The Lenbrook Group is a privately held Canada-based owner of brand development and distribution interests in residential and commercial audio and communications technologies. Its internationally recognized brands include NAD Electronics, PSB Speakers, and Bluesound, serving the high-performance residential audio space; Bluesound Professional, for sophisticated networked streaming commercial audio solutions; and a growing portfolio of software platforms and technologies including BluOS, MQA, and SCL-6. Lenbrook also provides comprehensive sales and market development services to a portfolio of leading brands through Lenbrook distribution subsidiaries in Canada, USA, Latin America, and Asia Pacific.
THE COMPANY
The Lenbrook Group of Companies is comprised of five wholly owned subsidiaries, each specialized in delivering meaningful products and experiences to the customers they serve:
Lenbrook International houses the company’s brand development activities in the premium consumer and commercial audio segments, leading product and channel development activities for NAD Electronics, PSB Speakers, Bluesound, and Bluesound Professional.
Lenbrook Canada Solutions delivers a full line of two-way communications products in Canada through both traditional and non-traditional business-to-business verticals and trades. It is a major supplier to retailers, schools, security, commercial and industrial construction, and the hospitality and food industries.
Lenbrook Americas markets a full range of premium solutions for serious audio and video enthusiasts including the latest digital media players, home theatre components, loudspeakers, headphones and lifestyle systems. Lenbrook Americas represents brands like NAD Electronics, PSB Speakers, and Bluesound throughout the Americas, DALI Loudspeakers in the US and Canada, and Tivoli Audio in Canada only.
Lenbrook International houses the company’s brand development activities in the premium consumer and commercial audio segments, leading product and channel development activities for NAD Electronics, PSB Speakers, Bluesound, and Bluesound Professional.
Lenbrook Canada Solutions delivers a full line of two-way communications products in Canada through both traditional and non-traditional business-to-business verticals and trades. It is a major supplier to retailers, schools, security, commercial and industrial construction, and the hospitality and food industries.
Lenbrook Americas markets a full range of premium solutions for serious audio and video enthusiasts including the latest digital media players, home theatre components, loudspeakers, headphones and lifestyle systems. Lenbrook Americas represents brands like NAD Electronics, PSB Speakers, and Bluesound throughout the Americas, DALI Loudspeakers in the US and Canada, and Tivoli Audio in Canada only.
Lenbrook Asia, located in Singapore, manages sales, marketing and distribution activities for our NAD, PSB, and Bluesound brands throughout the Asia Pacific region. Our retail showroom in the heart of busy Singapore is designed to inspire Asia distributors and consumers to embrace the modern music listening experiences that our hi-fi brands offer.
Lenbrook Media Group was formed in 2023 to drive commercialization of its media management IP and platforms, including BluOS, MQA, and SCL6.
Lenbrook Asia, located in Singapore, manages sales, marketing and distribution activities for our NAD, PSB, and Bluesound brands throughout the Asia Pacific region. Our retail showroom in the heart of busy Singapore is designed to inspire Asia distributors and consumers to embrace the modern music listening experiences that our hi-fi brands offer.
Lenbrook Media Group was formed in 2023 to drive commercialization of its media management IP and platforms, including BluOS, MQA, and SCL6.
OUR BRANDS
Premium Consumer Audio
Bluesound
An alliance of audiophiles. We are the designers, engineers and individuals who have spent our lives in the music industry. Our founders helped pioneer HiFi in the 70s – innovation and the pursuit of perfection in audio runs deep in our collective DNA. Bluesound’s sole mission is to create innovative wireless audio products and technologies that allow for the most true-to-live performance music reproduction possible, utilizing the most advanced, state-of-the-art digital technology.
NAD Electronics
Founded in 1972 and now sold in over 80 countries, NAD Electronics is renowned for its award-winning line of high quality components for audio, home theatre and custom installation applications. Since the beginning, NAD’s commitment to four core values –innovation, simplicity, performance, and value – have earned it a cult-like following that catapulted it to becoming a household name amongst audiophiles and music lovers alike. To this day, the brand continues to design and manufacture some of the most acclaimed and affordable hi-fi components that include modern features and technologies meant to appeal to a new generation of audiophiles.
PSB Speakers
Since 1972, Founder and Chief Designer, Paul Barton, has been cementing his legacy as an expert in designing and building high-fidelity speakers that incorporate scientific principles in psychoacoustics. Almost 50 years later and now a strategic part of Lenbrook International’s global portfolio, PSB Speakers’ products are sold in more than 70 markets where the brand sets the standard for “True to Nature” sound and is critically acclaimed for its value-driven and non-fatiguing speaker design. With an expansive suite of products that include audiophile speakers, ANC headphones, powerful and musical subwoofers, and a family of installed speaker solutions, PSB Speakers is designed and built to bring life to recorded music at world class levels.
Bluesound
An alliance of audiophiles. We are the designers, engineers and individuals who have spent our lives in the music industry. Our founders helped pioneer HiFi in the 70s – innovation and the pursuit of perfection in audio runs deep in our collective DNA. Bluesound’s sole mission is to create innovative wireless audio products and technologies that allow for the most true-to-live performance music reproduction possible, utilizing the most advanced, state-of-the-art digital technology.
