Small company.
Unfashionably patient.
We make one category of product and we have never made anything else. That is the whole strategy, and it has taken nineteen years.
It started with
a hearing test.
In 2007 three engineers were building diagnostic equipment for hearing clinics. The work was unglamorous and the tolerances were brutal: a wrong measurement meant a wrong prescription.
They bought a pair of well-reviewed hi-fi speakers out of curiosity and measured them against the clinic's reference rig. The result was so far from the marketing claims that they filed it as a bug in their own test setup. It was not a bug.
NOVA exists to close that gap. Every product we ship is measured the way that clinic would have measured it — in a room, with a person sitting in it.
Four rules we do not break.
These are the ones that cost us money. They are also the reason people keep buying the second and third product.
Specs we can defend
Every number on a product page is measured the way we say it is. Battery life is quoted at 60% volume with ANC on, not idle.
Built to be opened
Replaceable drivers, batteries and amplifier modules, plus a published teardown guide for every model we have ever made.
Room before bench
A product that measures beautifully and sounds wrong in a living room is a failed product. The chamber is a tool, not the goal.
Support for a decade
Firmware updates and spare parts for ten years after a product stops shipping. A 2014 Column still receives them today.
Boring numbers,
deliberately published.
People
118 of them in acoustics and DSP.
Repairable mass
By weight, across the 2026 range.
Recycled plastics
Rising to 80% across all enclosures by 2029.
Parts commitment
From the day a model is discontinued.
Nobody has ever asked me for a speaker that measures well. They ask for one that makes them want to listen for another hour. Those are different problems, and only one of them is interesting.
How we got here.
Three engineers, one rig
Founded in Copenhagen with borrowed measurement equipment and a single room.
Rotterdam assembly
In-house assembly opens, so tolerances stop being a supplier conversation.
Repair programme
Spare parts and teardown guides published for the entire back catalogue.
Pulse One ships
340 people, 24 countries, and still only one product category.
We are slow, careful and hiring.
Fourteen open roles across acoustics, embedded software and supply chain. We read every application ourselves — no keyword filters.