn. 1992 was the time of innovations: audio codecs and ISDN were still in children´s shoes but soon with the Dialog4 GmbH the product MusicTAXI became the replacement of the classic Telekom landline. ISO 9000 certification of the development and production was self-evident. By the end of 2001 a global distribution network was established. 2002 he sold all his assets from Dialog4 to CRL/Orban and moved into the managing-committee. He held this position until mid 2005.
Since 2006 he is the founder and CEO of the Swabian surrounTec™ loudspeaker manufactory GmbH, a company that concentrates all his skills and affections.