The History of Heed Audio
The Heed Evolution

Heed Audio Ltd is a specialist hi-fi manufacturer in Hungary, led by chief designer Zsolt Huszti. He and his small team design and manufacture high-end products at reasonable prices.
The first Heed Audio product, a solid-state pre/power amplifier based on a unique circuit topology, was launched on the Hungarian and German markets in 1993. In 1991 Zsolt introduced his first creation, the StandART loudspeaker. Nearly 1,000 pairs of this floorstander were sold on the Hungarian market.
After meting Richard Hay, the legendary designer of Nytech, and later Ion Systems products, the compagny started to assemble on our premises the unique ‘shoebox-design’ Obelisk amps.
After Ion Systems went out of business, and keeping many of the unique ideas and technical principles of Richard Hay – use of balanced circuits, external power supplies, active crossovers, avoiding of DC coupling, and so on, Heed Audio had been formed. Whilst Ion’s famous amplifier, the Obelisk, found a second life in Heed Obelisk Pro, a new amp concept was also elaborated and realized alongside that. Based on one of Richard Hay’s brain-waves, the Heed Nexus power amplifiers were born – a second-to-none circuit topology in which a highly unusual bridge-mode approach has been used to avoid DC coupling and to realize a fully balanced “floating” system.

Heed Audio 2000
A new era began in 2000 when Heed audio launched successfully the Orbit PSU, which was originally designed for Zsolt’s DIY hi-fi magazine Hang & Technika (Sound & Technology), as a power-supply kit for Rega Planar turntables.

The success of the Orbit led Heed audio to develop further products: the Heed team designed another vinyl-related product, the Quasar phono stage.