NAD Electronics
Founded in 1972 and now sold in over 80 countries, NAD Electronics is renowned for its award-winning line of high quality components for audio, home theatre and custom installation applications. Since the beginning, NAD’s commitment to four core values –innovation, simplicity, performance, and value – have earned it a cult-like following that catapulted it to becoming a household name amongst audiophiles and music lovers alike. To this day, the brand continues to design and manufacture some of the most acclaimed and affordable hi-fi components that include modern features and technologies meant to appeal to a new generation of audiophiles.
PSB Speakers
Since 1972, Founder and Chief Designer, Paul Barton, has been cementing his legacy as an expert in designing and building high-fidelity speakers that incorporate scientific principles in psychoacoustics. Almost 50 years later and now a strategic part of Lenbrook International’s global portfolio, PSB Speakers’ products are sold in more than 70 markets where the brand sets the standard for “True to Nature” sound and is critically acclaimed for its value-driven and non-fatiguing speaker design. With an expansive suite of products that include audiophile speakers, ANC headphones, powerful and musical subwoofers, and a family of installed speaker solutions, PSB Speakers is designed and built to bring life to recorded music at world class levels.
Distributed Commercial Audio Solutions
Bluesound Professional
Bluesound Professional is a fusion of hardware and software that is purpose-built for high performance networked audio for retail shops, bars, restaurants, hotels, gyms, and other commercial applications. End users can connect and control nearly any audio source, including streaming services, internet radio, or networked hard drives, while installers can confidently specify rack-mounted hardware that integrates seamlessly with smart controllers. Powered by BluOS, an award-winning multi-zone audio management software platform, made native in a comprehensive range of controllers, streamers, amplifiers, and speakers, Bluesound Professional makes commercial audio installation projects easy to configure, deliver, and use.
Content Management Platforms
BluOS
BluOS is a premium multi-room audio ecosystem that manages stored and cloud music sources and playback, with support for high-resolution audio streams up to 24/192. Adopted by some of the most renowned hifi audio brands and integrated with numerous smarthome and voice control systems, BluOS allows for interoperability among enabled devices across brands for maximum versatility and use cases. Integrations with popular streaming music services like Tidal, Spotify, and Deezer, as well as featuring support for FLAC, WAV, MQA, and other high-resolution formats and codecs, BluOS offers virtually unlimited access to music of all genres for any occasion. Made up of an operating system and a control application for smart phones, tablets, and PC desktops, BluOS is the ultimate choice for the modern audiophile.
MQA
MQA is a mastering and packaging codec for high resolution audio files, unique for its time-alignment function that preserve the accuracy and lifelike qualities of an acoustic musical performance. Offering a range of innovative tools and products for creators, streaming services and broadcasters, as well as audio device manufacturers and music lovers, MQA’s technologies cover the whole audio supply chain with the goal to retain the end-to-end provenance and quality of the original studio master.
BluOS
BluOS is a premium multi-room audio ecosystem that manages stored and cloud music sources and playback, with support for high-resolution audio streams up to 24/192. Adopted by some of the most renowned hifi audio brands and integrated with numerous smarthome and voice control systems, BluOS allows for interoperability among enabled devices across brands for maximum versatility and use cases. Integrations with popular streaming music services like Tidal, Spotify, and Deezer, as well as featuring support for FLAC, WAV, MQA, and other high-resolution formats and codecs, BluOS offers virtually unlimited access to music of all genres for any occasion. Made up of an operating system and a control application for smart phones, tablets, and PC desktops, BluOS is the ultimate choice for the modern audiophile.
MQA
MQA is a mastering and packaging codec for high resolution audio files, unique for its time-alignment function that preserve the accuracy and lifelike qualities of an acoustic musical performance. Offering a range of innovative tools and products for creators, streaming services and broadcasters, as well as audio device manufacturers and music lovers, MQA’s technologies cover the whole audio supply chain with the goal to retain the end-to-end provenance and quality of the original studio master.
About US
Established in 1978 by Canadian electronics industry veteran David S. Simmonds, The Lenbrook Group of Companies began as a national rep and wholesale distributor of electronics parts, audio equipment, and two-way radio products. Lenbrook’s roots run deep, having a foundation in the original import business started by David’s father, A.C. Simmonds, in 1918.
Through the decades, Lenbrook diversified further into solar power, telephone products, cellular and wireless phones products and services before it began its geographic expansion and the acquisition of a number of its own brands to complement its distribution business. Today, the company is a vertically-integrated diversified business with global reach, serving a number of business-to-business and direct-to-consumer customers.
Lenbrook’s experienced management team is led by President and CEO, Gordon A. Simmonds, and oversees global interests in distribution channel management, premium consumer and commercial audio brands, and a media development team building leadership in high resolution audio technology and licensing and music content delivery platforms.
Headquartered in Pickering, just east of Toronto, the Lenbrook Group accesses globally-minded talent and global markets, with 200+ team members cross key geographies. Deep channel partnerships help Lenbrook represent its products in over 80 markets covering verticals such as commercial two-way communications, premium consumer audio, distributed residential audio and commercial audio solutions. Its content distribution platforms and high-resolution audio encoding technologies serve the burgeoning streaming music industry.