MASS-kobo is the world's smallest professional audio equipment maker. Masanori Masuda, who lives by the creed "If it doesn't exist, build it," handles planning, design, manufacturing and sales himself.
In his early years as a PA engineer, he was not satisfied with the direct boxes most PA companies used, and built his own. When he lent one to a Tokyo recording studio, guitarist Masayoshi Takanaka used it on a session and loved the sound — leading to custom units for the Jungle Jane tour, his major debut.
Milestones
| 1997 | A one-off headphone amp for a U.S. bassist became the root of today's high-end and professional headphone amplifiers. |
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| 1997–2000 | Audio splitters adopted at the Kyoto climate conference and the Nagano Winter Olympics; nine units at the 2000 Okinawa summit. |
| 2003 | Condenser microphones launched after capsule development began in 2002. 26 broadcasters adopted them in year one. |
| 2015 | Ordered five of the new-generation splitters, later used to broadcast a historic speech in Hiroshima worldwide. |
| Dec 2024 | Moved the warehouse and workshop to Fujieda, Shizuoka. |
Every product shares astonishing low noise, uncolored sound that never calls attention to itself, vast dynamic range and unrivaled reliability. We will keep building the ultimate analog audio equipment.
