About the Founder

Harry Yeung, MSc in Acoustics Engineering.

With years of experience working as an architectural acoustic consultant and R&D engineer for a few UK audio brands (including Celestion, Monitor Audio and KEF), Harry designed EISA award-winning products and the first THX-Dominus certified product in the UK. With his passion and design philosophy, he ventured out and created Audio First Designs. Harry still works as a project consultant for some audio brands nowadays.

To read a more complete story of the founder you can see this article: The Story of What I Love and the Beginning of Audio First Designs

About our philosophy

We believe high-fidelity products should be designed with proper engineering, and evaluated through both measurements and long-term listening.

Measurements can only get one so far. Any experienced designer understands that there is no such thing as a perfect objective design target. One has to listen and make design choices. Each choice always means a compromise on another aspect. At the end of the day, the priorities and compromises one prefers would contribute to the so-called "sound signature" of the products. And that... is a bit of an art.

We strive to create products that render recordings as faithfully as possible by keeping the unwanted distortion in the signal chain - be it linear or non-linear - as low as possible. Beyond that, for any unavoidable anomalies, we take the balance that we find the most enjoyable to listen to with our experience in music.

This is our way in the science and art of electroacoustic design.