Finland

Finland's contribution is the active monitor. Finnish makers committed early and completely to putting the amplifier and the crossover inside the box, and later to DSP correction of the room, at a time when the rest of the industry still treated active designs as a professional curiosity. Behind that sits a serious national research base in acoustics and psychoacoustics, and a measurement culture that treats the anechoic chamber as the starting point of a design rather than the last check before shipping.