Interesting. Never heard of that company before?!
Vorzüge is a german word meaning something between asset(s) and advantage(s). Maybe nearer advantages. Their slogan means ‘quantum leap by innovation‘, may be they wanted to say ‘leading by innovation‘ or something like that.
So a german company I never heard of? Arouses curiosity. (Positively)
No german website. Ok, maybe they are more interested in the international market. Linnenberg did so When they sold more of their stuff internationally than in their home country.
But… my little middle european home country is called ‘Headphone Land‘ by every headphone company‘s salesman. Even in New York I haven’t seen this much headphones/squaremeter. (No offense meant, if possible at all to take it as one.) So why miss the market?
Ok, DuckDuckGo, the big G, and the other usual suspects have to find answers.
A guy named Keith Ong founded a company in Stuttgart in 2013. Interesting, I found (positive!) reviews written in 2014/2015 referring to products of 2011. The company moved to Böblingen (20 km/ 12,5 mi) in 2017. In September 2019 the company was liquidated. The products were made in Singapore. I didn’t find where or something about Mr. Ong in my few minutes of investigation. Moon Audio doesn‘t sell Vorzüge any more. There still is the website where you can order the products directly. Currently with X-Mas offers.
When you read my post(s) you can easily ‘detect‘ that I‘m no native speaker. (And please do never refer to my poor school/autodidactic English.) Polite readers will find this usage of words sometimes …a bit strange. (Thanks for your kindness.)
It was this feeling about the usage of german words by Vorzüge, that made me curious.
That this might not be a (real/any more) german company has no meaning. Look at A&K. iRiver was connected to ‘mp3-Player‘ so, why not take a British sounding name with the better sounding stuff? (Astell is french-based British, Kern is Saxon.) By the way, Germans dig for British sounding Hi-Fi company names. (And smile at the Hi-Fi-Man and Lux-Man with their capes flying to protect the innocent…
) Names. OK, let’s talk about some Schiit.
Back to the story: Vorzüge has some good reviews, even at head-fi.org, their products were once sold by Moon Audio.
In terms of warranty it feels somewhat risky to have only the website forms, no company history, not a single name, no picture of the team, office… designing/production process?
(And I personally
hate not knowing what DAC is used…)
But the most important question is:
How does it sound, connected to a Grado headphone?